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These activity ideas support caring for the local environment, decision making and being you.
Listen to historic moments from the House of Representatives.
Discover some of the items that have been unexpectedly discovered in the museum.
Listen to a rare recording of a speech by Stanley Bruce in 1929.
Support your students to become active citizens in the very place history was made.
Learn about Adela Pankhurst’s suffrage activism and her mistakes.
How women corrected an old planning oversight at Old Parliament House.
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