Paul Daley is an author and Walkley Award-winning journalist. He has over two decades experience as a political writer, defence and foreign affairs correspondent and national affairs editor for The Bulletin.
Hansard is testimony, in black and white, to our functioning federal parliamentary democracy - for all its strengths and weaknesses, its brilliance and tawdriness and its immense unending drama.
Jimmy Clements, a Wuradjuri man from down Gundagai way, walked all the way up to Canberra on hearing that the Duke and Duchess of York were set to open the new federal parliament.
The Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House mourns the passing of Edward Gough Whitlam, twenty-first prime minister of Australia.
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