Libby Stewart was a former historian at MoAD.
The 2018 theme for NAIDOC week was 'Because of her, we can!' Let's take a look at the work of two contemporary Indigenous women artists.
Lin Onus, together with his non-Indigenous collaborator Michael Eather, and his son Tiriki, have produced a series of remarkable artworks, The Ongoing Adventures of X and Ray.
While democracy isn’t usually synonymous with romance, we have a few gems in our collection that get right to the heart of politics…
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.
For several years in the late 1920s and 1930s, before the opening of the Australian War Memorial, the provisional Parliament House was the focus of Anzac Day ceremonies in Canberra.
At the beginning of March 2012 a Queensland Times newspaper read 'Slipper tally: 26 pollies ejected', and a few days later a headline in the Age shouted 'The revenge of Peter Slipper'.
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.
