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    Fri 27 Sep 2013
    Campbell Rhodes

    The last Australian filibuster

    News-watchers might have heard about US Senator Ted Cruz and his 21-hour long filibuster to the Senate on September 24. The last filibuster in the Australian Parliament was in 1918 when ALP Senator Albert Gardiner spoke for over 12 hours.

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    Wed 25 Sep 2013
    Dr Barry York

    From the Oral History collection: Hon. Don Page MP

    The Hon. Don Page MP has held the seat of Ballina for the Nationals in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 1988. He became Minister for Local Government, and Minister for the North Coast in 2011.

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    Mon 16 Sep 2013
    Kate Armstrong

    How do you move a 182 room building? Carefully. Very carefully.

    Ever wanted to play out your very own Gulliver’s Travels adventure complete with Lilliputian buildings, trees, people and vehicles? This month in the museum we found our inner child as we very carefully moved our two 1:100 scale architectural models to a new exhibition space.

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    Thu 12 Sep 2013
    Libby Stewart

    United Nations International Day of Democracy

    On 15th September the museum will be celebrating the United Nations International Day of Democracy. This day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007, when it ‘encouraged governments to strengthen national programs devoted to the promotion and consolidation of democracy’.

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    Mon 9 Sep 2013
    Campbell Rhodes

    Two new MoAD websites

    The museum now has two brand new websites, showing off aspects of our art collection. One concerns the work of John Frith, the other the work of a Melbourne socialist art community.

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    Tue 3 Sep 2013
    Dr Barry York

    Chris Puplick visits Old Parliament House

    In July this year, the museum was honoured by a visit from former Senator, Chris Puplick AM. Mr Puplick was greeted by Daryl Karp, Director of the Museum, and Libby Stewart, Senior Historian. Mr Puplick was accompanied by Larry Galbraith, who is Senior Policy Adviser to Clover Moore, the Lord Mayor of Sydney.

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    Tue 27 Aug 2013
    Libby Stewart

    Julia Gillard and the museum

    The museum recently acquired a rather lovely new item: a photo of Prime Minister Julia Gillard, taken by 12 year-old Sophie Deane, which now forms part of the museum’s digital collection.

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    Wed 14 Aug 2013
    Dr Barry York

    From the Oral History collection: Jeffrey Frith

    We have a new and significant collection of original cartoons and sculptures by John Frith (1906-2000), one of Australia’s most prolific and celebrated cartoonists and artists. Hear an interview with Jeffrey Frith, John’s son, discussing the techniques and approaches that his father took to his cartoon art.

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    Fri 19 Jul 2013
    Noel Lane

    Replacing like with like—a handblown lightshade for the Member’s Dining Room

    We recently had the opportunity to travel to Aldgate in the Adelaide Hills to document master glassblower Tim Shaw creating a new lightshade which is to play a part in the Members’ Dining Room refresh project.

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    Mon 8 Jul 2013
    Libby Stewart

    Neville Bonner at Old Parliament House

    This Thursday 11 July the museum will celebrate NAIDOC week with a look at the life of the first Indigenous Member of Parliament, Neville Bonner. Senior Historian Libby Stewart will talk about the early life and parliamentary career of this extraordinary man in a talk illustrated with images and objects owned by Neville Bonner, now held in the museum’s collections.

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    Fri 5 Jul 2013
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    Our shout

    We’ve just made some changes to the ‘light-hearted gallery’ within our Prime Ministers of Australia exhibition. This gallery features objects that demonstrate how Australians revere, revile or ridicule our leaders. Although many objects were created with a certain irreverence, they also document national events and concerns.

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    Thu 20 Jun 2013
    Campbell Rhodes

    Oh Errol!—what does Errol Flynn have to do with democracy?

    June 20 marks the 104th anniversary of the birth of Errol Flynn, the Tasmanian actor who became the biggest Hollywood star of his day. Star of such movies as Robin Hood, Captain Blood, The Prince and the Pauper and In the Wake of the Bounty, Flynn was born in Tasmania in 1909, the son of a prominent university professor and biologist.

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    Thu 13 Jun 2013
    Alex Flannery

    The best laid plans of Murdoch and the Department of Works and Railways

    For the last couple of months I have been sequestered away in the museum bunker poring over and cataloguing more than 600 architectural plans. The plans trace the design, building and evolution of Old Parliament House from 1921 until 1988.

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    Mon 27 May 2013
    Sharon Towns

    Physical conservation of building structures at Kakadu National Park

    From the 14 to 20 April I had the opportunity to participate in a five day course with the Institute for Professional Practice in the Arts and Heritage, ANU held at Kakadu National Park. Wondering what tropical climates and timber buildings would hold in store for our nationally listed ‘people’s’ house, I admit to being wonderfully surprised.

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    Tue 21 May 2013
    Brian Leadbeatter

    Safe was not safe

    My colleague, Beck Moloney, recently posted a blog about the stationery cupboard that was originally a part of a strong room here in this heritage building. Beck included some photographs of the space, including one of a sign cautioning people not to put keys into the safe and close the door.

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    Wed 15 May 2013
    Dr Barry York

    From the Oral History collection: Barrie Virtue

    Between 1964 and 1984, Barrie Virtue OBE served as press secretary, private secretary and principal private secretary to the Rt. Hon. Doug Anthony. Matters relating to trade were among his highest priorities during this period.

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    Fri 10 May 2013
    Beck Moloney

    Secret squirrel stationery

    I’ve been working at the museum for over 18 months now and, though I’ve become accustomed to the building’s rabbit warren-like layout and (sometimes) pokey rooms, one place that has continued to pique my interest is the room where we keep our office stationery.

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    Tue 7 May 2013
    Karen Hogan

    Margaret Thatcher and Malcolm Fraser in Canberra

    I was recently having breakfast at home reading the Canberra Times (10 April 2013) report of the death of British Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher. The article included a series of photos documenting Mrs Thatcher’s life. One of the photos caught my interest. The caption read ‘Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and British PM Margaret Thatcher in Canberra’ 1st July 1979.

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    Wed 1 May 2013
    Dr Barry York

    From the Oral History collection: Earle Page

    This is a rather different item from our Oral History collection: a recording of a radio campaign speech rather than an edited excerpt from an interview. In this broadcast, Sir Earle Page GCMG MP (1880-1961), who had been Deputy Prime Minister since 1923, sees industrial relations as the main issue for the 1929 election.

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    Mon 22 Apr 2013
    Libby Stewart

    Anzac Day at the provisional Parliament House

    For several years in the late 1920s and 1930s, before the opening of the Australian War Memorial, the provisional Parliament House (now the Museum of Australian Democracy) was the focus of Anzac Day ceremonies in Canberra.

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