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A photograph of the Library’s Treasures Gallery. The William Shakespeare display is on the left-hand side of the image. The Fred Ward card catalogue is on the right-hand side of the image.

National Library of Australia Treasures Gallery.

Welcome to Treasures 2025

12 Dec 2025

Explore our new Treasures Gallery exhibition opening Saturday 13 December.

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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

12 Dec 2025

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

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detail of illustration of crowd listening to a man on stage

Hume-Cook, James, Liberal, Division of Bourke, VIC (detail), 1910, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3548960192

Australian democracy finds a home on Trove

04 Dec 2025

Explore election ephemera from 1901 to 1970s, now online.

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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

03 Dec 2025

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

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Three objects lie across this image on a black background. A card box, three playing cards with fortunes written on them, and an instruction sheet.

Zinga Lee and M.P. (Marmion Percy) Adams, Zinga Lee fortune-telling by cards, by the original Zinga Lee, 1900, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn6891115

Where are the books?

03 Dec 2025

New Treasures Gallery exhibition answers some of our frequently asked questions.

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Multiple photographs, including portraits of Jim Sharman and portrait of Magenta from Rocky Horror Picture Show pasted onto a single page in a visual diary

Visual Diary 5 - Photo Portraits in Papers of Jim Sharman, c.1970s, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3652108145

“It’s Astounding”: The Legacy of Frank van Straten AM

02 Dec 2025

With a generous bequest from Frank van Straten AM, the Library has brought Jim Sharman’s visual diaries and an original Rocky Horror Picture Show script online for the 50th anniversary of the film’s release.

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Two men kneel before rows of candles on the ground

William Yang, The last candle, AIDS vigil [The Domain, Sydney], 1994, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136864462

Hope is strength and I’m gonna fight

01 Dec 2025

Reflecting on the Australian response to AIDS Oral History Project.

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A woman flicks through a book at a bookshop display

What's On this summer at the National Library 2025-26

27 Nov 2025

Forget the heat this summer and escape to your National Library to discover something new.

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Black text reading 'Library Council' on a blue background

The Hon Christopher Pyne appointed to the National Library of Australia Council

26 Nov 2025

The National Library of Australia is pleased to welcome the Hon Christopher Pyne to its Council for a 3-year term.

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Group of 10 young children sitting under a Christmas tree with presents

Gypsy Pennefeather, Children under Christmas tree, 1995, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-143121718

Have yourself a merry Library Christmas

25 Nov 2025

Get in the holiday spirit with recipes, crafts, music and more from the collection.

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Prof. John Morrissey, 2025 National Library of Australia Stokes Fellow

Human life in a wider ecosystem: Judith Wright and environmental action

24 Nov 2025

Learn about 2025 National Library of Australia Fellow John Morrissey's research into poet and environmentalist Judith Wright.

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visual diary spread with 12 personal photographs showing Tim Curry and Richard O'Brien

Personal photographs in Visual diary 5 - Photo portraits, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3674887841

I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey: explore the papers of Jim Sharman

21 Nov 2025

Enter the time warp and explore the Rocky Horror Picture Show script and Jim Sharman’s visual diaries, now on Trove.

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