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A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press

Michael Richards

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NLA Publishing book
On the left is a smiling woman with brown hair. In the middle is the cover of the book 'A Good Kind of Trouble' by Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward with a drawing of a teenage girl carrying a football under her arm and a backpack on her back. On the right is a smiling woman with pink hair.
A Good Kind of Trouble with Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward

Brooke Blurton and Dr Melanie Saward yarned about their new young adult novel, A Good Kind of Trouble, and what it means to write Indigenous-led stories for today’s young people.

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A woman with long dark hair wearing a green shirt is pictured in front of green shrubbery
2026 Ray Mathew Lecture: Winnie Dunn

Award-winning Tongan-Australian writer Winnie Dunn delivers the 2026 Ray Mathew Lecture, examining the topic of representation in literature.

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Future Library forest, Nordmarka, Norway

2026 Future Library Handover Ceremony - Livestream

We joined the Future Library project, Tommy Orange and Amitav Ghosh online as they delivered the 2026 Handover Ceremony.

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Christos Tsiolkas wearing a blue shirt standing in front of the ocean by a rock pool

Image credit: Zoe Ali

2025 Ray Mathew Lecture: Christos Tsiolkas

Award-winning author Christos Tsiolkas delivered the 2025 Ray Mathew Lecture, exploring the idea of 'Fence-sitting', and its place in the modern world.

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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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Shelves of books on display in a Library
12 years in: Writing for the Future Library (2014-2114)

We learnt about the Future Library (2014-2114) project—a hundred-year literary artwork and one of the most internationally acclaimed long-term cultural projects of our time. Curator and producer Anne Beate Hovind appeared in conversation with Kathryn Favelle.

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Shelves of books in the National Library's repository are pictured alongside speaker Susannah Fullerton
10 novels that changed the world

Which novels have had a universal impact on our world? Author and leading literary authority Susannah Fullerton delivered this engaging lecture presented by the Friends of the Library.

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Red text reading 'Wangka Wakanutja' on a yellow background
Wangka Wakaṉutja: The Story of the Papunya Literature Production Centre

Explore the decades-long, remarkable efforts of the Papunya community to record language and culture and keep it alive. 

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