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POLITICAL CARTOONS

Browse Behind the Lines, our annual exhibition celebrating the year's best political cartoons.

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Visitors looking at the framed cartoons on the walls

STORIES

A very Fraser Christmas!

A very Fraser Christmas!

Late 1970s and early 1980s fashion are on full display in these Christmas cards!

Breaking up is hard to do: secession in Australia

Breaking up is hard to do: secession in Australia

How Australian states could become more independent.

Anzac Day at the provisional Parliament House

Anzac Day at the provisional Parliament House

Where ANZAC Day was commemorated before the Australian War Memorial was built.

A doctor in the house? Five doctors who served in the Commonwealth Parliament

A doctor in the house? Five doctors who served in the Commonwealth Parliament

Politicians who could call themselves 'doctor'.

Indigenous women artists: Leah King-Smith and Andrea Fisher

Indigenous women artists: Leah King-Smith and Andrea Fisher