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Close up of a red velvet curtin falling to a red carpeted floor with a timber furniture panel next to it.

Access to information

Edmund Barton in Venice with Jane Barton and others
History

The strange provenance of the Fairfax collection

Why researching the origins of information matters.

Prime Minister Bob Hawke and (future prime minister) Paul Keating sit behind a microphone at an Australian Labor Party conference.

Eight ways an Australian prime minister can lose the top job

How the head of the government can lose their position.

Dr Brendan Nelson, wearing a suit and spotted tie, holding a 'Winfield' cigarette box in one hand and a 'Ratsak' box in the other.
History

A doctor in the house? Five doctors who served in the Commonwealth Parliament

Politicians who could call themselves 'doctor'.

A large crowd of people and press stand below and on the steps of Parliament House after the dismissal of the Whitlam government.
Guided tours

Dismissed Tour

The story of an extraordinary political moment and how it unfolded.

A collage of Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser in front of crowds outside Old Parliament House.

50 years since the dismissal

Everything you need to know about the 1975 dismissal.

A black badge with 'Kerr must go' text in orange and a blue badge with 'Turn on the lights' text in white.
Collection

Badges from the 1975 federal election campaign

Maintaining the rage and turning on the lights.

A black and white record cover in Greek and the record.
Collection

1975 Labor campaign record in Greek

Reaching out to Greek Australians.

Front page of the proclamation dissolving parliament in 1975.
Collection

Proclamation dissolving the parliament, 1975

Proclaiming the dismissal.

A wooden boomerang featuring a design of small boomerangs and a kangaroo. A wooden boomerang with a plaque presented to Robert (Bob) Hawke from US President Ronald Regan after the boomerang went into space on Space Shuttle Challenger, 1984.
Collection

Boomerang from Space Shuttle Challenger

A symbol of Australia in space.

A long white building, Old Parliament House, with a dark sky and the moon in the background.
Guided tours

Paranormal Investigations of Old Parliament House

Are you game to discover if Old Parliament House is haunted?

Three people read panels in the Democracy Are You In exhibit in Old Parliament House.

Democracy Are You In? credits