Ideas and resources
The Museum of Australian Democracy has many useful resources online including 110 documents which played a key role in the foundation of Australian democracy and an online timeline outlining milestones and figures that influenced the development of democratic ideas, laws and institutions.
Here are some ideas, including some suggestions from our collection to help you get started. This list is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way compulsory. Where relevant we have included links to information on our website.
- Bob Brown and the Franklin River Debate
- Tim Flannery
- Wangari Maathai
- Bob Dylan
- Malala Yousafzai
- Margaret Fisher
- Edith Cowan
- William Wilberforce; the end of the British Slave Trade
- Charlie Perkins and the Freedom Ride
- Gough Whitlam
- The Arab Spring
- Magna Carta
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Malcom Fraser