An axe made from a broken champagne bottle on display at the Museum of Australian Democracy has come to symbolise women's ongoing political struggle.

Indigenous children learning to speak their traditional language Miriwoong in the 1980s and 1990s can be heard in a unique collection of magnetic strip cards being digitised at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

An 18th century sketch by William Hodges of Tynai-mai, princess of Ra'iatea, is on display at the National Library's Cook and the Pacific exhibition.