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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy

‘Collector’s item’: Australians utilise quirk that entitles citizens to free portrait of the Queen

A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II available for free from the office of Greens leader Adam Bandt
A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II available from Adam Bandt’s office in Melbourne. Citizens can ask their MP for certain ‘nationhood material’ under the ‘constituents’ request program’. Photograph: Will Kelly

When Helen Browne woke to the news of the Queen’s death, she rang her federal MP.

Browne was hoping to secure one of the last complimentary portraits of Elizabeth II on offer in Australia, part of a little-known entitlement to citizens under a nationhood obligation.

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