One Big Happy Family
Mary Leunig, One Big Happy Family, 1992
Mary Leunig, One Big Happy Family, 1992
In 1999 Australia voted no to replacing the Queen as our head of state with a president.
The powers and duties of the governor-general explained.
False information from ancient times to the present.
How the head of the government can lose their position.
Is the dismissal of an elected government an event that could happen in countries other than Australia?
In the 1951 referendum, Australia voted no on banning Communist ideology by the barest of margins.
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