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Inspire the next generation of active, informed citizens.
Help us shape the next 100 years of democracy.
Recreating the Clerk of the Senate's office to evoke 1975.
Old Parliament House was the home of Australia's government from 1927 to 1988.
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Conserving press photographer Graeme 'Bluey' Thomson's collection.
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