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2024 Asia Study Grant recipient Dr Anita Dewi

Libraries in Indonesia: Definitions, regulation and evolution
05 Jun 2024

Learn about the research of 2024 Asia Study Grant recipient Dr Anita Dewi.

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National Library celebrates curiosity and discovery during National Science Week
03 Aug 2026

We will join organisations across the country this August to celebrate National Science Week, Australia’s annual festival of science, technology and innovation.

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A woman stands in a classroom gesturing at piles of readers laid out on the tables in the classroom.

Vivien Johnson, Charlotte Phillipus in the Papunya School’s Luritja Piipa in May 2010, courtesy of the photographer.

New book, Wangka Wakaṉutja: The Story of the Papunya Literature Production Centre
16 Mar 2026

Explore the remarkable achievements of the Papunya community to record and teach their language and culture.

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Woman with dark hair, Suprawee (Earn) Asanasak, standing in the stacks of the Library smiling and holding a book

2024 Asia Study Grant recipient Miss Suprawee (Earn) Asanasak

Painting a picture of 19th and 20th century Thai law
18 Feb 2026

Hear about Suprawee (Earn) Asanasak 2024 Asia Study Grant research. 

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Bill Mihalopoulos
Q&A with 2021 National Library Fellow Dr Bill Mihalopoulos
11 Apr 2023

We spoke to Dr Bill Mihalopoulos about his research using the Harold S Williams collection and time at the Library. 

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Annise Beta - Asia Study Grant Recipient
Q&A with 2022 Asia Study Grant recipient Annisa Beta
17 May 2023

We spoke to Annisa Beta, recipient of the 2022 Asia Study Grant, on her time at the Library.

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Watch Dr Kate Warren's Fellowship presentation titled 'Cut-out-and-keep: magazines and the popularisation of Australian art in the 1950s and 1960s'.

Q&A with 2022 National Library of Australia Fellow Dr Kate Warren
16 Mar 2023

Kate’s research focused on the role of popular magazines in Australian art history and arts communication in the 1950s and 1960s.


 

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NLA scholarships Madeleine Pugin

2023. Madeleine Pugin, National Library of Australia 2022 Scholarship recipient, standing behind the Boab100 work by artists from Waringarri Aboriginal Arts.

Q&A with 2022 National Library of Australia Scholar Madeleine Pugin 
04 May 2023

Hear from Madeline about how she was able to research her Indigenous heritage using the Ancestry Library, Trove and the Special Collections Reading Room.

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Fellowships 2023 Yahia Ma
Q&A with 2023 Asian Study Grant recipient Yahia Zhengtang Ma
05 Jun 2023

Yahia’s research examined the Chinese ‘homosexual’ men’s lived experience as represented in the Australian-Chinese language newspapers, magazines, and digital media.

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Martie Lowenstein - The recipient of the 2023 National Folk Fellowship
Q&A with 2023 National Folk Fellow Martie Lowenstein
24 Mar 2023

Learn about Martie’s Fellowship that will result in a documentary to be screened at the 2023 National Folk Festival.

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Dr Jo Langdon standing and leaning on a table in the Special Collections Reading Room with a Royal Perth Hospital Nurses uniform worn including a red cape and two pilot's helmets and goggles on it

Dr Jo Langdon with Royal Perth Hospital Nurses uniform worn including a red cape from the Papers of Robin Miller Dicks, 1943-1978, nla.cat-vn4456021, and Air pilot's cap and goggles owned by Freda Thompson, c. 1934, nla.obj-139636320

Re-presenting Australian female pilots through poetry
09 Oct 2024

Hear from Dr Jo Langdon about her research and experience as a 2024 Creative Arts Fellow.

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Photographs spread on a table, of a woman throughout her career in ballet, including photos of her dancing and portraits

Photographs of Laurel Martyn throughout her career from Papers of Laurel Martyn, 1901-1988, nla.cat-vn307525

Re-writing Australian ballet history
31 Jan 2024

See how Yvette Grant used the Library’s collections to revive the memory of four women in the story of Australian ballet.

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