Ideas and resources to get you started
The Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD) 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.
Individual or community
- Australian Prime Ministers
- Australian Human Rights Commission
- United Nations Association of Australia
Event, discovery or invention
- 1967 Referendum
- First World War – 1916 and 1917 conscription referendums
- Compulsory voting
- First printing press
- The Petrov Affair
- Dismissed! Whitlam, Fraser, Kerr and the story of 1975
Historical document, artwork or musical piece
- Songs of Influence featured in MoAD’s Living Democracy exhibition
- I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green) by John Schumann
- Wear Your Colours – Badges from the MoAD collection
- Yirrkala Bark Petitions (1963)
- Michael Cook, Indigenous artist
- Behind the Lines: Political cartooning resources
- Art is a Weapon
- Magna Carta and Modern Australia