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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 ...

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

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 ...

Life under the shoguns was highly stratified, with the population falling into distinct classes based primarily on their economic or political functions. The system can be described as having three ...

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 ...

The land that is now known as Australia was called by various names by the Indigenous peoples who lived there for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. These names varied between ...

Estimating the current value of historical monetary amounts is not a straightforward process. It is harder to get an accurate and meaningful comparison the further back in time you go. There are some ...

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 ...