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Provision Reference: reg 6 (pt 28/86)
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Old Parliament House is significant for its associations with Commonwealth Governments, Oppositions, political parties, individual politicians and the press. Specific rooms and spaces within the building are directly associated with events that shaped the political and private lives of prominent individuals in Australia's political and social history. Many of the surviving parliamentarians, support staff and media representatives feel strong associations with the building and its contents.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Old Parliament House is also significant as the most prominent example of the work of the Commonwealth's first government architect, John Smith Murdoch. To a lesser extent, it is significant as an example of the work of the Chief Architect of the Department of the Interior, Edwin Henderson, who devised the scheme for adding the southeast and southwest wings in their original two-storey form.
Old Parliament House has an important association with many people, particularly national politicians.
Prime Ministers of Australia who served their term in Old Parliament House include:
Stanley Bruce                                                                                                                                                                                                                from 29/10/1922 to 22/10/1929
James Scullin                                                                                                                                                                                                                from 22/10/1929 to 6/1/1932
Joseph Lyons                                                                                                                                                                                                                 from 6/1/1932 to 7/4/1939
Earle Page                                                                                                                                                                                                                   from 7/4/1939 to 26/4/1939
Robert Menzies                                                                                                                                                                                                               from 26/4/1939 to 29/8/1941
Arthur Fadden                                                                                                                                                                                                                from 29/8/1941 to 7/10/1941
John Curtin                                                                                                                                                                                                                  from 7/10/1941 to 5/7/1945
Frank Forde                                                                                                                                                                                                                  from 6/7/1945 to 13/7/1945
Ben Chifley                                                                                                                                                                                                                  from 13/7/1945 to 19/12/1949
Robert Menzies                                                                                                                                                                                                               from 19/12/1949 to 26/1/1966
Harold Holt                                                                                                                                                                                                                  from 26/1/1966 to 19/12/1967
John McEwen                                                                                                                                                                                                                  from 19/12/1967 to 10/1/1968
John Gorton                                                                                                                                                                                                                  from 10/1/1968 to 10/3/1971
William McMahon                                                                                                                                                                                                              from 10/3/1971 to 5/12/1972
Gough Whitlam                                                                                                                                                                                                                from 5/12/1972 to 11/11/1975
Malcolm Fraser                                                                                                                                                                                                               from 11/11/1975 to 11/3/1983
Bob Hawke                                                                                                                                                                                                                    from 11/3/1983
and continued beyond 1988 when federal Parliament moved to the new building.
Prominent individuals associated with the Wings include Senator Neville Bonner AO, the first Aboriginal parliamentarian elected in 1972, and Dame Enid Lyons and Senator Dorothy Tangney, the first women elected in 1943.
The building is the most prominent example of the work of the Commonwealth's first government architect, John Smith Murdoch.

     3.4.  Values management tool: mapped values

  To facilitate heritage management at Old Parliament House, the locations of the listed values have been mapped across the building's floorplans. The maps illustrate where the values are located and where they overlap.
  The initial values-mapping process was undertaken for the first version of this Heritage Management Plan and involved an analysis of how the identified heritage values are embodied in different aspects of the place, its setting and its fabric. In 2016 an independent heritage assessment was undertaken on the basement areas. It determined that while the basement areas do not meet the significance threshold for National Heritage value in their own right, they are significant against a number of the Commonwealth Heritage criteria. As such, the basements were assessed against the Commonwealth criteria,