Help your hive thrive
How can we better support local bees?
Bees are so important to the environment. This matrix will help support young people to consider how they can take positive steps in their everyday lives to help bees thrive.
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Bees are so important to the environment. This matrix will help support young people to consider how they can take positive steps in their everyday lives to help bees thrive.
Learn about the First Nations' experience of democracy.
Listen to the stories about the prime ministers' wives.
Music with a message.
Personal writing from PM Alfred Deakin.
Encourage students to reflect on migration and explore their own family history.
The powers and duties of the governor-general explained.
The Museum of Australian Democracy acknowledges Australia's First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We respectfully acknowledge the role that First Nations people continue to play in shaping Australia's democracy. We also acknowledge the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the region in which MoAD is located.
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