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Ideas and resources to get you started

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 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

• Prime Ministers

  • Australian Prime Ministers
  • Australian Federal Election Speeches

• Women

  • Women get the vote – MoAD – Milestones in Australian Democracy
  • First women in federal parliament – MoAD – Milestones in Australian Democracy
  • MoAD Blog post – Agitators, suffragettes and spies: 7 women you should know

• Indigenous Australians

  • Finders Keepers - personal objects as primary sources – Neville Bonner
  • Yes: The Ongoing Story of the 1967 Referendum
  • Celebrating 50 years since Wave Hill

Event, discovery or invention

• Federation

  • Getting it Together – From Colonies to Federation

• First World War – 1916 and 1917 conscription referendums

  • Billy Hughes at War
  • MoAD Blog post – Would you vote for conscription? Five objects to help you decide

• Compulsory voting

  • MoAD – Milestones in Australian Democracy

• Dismissed! Whitlam, Fraser, Kerr and the story of 1975

• The Franklin River Debate 1983

• The Republic referendum

  • MoAD – Milestones in Australian Democracy

Historical document, artwork or musical piece

• Magna Carta and Modern Australia

• I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green) by John Schumann

  • MoAD Blog post – Songs of influence

• Wear Your Colours – Badges from the MoAD collection

• Yirrkala Bark Petitions (1963)

  • MoAD – Milestones in Australian Democracy

• Behind the Lines 2017: The year’s best political cartoons

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