How Australia’s first female MPs were forced to go home to use the toilet

What if you had to go home on your work lunch break to use the toilet? That was the reality for the first group of women who ...
The Washington Post

Australia’s Old Parliament House is set on fire during protest

MELBOURNE, Australia — Protesters set fire to Australia’s Old Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday, officials said, damaging the entrance to the historic building, as demonstrators clashed with ...
Seattle Times

Fire damages front doors of Australia’s Old Parliament House

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A fire damaged the front doors and exterior of Australia’s Old Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday. The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately clear, although a group of ...
Jurist

Australia Old Parliament House catches fire amid protests

Australia’s historic Old Parliament House caught fire Thursday during protests by a mix of activists. Reporters on the scene from 7NEWS Australia cited “conflicting reports” about the fire’s origin ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The faces with a front-row seat to history

Official secretary to the Governor-General Sir David Smith reading a proclamation dissolving both houses of Parliament, November 11, 1975.(Supplied: The Sydney Morning Herald) A sacked prime minister.