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Women sit at a table talking to each other

June Orford, Class members, refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the former Yugoslavia, practise English language exercises at the Fitzroy Learning Network, Fitzroy, Victoria, 2005, nla.obj-137095404

Black and white photo of a First Nations woman in a wheelchair with three of her young grandaughters, two standing behind her one sitting on her lap

Claire Martin, Susie Yuline and her grandchildren, Port Hedland, Pilbara, Western Australia, 2014, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-374738458

Photo of a ballerina in a white tutu posing with one arm up over her head

Walter Stringer, Marilyn Jones, Swan Lake c. 1963, The Australian Ballet, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-146855871

Coloured photo of the Kodak factory, a modernist architectural building, at night, with the lights inside the building glowing

Wolfgang Sievers, Kodak factory, Coburg, Victoria, 1962, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-160326380

Woman greeting man outside house for Celebration of Eid al-Adha

Hamish Cairns, Greeting family from Celebration of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, Queensland, June 2023, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3248776902

Sydney Harbour Bridge crowded with people, with Aboriginal and Australian flags being held up

Loui Seselja, Huge crowd on Sydney Harbour Bridge during the Walk for Reconciliation, Corroboree 2000, [1], nla.gov.au/nla.obj-145680129

A stream flowing between large rocks and green flora with clouds in the background

Peter Dombrovskis, Alpine tarns, Mount Wellington, Tasmania, 1969?, nla.obj-151447183

Various ephemera relating to Australian federal election campaigns spread over a black background

Ephemera relating to the Australian federal election campaigns

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