August 31, 2010
THE GIFTS OF THE FURIES
by Glenda Cloughley
Musical Director – Johanna McBride
Experience the beautiful sound of more than 80 voices as they fill King’s Hall and the House of Representatives Chamber at the Museum of Austra…
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August 23, 2010
Hung Parliament
Australia’s only hung parliament* in the first century of Federation resulted from the wartime election of 1940. During the next three years successive minority…
August 20, 2010
Dancing with the Prime Minister
On a winter’s evening in 1968, Prime Minister John Gorton made history by dancing with a young Aboriginal girl at the first national Aboriginal debutante ball. The…
August 06, 2010
APMC collection goes online!
Details of almost 6000 books from the Australian Prime Ministers Centre (APMC) collection are now available online. Catalogue entries for these publications have…
July 21, 2010
The Caretaker Conventions in Australia
On the evening of Monday, 19 July, the House of Representatives and half the Senate were dissolved, writs were issued for a general election, and both the federal…