Parliament of Victoria

Connect your students with the Parliament of Victoria with our online incursions via Webex

We offer a variety of online incursions for grades 5—12 via Webex. Scroll down for more information and how to book your incursion.

Parliamentary role plays give your students the opportunity to act out the various roles in Parliament to pass a law.

Our interactive activity allows your students to experience the law-making process firsthand by taking on the roles of Speaker, Clerk, Serjeant-at-Arms, Premier, Leader of the Opposition and other members of Parliament. This experience is conducted over 90 minutes and includes a short tour of Parliament House.

If your school is within a 50-kilometre radius of the Parliament House, we can come out to your school to run our role-play in your classroom.

Our interactive role-play allows students to experience the law-making process firsthand while they take on the roles of Speaker, Clerk, Serjeant-at-Arms, Premier, Leader of the Opposition and other members of Parliament. The role-play is conducted over 75 minutes in your classroom.

We currently offer role-plays for students in grades 5/6 and VCE Legal Studies, and for more information on the types of role-plays we offer, please visit our role-play page.

Join us for a free tour of these historic gardens to learn more about their evolution from Victorian-era roots to a modern Australian landscape.

Established in the 1860s, the Parliament House gardens are a classic example of late Victorian landscaped design, and act as an unlikely oasis at the top of Melbourne’s CBD.

Dominated by Norfolk pines and Algerian oaks, the gardens are based on a William Guilfoyle design that allows visitors to meander through at a leisurely pace.

As well as learning about the history of Parliament and its garden, the experienced guide will show you highlights such as the oldest lawn bowls green in Victoria still in use, and the award-winning annex with its native rooftop garden.