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These activity ideas support caring for the local environment, decision making and being you.
Thought-provoking picture books to explore First Nations perspectives.
Australians were asked to vote on whether men in National Service could be deployed to fight in World War One.
The experience of Australia's fifth governor-general.
Journalist Gay Davidson was the first woman to head a press bureau in Parliament House.
Hear the story of Joan Child, the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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