Books Explaining the News for Kids

1916: Conscription

Australians were asked to vote on whether men in National Service could be deployed to fight in World War One.

Cartoonists

Browse all cartoonists featured in Behind the Lines.

'We've been sacked': the 1975 Whitlam government dismissal

For the first time in Australian history, a governor-general dismissed a prime minister and government.

1928: State debts

The 1928 referendum asked Australians to change the way finances were managed by the Commonwealth and states.

1967: Indigenous affairs

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