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MP John Brumby (left) and Prime Minister Bob Hawke (centre) join colleagues in the Senate Committee Room for a beer and a laugh.

Prime Minister Bob Hawke stands and cuts a square cake, surrounded by a group of men all smiling.

We’re gonna party like it’s 1988!

How the move to Australian Parliament House was celebrated.

Fresh prawns sat on ice

Don’t come the raw prawn with me

How the 'Gair Affair' unfolded.

A combined computer, keyboard and telephone handset with a black monitor screen.

Hanging on the Computerphone

The intriguing story of a 1980s technological marvel.

Map section of New South Wales showing the borders of its federal seats.

What is a redistribution?

Why the Australian Electoral Commission has to reassess electorate boundaries.

A woman, Justice Roma Mitchell sits at a desk covered in papers, in front of a bookshelf filled with bound volumes.

What does a state governor do?

A closer look at the role of State Governors in Australia.

Nancy Wake is at a desk holding papers. She is looking across at another woman who is writing.

Agitators, suffragettes and spies: 7 women you should know

How these women left their mark on Australian democracy.

Lionel Rose is dressed in boxing gear. He is looking at a punching bag.

Lionel Rose's world championship 50 years on

Lionel Rose: boxing world title holder.

Reg Edwards watched Kevin Rudd’s Apology on screens on Federation Mall, outside Parliament House, on 13 February 2008.

The Apology 10 years on

One writer's thoughts on the Apology to Indigenous Australians.

John McEwen shakes John Gorton's hand. Gorton is holding a cigarette.

In the running: the Liberals' choice in 1968

The well-populated story behind the election of a party leader.

Australians opposed to conscription in 1917 argued that the absence of white men, who were fighting the war, would lead to a flood of non-white labour into the country, lowering living standards and wages

A plebiscite milestone: 100 years on from the 1917 conscription debates

How Australian voters rejected conscription during the First World War.

View of the House of Representatives chamber from the left of the Speaker's Chair.

It’s Bennelong time

How these museum objects tell stories of past members for Bennelong.

A painting of a large group of miners gathered in a circle around a flagpole, kneeling and raising hands and objects into the air, as the Eureka flag is raised. The title reads 'Swearing allegiance to the "Southern Cross"' and dated 'December 1st 1854'.

Eight by-elections that changed the game

A by-election can indicate that change is coming for a political party.