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Catherine Law (Opalgate Foundation) and Alice Wong (NLA council) at the 2024 NLA Patron dinner

New online programs for lifelong learning

29 Aug 2024

With the Opalgate Foundation’s support, we are creating a new lifelong learning space on our website.

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Frank Hurley, Steaming through light pack-ice, passage is very slow, some hundreds of miles were passed through, [Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911 - 1914], nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141792618

NLA Publishing to release a remarkable interpretation of Frank Hurley’s Antarctic diaries

11 Jan 2024

A new title from NLA Publishing combines daily snapshots from Australian photographic pioneer Frank Hurley’s Antarctic diaries into a moving documentary poetry collage.

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Abstract graphic illustration detail from the the front cover of the book 'Telling Lives'.

Detail from the Telling Lives book cover.

NLA Publishing to release anthology on the craft of biography and life-writing

07 Aug 2024

Telling Lives is a captivating anthology of these lectures, featuring contributions from 17 renowned authors.

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Hermann with his cousin Ulla and her daughter, Gabriele, at their home in Maida Vale, date unknown, supplied by Tess Scholfield-Peters.

NLA Publishing to release debut author’s story of love, escape and finding the forgotten

23 Apr 2024

Tess Scholfield-Peters tells her grandfather’s story with three intertwining threads.

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NLA Publishing to release first comprehensive biography of Charles Weston

05 Aug 2025

NLA Publishing to release first comprehensive biography of Charles Weston.

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Now online: South Korean community newspaper the Hanho Times

29 Jan 2025

See some of the stories contained in the Hanho Times Korean community newsletter.

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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'

08 Jan 2026

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

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A couple smiles at the camera in a formal setting. Susan, with dark hair pulled back, wears a black outfit with gold buttons. Isaac, wearing glasses and a dark pinstriped suit, holds a wine glass in one hand. They are surrounded by a dimly lit background with other people.

Susan Wakil AO and Isaac Wakil AO

Our performing arts collection dazzles on Trove

29 Aug 2024

Thanks to a gift from the Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation, we are digitising performing arts material from our incredible collection.

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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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Group of Papua New Guineans in traditional dress, including feathered headpieces, at the Independence Day Celebration.

Terence and Margaret Spencer, Independence Day Celebration, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1975, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-145645567

Papua New Guinea: 50 years of Independence

16 Sep 2025

Explore parliamentary debates relating to the Independence of Papua New Guinea.

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Illustration of different types of birds, including a cockatoo and kingfisher, sitting on branches

Ellis Rowan & Geo. Murray & Co., Australian birds, c. 1890, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136190048

Paradise of birds

15 Nov 2024

See some of the many talented bird artists from the 19th and 20th centuries in our collection.

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Two woman in green and gold clothing embracing excitedly in front of a crowd.

Leigh Henningham, Matildas fans reacting to an Australian goal at a public screening of the Australia vs Canada 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup match at Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria, 31 July, nla.obj-3254738517

Photographs of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

01 Aug 2024

The Library commissioned photographers to capture the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

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