Dr Barry York was a historian at MoAD.
In 1968, Lionel Rose became the first Aboriginal Australian to win a world championship.
20 December 2017 marks the centenary of Australia’s second plebiscite on conscription.
On 8 February 1967, Gough Whitlam was elected leader of the Australian Labor Party.
Of the twelve members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) sentenced in 1916 for conspiracy, none is more fascinating than Donald MacLellan Grant.
The ‘Sydney Twelve’ were members of an organisation known as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) who were arrested in Sydney on 23 September 1916 and charged with ‘treason felony’.
The Maltese ‘children of Billy Hughes’ were a group of 214 Maltese migrants who arrived during Australia’s conscription plebiscite campaign a century ago.
In 1973, Australia’s voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 by the Labor Government headed by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
Long-serving Liberal Member of Parliament Ian Macfarlane's move from the Liberal Party to the Nationals in 2015 highlighted the fact that, at the time, the Australian Government was based on a coalition.
The 24th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting – or CHOGM – was held in Malta from 27 to 29 November 2015.
In 2015, Australia had two royal commissions under way: the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption.
The Museum of Australian Democracy acknowledges Australia's First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We respectfully acknowledge the role that First Nations people continue to play in shaping Australia's democracy. We also acknowledge the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the region in which MoAD is located.
