A lifelong Canberran, Karen Schlage describes winning the People’s Choice Award in the 2024 Lifeline Canberra Spirit of Canberra Awards as “overwhelming”.
In a renovation that could have won reality TV show House Rules, Old Parliament House has just done the big reveal, showing off its $2 million refurbishment of the House of Representatives chamber.
Cost-of-living pressures, rising interest rates, the Voice referendum, and climate change are serious concerns for many – but they have their lighter, more humorous sides, as the latest Behind the Lines exhibition of political cartoons at the Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD) shows.
Just as legislation must pass through both houses of parliament, so too do renovations – and the House of Representatives at Old Parliament House is undergoing its first major upgrade in 100...
From the Australian War Memorial to the National Museum of Australia, Stephanie Bull has been curating Australian stories for nearly three decades. She recently stepped into the role of Director of Museum...
This International Women’s Day is one of firsts in Canberra. Today, Wednesday 8 March, the first statue of a historical woman in the national capital was unveiled, portraying the first women in Australian Federal Parliament.
This year’s iteration of Canberra’s perennially favourite Behind the Lines exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD) explores the year that was in its latest theme ‘Off the Planet’.
Deep in the belly of Old Parliament House, the original home of Australian democracy, lies a new exhibition, Changemakers, which celebrates the women who have shaped society as we know it today.
