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Your guide to the voting method we use in Australia.
Common terms explained.
Barbecue snags and voting explained.
Hear audio descriptions of political cartoons from Behind the Lines exhibitions.
Australians were asked to vote on whether men in National Service could be deployed to fight in World War One.
Australians were asked to pick a song for the national anthem in 1977.
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