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Rest tired feet after museum exploring or get your morning coffee fix on your way to work.
Join Tim on this after-dark tour, snooping around the secret spaces of Old Parliament House.
Royal responsibilities and how Elizabeth II performed some of them.
The well-populated story behind the election of a party leader.
What is democracy?
This plaque signifies Dorothy Margaret Tangney becoming Australia's first woman senator.
The Museum of Australian Democracy acknowledges Australia's First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We respectfully acknowledge the role that First Nations people continue to play in shaping Australia's democracy. We also acknowledge the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the region in which MoAD is located.
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