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Dog Beach by Julie Murphy and Annie White A new children's book is set to capture the hearts of young readers and their ...

Broaden your horizons with this month’s events. Learn about astrophysics (and Dungeons & Dragons!) with Karlie Noon, discover artists’ books in our collection, get great advice from Kasey Chambers and ...

Who will be the winners of the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards? Join 3 of the winners, André Dao, Daniel Browning and Ryan Cropp, in conversation with the Artistic Director of the Canberra ...

School’s in at the National Library’s Digital Classroom. Home to more than 10 million collection items, the National Library of Australia is the largest source of information in the world about ...

Australian newspapers in the Library's collection are categorized and stored according to format. You can identify if the newspaper you have located in our catalogue ...

Suffrage refers to a person’s right to vote in a political election. Voting allows members of society to take part in deciding government policies that affect them. Women’s suffrage refers to the ...

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 ...

Philip Sydney Whelan (1873–1943) was born in Warwick, Queensland, and moved to Sydney with his parents in 1879. At school he met Christopher Brennan and he was later friendly with Henry Lawson, A.B.

For help with locating records and information on Australians who served in the First World War see also our First World War research guide page on Finding a soldier. Finding the family redcoat : ...

Theses completed for higher research degrees (PhD, Masters or Honours) form an important body of original research. There are a number of places you can search for Australian theses, we have outlined ...