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Text in a retro font reading '1975 Living in the Seventies' on a bright orange background
1975: Living in the Seventies

Look back on life in the 70s including politics, feminism, pop culture, news of the day, and more.

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A gentleman standing behind a table in a suit addressing the room

C Wakeford & Fairfax Corporation, Politician John Latham making an address at a lunch in his honour at Hotel Australia, Sydney, 14 June 1934, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-162085956

Latham Collection

Papers of the barrister and politician Sir John Latham, including correspondence, family and personal documents, notes, speeches, diaries, minute books, account books, cuttings, photographs, pamphlets, invitations, menus, programs, receipts, maps and tourist publications.

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Groom Collection

About 200 books and 260 pamphlets, plus personal papers and photographs mainly related to Australian history, politics, law, literature and religion from Sir Ernest Littleton Groom.

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Mabo Collection

Personal papers and legal material that record of one of the most important and controversial legal cases in Australian history and the life of the man who is chiefly associated with the case.

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First Australians
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Mauritius Collection

About 2,100 books, pamphlets, government publications, tourist booklets, magazines and other works about Mauritius and the Indian Ocean. Mostly in French or English, but also a few items in Mauritian Creole.

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Dr Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun sitting at a computer in the Main Reading Room and smiling

2024 Asia Study Grant recipient Dr Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun

Connecting law, religion and politics with the history of blasphemy in Indonesia

Hear from Dr Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun, one of our 2024 Asia Study Grant recipients, about her research.

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Law books stacked on a desk
Trailblazing women lawyers

Module

Explore the stories of Australian women who broke barriers in the legal profession in this learning module.

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The number 9 with a number of measurements superimposed

Detail from Australian standards for road traffic control devices, E.36-1960, (Sydney: Standards Association of Australia,1960), nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2025682

Standards research guide

This guide will help you identify and locate standards from Australia and overseas.

Research guide
sepia photo of the Supreme Court in Adelaide in the late 1800s

Samuel White Sweet, (1869), Supreme Court, Adelaide, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-144217269

Court records research guide

This guide will help you find information about court cases in court records and how to access them both at the National Library and online.

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black and white photo of the law courts building in Melbourne, ca 1892

Fred Hardie & G.W. Wilson & Co., Law courts, Melbourne, ca.1892, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-149731986

Law reports research guide

This guide will help you find information about court cases in law reports and how to access them both at the National Library and online.

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Anti-slavery movement in the United States

Microform collections documenting the anti-slavery movement from the 18th-20th centuries and selected monographs

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View of the Australian House of Representatives in Parliament House from slightly above. Members of the House of Representatives sit throughout the room, and members of the public sit in allocated areas

Sean Davey, Members of parliament in the House of Representatives during the debate of the Marriage Amendment Bill, Parliament House, Canberra, 7 December 2017, 1, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-735401237

Government, politics and elections research guide

Use this guide to help find and access materials from the Library's extensive collections on Australian politics and government.

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