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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

How Billy Hughes lost the 1916 conscription referendum

How Billy Hughes lost the 1916 conscription referendum

A look at the reasons why Australia didn't adopt conscription during the First World War.

Remembering Elizabeth II in the halls of Old Parliament House

Remembering Elizabeth II in the halls of Old Parliament House

The close connections between Elizabeth II and the history of Old Parliament House.

The Denmans in British Australia: cultured and courteous with nothing to do

The Denmans in British Australia: cultured and courteous with nothing to do

The experience of Australia's fifth governor-general.

Moving house

Moving house