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Discover Billy Hughes's role in the peace treaty negotiations.
Practical resources and ideas to use in the classroom across civics and citizenship, media literacy and more.
Support your students to become active citizens in the very place history was made.
Examine four political cartoons from the First World War about Billy Hughes.
Join a brand-new Civics and Citizenship program for regional classrooms.
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