We are grateful to our donors who generously gave over $320,000 to help make our election ephemera collection available to the world on Trove. Your support will allow us to share the vivid story of our Australian democracy.

Learn more about these types of delegated and where to find them in our collections, relevant state or territory collecting institutions, and online.

Learn about one of our largest manuscripts collections.

Papers of Christina Stead including diaries, manuscripts of her works, correspondence, personal documents, cuttings and photographs as well as papers of her biographers.

You may need to access statistical data to support or illustrate your research. This guide will help you find and access key records and resources.

Search for government publications in our collections or in state or territory collecting institutions.

The Library has recently digitised the speeches of Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue AC CBE DSG.

With support from Library Patrons, we have digitised the collections of some of Australia’s most remarkable women leaders. 

More than 400 Russian socialist pamphlets published mainly in the period 1900-1945, and 2 microfilm collections from Stanford and Harvard Universities of Russian revolutionary literature from 1898-1922.

1576 pamphlets, leaflets, speeches, newspaper and serial issues relating to trade unionism, socialism, left-wing parties in Australia, economics and labour issues, as well as the papers of Lloyd Ross and his father the socialist journalist RS Ross.

Thousands of pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, speeches, brochures and other material from political parties, trade unions, pressure groups and other bodies concerned with the Australian labour movement from the 1890s to 1960s.

Learn about the federal election ephemera collection and how you can contribute.