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POLITICAL CARTOONS

Browse Behind the Lines, our annual exhibition celebrating the year's best political cartoons.

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Visitors looking at the framed cartoons on the walls

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Hands that shook Australia

Hands that shook Australia

Significant Australian handshakes.

Love letters at the heart of politics

Love letters at the heart of politics

Two examples from the Museum of Australian Democracy collection.

The man who became King but never saw his coronation

The man who became King but never saw his coronation

The collection object whose story has a twist in the tale.

Charley’s choice: the breastplate of Charley, king of Burran

Charley’s choice: the breastplate of Charley, king of Burran

How a collection item connects us to voices from the past.

Alfred Deakin and the Divine

Alfred Deakin and the Divine