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Quizzes

Test your knowledge of defining moments in Australian history with a selection of quizzes.

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Tasmanian dam protesters at the dam site, 1982.

Australia’s environmental history

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Demonstration with ’We want land not handouts‘ placard at Parliament House, Canberra, 30 July 1972.

Indigenous Australian rights

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Australian water carriers at Gallipoli.

Australian involvement at Gallipoli

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Discovery quiz

Defining Moments discovery quiz

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Eureka Stockade riot, Ballarat, 1854, by J.B. Henderson.

18th and 19th century Australian history

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Photograph of Ned Kelly, 1873.

Australian colonial history

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Banner encouraging the United Kingdom to give women the vote, by Dora Meeson Coates, 1908.

20th century Australian history

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Labour Day demonstrations, Sydney, 1950s–60s.

Australian rights

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Certificate exempting Ron Shun Wah from the dictation test, 1932.

Can you pass the test to become an Australian citizen?

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