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“Our democracy and voting system wasn’t always what we know it to be today.” Catch up on our recent event, Election 2023 Series: Voting in NSW, where Professor Rodney Smith from the University of ...
What do you know about the history of Aboriginal voting rights? How has Aboriginal suffrage and participation in Australia’s democracy changed over time? While Aboriginal people in NSW were not ...
Under the NSW Constitution, the people of New South Wales are asked to elect their state representatives every four years on the fourth Saturday of March. Each voter is presented with two ballot ...
Books for Civic Educators and Students The Parliament of NSW Communications, Engagement and Education team loves to read about civics and parliamentary democracy. In this series of blog posts, we ...
“The Speaker is the mouthpiece of the House.” The role of the Speaker is nearly as old as the Parliament itself. In the Westminster System, the Speaker represents the House and is responsible to ...
Catch up on constitutional law expert Professor Anne Twomey’s captivating talk discussing how Australia’s federal system functioned during the COVID 19 pandemic. “The reality is that the pandemic ...
“Off with his head!” In the Westminster system of government, the office of the Speaker is almost as old as Parliament itself and, in the early days, many a Speaker met with a violent end at the ...
Visit us at Australia’s oldest Parliament as it opens its doors for family fun day, an open day packed with free, fun activities for families with children aged from 4 to 12 years. This year’s ...
Catch up on our recent event, Behind the Lines: A Night with the Artists, where we met some of Australia's most renowned political cartoonists. After a tour of the 2022 Behind the Lines ...
Parliament of New South Wales - Free Event: The Edmund Barton Lecture – The Role of the Speaker in the Westminster System of Government
