The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional ...

The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional ...

When I tell people that I wrote a book about a colonial surveyor called Townsend, and that I spent almost seven years researching it, I am usually met with quizzical looks—it is rare for anyone to ...

Electoral rolls list people who are registered and eligible to vote at federal, state, territory and local government elections and referenda. Before Federation and for some years afterwards, there ...

During the World War II campaign in Papua New Guinea, there were a series of battles between the Australians and Japanese along the route across the Owen Stanley Range, which runs from Port Moresby to ...

The idea of a federation of the six Australian colonies was occasionally debated among Australian politicians, officials and others from about 1850 onwards. There was support for the idea in official ...

Once your papers or organisational records have been accepted by the Curatorial and Collection Research Section, they are ready to be prepared for transfer. To assist the Library we ask that donors ...

The Library holds approximately 200,000 post-1900 Australian topographic maps published by national and state mapping authorities. These include current mapping at a number of scales from 1:25 000 to ...

The 1938 festivities that marked 150 years since the landing of the First Fleet celebrated Australia’s progress and development as a nation. The Australian National Travel Association chose Tom Purvis ...

We are calling on all Australians to help us build the next chapter of Australia’s political history by collecting ephemera from the 2022 federal election! Every three years, in the lead up to a ...

The arrival of an ancestor in Australia is a key moment in a family's history. They may have arrived as a fare-paying passenger, as an 'assisted' migrant, a member of a ship's crew, in military or ...