Democracy Matters
Democracy Matters and a democratic system can only work when its citizens participate!
Defining democracy
Designing democracy
- Exploring democracy – an online timeline outlining milestones and figures that influenced the development of democratic ideas, law and institutions
- Documenting a Democracy: our founding documents – 110 documents that shaped our nation
Democracy. Are you in?
Our new exhibition Democracy. Are you in? explores increasing levels of dissatisfaction, and decreasing levels of trust in our politicians and democratic institutions. Worldwide, there are now more regimes than there are democracies. Australia’s is one of the best in the world but we can’t be complacent – imagine life without it.
Our democracy needs us. Are you in?