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Parliament for the people
Jennifer Wilson, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series, 12 May 2010
Curator Jennifer Wilson tells us how Australia’s first purpose-built home for the Commonwealth Parliament was opened with suitable pomp and ceremony in Canberra on 9 May 1927.
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series
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- The Melbourne Cup: 150 years of historyIsa Menzies, National Museum of Australia
- The Chinese in BendigoAnne-Marie Conde, National Museum of Australia
- Parliament for the peopleJennifer Wilson, National Museum of Australia
- Matthew Flinders in the Recherche ArchipelagoPip McNaught, National Museum of Australia
- The Sunshine harvesterLeah Bartsch, National Museum of Australia
- Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803–1853Anthea Gunn, National Museum of Australia
- Robe is not famous for robesJennifer Wilson, National Museum of Australia
- The ‘spirit of inquiry’ in Port MacquarieRoslyn Russell, National Museum of Australia
- Heavens above!Vince Ford, Hermann Wehner and Dr Kirsten Wehner
- ‘Never enough grass’ and Bowen DownsDr George Main, National Museum of Australia
- Introduction to the Creating a Country galleryDr Kirsten Wehner, National Museum of Australia
