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    Wed 6 Jan 2016
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    ‘Woman wrecker’: A suffragette’s story

    Seen the film Suffragette? Meet Charlotte Blacklock, a suffragette who was willing to put her body, her mind, her very existence on the line for women’s rights to participate in public and political life.

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    Fri 31 Oct 2014
    Campbell Rhodes

    Crisis 1914: a manufactured crisis

    With the fabrication finalised, and all the objects chosen and ready to go, it was time for the last task: installation.

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    Mon 20 Oct 2014
    Campbell Rhodes

    Crisis 1914: designing a crisis

    In the second of a series of ‘behind the scenes’ blog posts, Campbell Rhodes shares some of the experiences and challenges of putting this exhibition together.

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    Fri 23 May 2014
    Libby Stewart

    What does it take to get the vote!!

    If you were a woman in England at the beginning of the 20th century it took march after march, demonstration after demonstration, hunger strike after hunger strike.

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    Fri 4 Apr 2014
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    How to change laws and influence people

    In 1895, South Australia became the first place in the world to give women both the right to vote and to stand as candidates for election. We are proud to now have on display in our Designing Democracy gallery a section of the petition that helped make history.

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    Tue 3 Dec 2013
    Campbell Rhodes

    Party Games

    In a series of blog posts, the museum’s curatorial team will take visitors on a journey through many of its collection treasures that have not been seen before.

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    Mon 4 Mar 2013
    Libby Stewart

    Celebrating women

    On 8 March the Museum of Australian Democracy celebrates International Women’s Day. This year marks some significant anniversaries for women in the political sphere and there is no better place in Canberra to mark these events than at the museum, located in Old Parliament House.

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    Fri 23 Mar 2012
    Libby Stewart

    MoAD celebrates women’s achievements in Women’s History Month

    March is Women’s History Month and the museum is celebrating women’s achievements in a number of ways.

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    Fri 10 Feb 2012
    Libby Stewart

    ‘Votes for Women’ suffragette stockings

    Recently the museum added to its collection of suffragette items a very personal piece of clothing; a pair of black stockings embroidered with the suffragette slogan ‘Votes for Women’.

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    Wed 14 Dec 2011
    Libby Stewart

    Women’s leadership takes a front seat at the museum

    For two days in the first week of December this year, over ninety delegates listened, debated and argued as the Women, Leadership and Democracy in Australia conference unfolded at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House.

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    4 minute read

    Wed 7 Sep 2011
    Libby Stewart

    Suffragette hunger strike medal

    In recent months the museum has acquired a rare and important new suffragette item: a hunger strike medal belonging to British woman Charlotte Blacklock.

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    Mon 22 Aug 2011
    Libby Stewart

    The Pank-A-Squith board game

    The museum has recently acquired an exciting new object which will help us tell the story of how women in Britain acquired the vote.

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    Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House

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    PO Box 3934
    Manuka ACT 2603

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