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Australian politics

by State Library of NSW

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Aborigines day of mourning, Sydney, 26 January 1938

Sir Isaac Isaacs and Lady Isaacs, c. 1934, by Sam Hood

General Ho & Tsing [with unidentified Chinese male, 1887 / photographed by Freeman Studios]

Executive Council of NSW, 1856 / photographed by Freeman Brothers

The Governor-General and First Commonwealth Ministry, 1901

First Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, elected under new electoral act of 1880 / photographed by Freeman & Co. Sydney

Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth, Macquarie Street, Sydney, 1st January 1901 / W. A. Gullick, Government Printer

Lieutenant Adolphus August Frederick FitzGeorge, of H.M.S. Galatea, 1868 / photographer Montagu Scott of Sydney

The Orange knock out : political cartoon of John C.L. Fitzpatrick, secretary for mines and treasurer, and the coal strike, 1917 / unknown photographer and colourist

David Gaunson, lawyer defending Ned Kelly, ca. 1880 / photographer J.W. Lindt

Premier Bertram Stevens and his cabinet in his office, Colonial Secretary's Building, Sydney, 29 February 1939 / photographer Sam Hood

Reading the proclamation of annexation, Mr Lawe's house, Port Moresby, New Guinea, November 1884 / photographer John Paine or Augustine E. Dyer

University of Sydney Commem Day procession, Old Medical School, 5 May 1965 / photographer Jack Hickson, Australian Photographic Agency

Bob Hawke elected President of the ACTU, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney, 10 September 1969 / Uwe Kuessner, Australian Photographic Agency

Politicians lolling on the grass at Canberra [i.e. Lanyon House], 1927, by Sam Hood

Edmund Barton, Q.C., M.L.C., ca. 1889 / unknown photographer

Laying of the foundation stone of the Commencement Column, Canberra, 12th March, 1913 / photographer unknown

Miles Franklin, 1940s, by unknown photographer (MLPX*D250/1)

Strikers during lockout, at Broken Hill, 1909, photographer unknown