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A wooden chair with cherry red leather seat cushion and back, and square legs with protective brass caps on the base of each leg.

Dining room chair

A workhorse chair you can still sit on today.

A bright orange long-sleeved skivvy with the words 'It's time' in big black font on the front.

It's time skivvy

A rallying cry: 'It's time'.

A selection of rail tickets with hand written cursive text and a blue leather wallet.

Ethel Bruce's rail pass and tickets to the opening of Parliament House

First class travel for the wife of the prime minister.

A photograph of the Prime Ministers office

Prime minister's desk

An expanse of desktop.

a photograph of the ABC studio

Old Parliament House

Parliamentary Broadcasting and ABC Studio

Discover where the debates, drama and business of parliament was broadcast.

The Speaker's Chair is a large wooden ornate chair with green leather.

Speaker's Chair

Speaks to Australian democracy's deep ties to the United Kingdom.

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A light taupe plastic Multifone phone with 16 red buttons, 2 green buttons and a manual hand dial. The receiver sits on the side with a curly rubber cord.

Multifone telephone used by William McMahon

Lift the handle and listen for the dial tone.

A close up of a timber staircase with dappled light. The railings feature white posts with an art-deco style design.

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A brown old coin with the words three pence on the front. There is a hole in the middle of the coin with a wreath that goes around the hole.

Threepenny internment camp tokens

A different kind of currency.

A light brown toy koala with fluffy ears, a worn black leather nose and a red and green tartan ribbon tied around its neck. The toy is sitting with its arms outstretched.

Toy koala

A beloved toy koala gifted to Australia's 100,000th British post-war migrant.

An office at Old Parliament House with red carpet, a large wooden desk, red leather chairs, wood panelled-walls and a book case.

This black and white photograph shows the layout of the Clerk of the Senate’s office in 1985 when it was occupied by Alan Cumming Thom. The timber-panelled room contains a large desk (originally designed by the building’s architect, John Smith Murdoch), glass-fronted built-in bookshelves and a sideboard with an indoor plant. There are a range of visitor chairs and an easy chair in the foreground.

Old Parliament House

Clerk of the Senate's Office

See the Clerk of the Senate's office as it was on the day of the 1975 dismissal.