COMING SOON – Clerk of the Senate's Office
Maintaining order in the Senate.
Location
Main floor
Reopening in November 2024, this office was home to the Clerk of the Senate, a top bureaucrat who helped keep the Senate running smoothly. The office will evoke Tuesday 11 November 1975, the day the Whitlam government was dismissed. The Clerk of the Senate and occupant of the office on that date was James Odgers.
The re-creation of the Clerk of the Senate's Office is made possible by the generous support of the donors to MoAD's 2024 Annual Appeal.
The Clerk of the Senate's office in 1985. It featured a substantial desk, built-in bookshelves and numerous mismatched chairs. Photograph by Lori Anglin, Tanner and Associates, MoAD Collection