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    Mon 25 Mar 2019
    Jessica Curtain

    The Last Moments collection: a treasure trove of stories

    How does a set of old photos hold the power to transform a visitor’s experience of our building?

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    Tue 9 May 2017
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    The Thieving Diva: Behind the scenes of the opening ceremony at Parliament House

    Hilda Abbott was a distinguished guest whose recollections reveal that behind the public performance, VIPs are only people after all.

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    Tue 2 May 2017
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    Flags, snags and bags: Putting the finishing touches on the opening of Parliament House

    It took determination, ingenuity and a small piece of string to get Parliament House finished in time for its grand opening in 1927.

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    Fri 11 Mar 2016

    WW1 history illuminated on Old Parliament House

    Pause at Old Parliament House after dark during Enlighten this weekend and you may see an expanse of somber, sepia-toned faces staring back at you.

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    Thu 10 Mar 2016

    Bunnies and aliens...stunning and vibrant, but what do they mean?

    Wondering what the Old Parliament House Enlighten 2016 projections mean? This handy guide gives you the low-down on the Old Parliament House Enlighten projections and what they signify.

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    Tue 15 Dec 2015
    Ashley Tenison

    Political barometer unsteady! Temperature’s rising in parliament…

    Measuring temperatures and predicting weather changes in a politically turbulent climate for years, the weather station in the heart of Old Parliament House has recently undergone conservation treatment.

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    Thu 12 Nov 2015
    Libby Stewart

    So ends the #Dismissal1975 project

    Since 13 October the museum has been running its Twitter project, #Dismissal1975, to commemorate the Whitlam sacking.

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    Mon 12 Oct 2015
    Paul Daley

    Forty years since the Dismissal

    As a student of politics and later as a political journalist, the Dismissal was a constant reference point – an Australian moment that has attracted, perhaps, more scholarship, journalism and cultural reflection than just about any other.

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    Tue 29 Sep 2015
    Dr Barry York

    From the oral history collection: Mary Riek

    Mary Riek was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1927. Mary worked in the Parliamentary Library in 1948 and again in 1966-67.

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    Mon 14 Sep 2015
    Dr Barry York

    Old Parliament House: an integral part of Australia’s immigration and refugee story

    Most of Australia’s migrant and refugee intake has been a product of decisions announced and debated in the Old Parliament House, when it was home to the federal parliament from 1927 to 1988.

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    Wed 15 Apr 2015
    Dr Barry York

    From the oral history collection: Anne Lynch (1946-2009)

    Anne Lynch was the first female Deputy Clerk of the Australian Senate.

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    Tue 31 Mar 2015
    Nanette Louchart-Fletcher

    Play Up launch—Adele’s speech

    It’s not many twelve year olds who can say that their words have been collected by a national cultural institution but that is exactly what has happened to Adele, a student from Telopea Park School.

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    Mon 23 Mar 2015
    Libby Stewart

    “Inspirational to the end”: some kind words for Malcolm Fraser

    Since news broke of the passing of former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser last Friday, 20th March, the museum has been a place where visitors and passers-by have come to leave messages in a condolence book.

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    Thu 26 Feb 2015
    Dr Barry York

    From the oral history collection: Marcie Cowell (1930-2011)

    Marcie Cowell moved to Canberra in 1946 and worked as a telephonist for six months at Parliament House. Here she talks about the nature of her work on the switchboards.

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    Mon 12 Jan 2015
    Dr Barry York

    From the oral history collection: Marjorie Johnson

    In this oral history excerpt, Marjorie Johnson talks about her father who was a gardener and ‘ganger’ of workers on the preparation of the National Rose Garden at the front of Parliament House in the 1930s.

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    Mon 15 Dec 2014
    Campbell Rhodes

    Vale Reg Withers

    November 15 saw the death of former Fraser government minister Reginald Greive ‘Reg’ Withers at the age of 90.

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    Mon 24 Nov 2014
    Dr Barry York

    Jean Salisbury, OAM (1922-2014)

    Jean Salisbury was born in Melbourne in 1922 and died in Canberra in 2014.

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    Wed 5 Nov 2014
    Kate Armstrong

    Tributes for Whitlam

    Within hours of Gough Whitlam’s death on 21 October tributes were reverentially laid on the front steps of historic Old Parliament House.

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    Tue 28 Oct 2014
    Dr Barry York

    Harry Evans (1946-2014)

    Harry Evans was the longest serving Clerk of the Senate, serving from 1988 to 2009. Born at Lithgow in 1946, he died in Canberra on 7 September 2014.

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    Tue 21 Oct 2014
    Paul Daley

    Journalist and author Paul Daley reflects on Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC

    Journalist and author Paul Daley reflects on Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC

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    Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House

    18 King George Terrace, Parkes, ACT 2600, Australia

    PO Box 3934
    Manuka ACT 2603

    9am to 5pm daily 
    Closed Christmas Day

    ABN: 30 620 774 963

    Telephone: 02 6270 8222

    Enquiries:
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    Please note: video surveillance is used 24 hours a day around and throughout the building and may be used for research purposes

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