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A braille alphabet chart. Each letter of the alphabet is in a large white circle with the corresponding braille code for that letter below it. The background of the chart is blue.

Braille Alphabet, courtesy Braille House

Community Heritage Grant: Braille House

Learn about Braille House's journey through the Community Heritage Grants program.

Blog

A cosy living room. A small table surrounded by four chairs takes up much of the image. There are a few other seats in the image, and artwork and sculpture adorning the walls and shelves lining the walls.

Community Heritage Grants: New Applicants Q&A forum

This was an opportunity to learn more about the Community Heritage Grants program and ask specific questions about your proposal.

Event

A woman stands on the right-hand side of this image holding a cleaning tool and applying it to a plaque. A man is on the left-hand side watching the cleaning process.

Associate Professor Nicole Tse undertaking some test cleaning of a plaque while Michael Lam looks on

Community Heritage Grant: See Yup Society

Learn about the See Yup Temple, recipient of a 2025 Community Heritage Grant.

Blog

There is a pond at the base of this image with manicured gardens stretching up the hill behind it. A semi-enclosed outdoor seating area sits halfway up the image on the right-hand side.

Part of the Cowra Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre.

Community Heritage Grant: Cowra Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre

Learn about the Cowra Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre, recipient of a 2025 Community Heritage Grant.

Blog

Front page of the Port Denison Times and Bowen Advocate

The Port Denison Times and Bowen Advocate, (Qld.), 13 December 1904, nla.gov.au/nla.news-page32436856

More than 90 Queensland newspapers added to Trove

Queensland’s history is now easier to search online.

News article

Part of the cover of children's book 'The Legend of Jessie Hickman' featuring a woman sitting on a horse, which is standing on its back legs, holding her hat up

On writing 'The Legend of Jessie Hickman'

Author Mark Greenwood shares his process of writing NLA Publishing children’s title The Legend of Jessie Hickman.

NLA Publishing book

detail of cover of Air travel and holiday with illustration of two women driving a car past some boats

Cover of Air travel and holiday, vol. 1, No. 3 (cropped), March 1948, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3997211269

Destination Trove: Travel magazines now online

Pack your bags for a trip through new travel serials, now on Trove.

News article

Ayaiga: Neighbour and Hero

Thomas Higgs with Colin Hall and illustrated by Wally Wilfred

Book

A stack of old papers and reports spread over a desk.

Annual reports from the Adelaide Repertory Theatre collections.

Community Heritage Grant: Adelaide Repertory Theatre

Learn about the Adelaide Repertory Theatre, recipient of a 2025 Community Heritage Grant.

Blog

1892 map of the Parish of Tullamarine and Parish of Maribrynong

Parish of Tullamarine Parish of Maribyrnong, 1892, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232027555

Australian maps for family historians

Discover land and property history with our extensive map collection and enrich your family history research with unique geographical records.

Research guide

Johnston Collection

Over 13,000 negatives, transparencies, and photographs of cattle stations taken between 1951 and 1961, as well as 52 British Hydrographic Office charts and maps of Australia and the Pacific and personal papers of Johnston.

Collection guide

Holmes Collection

Books, pamphlets, broadsides, posters, periodicals, newspapers and some manuscripts mostly relating to Federation and political and constitutional history.

Collection guide

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