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Three pieces of ephemera from the 2023 Referendum

A selection of publicly donated referendum items in our collection.

Donate your 2023 Referendum campaign material
21 Aug 2023

We're calling on you to help us collect campaign material from the 2023 Referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.

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Man reading through a thick, leather-bound book of shipping registers

Lloyd's register of shipping, 1914-1949, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn729906

Discovering your ancestors’ migration story: Part 2
28 Aug 2024

Our Special Collections Research & Support team are back with answers to more common questions that can help can uncover your ancestors' migration story.

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Two women and four men, who make up the Library's Special Collections Research & Support team, standing and smiling in the Special Collections Reading Room in front of a table with three maps on it

Special Collections Research & Support team

Discovering your ancestors’ migration story: Part 1
21 Aug 2024

Our Special Collections Research & Support team have answered common questions that can help can uncover your ancestor’s migration story.

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Book open to title page with text reading 'M. S. Armstrong', 'Plays in on act', 'Thomas', 'Penny Dreadful', 'Drought' and 'Published by Edwards & Shaw Sydney'

Millicent Armstrong, Plays in One Act, 1958, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2333051

Discovering and reviving the plays of Millicent Armstrong
13 Mar 2025

Hear from Dianna Nixon about how she's bring the plays of Milicent Armstrong back to life.

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Man in military uniform with hat smiling

Harry Peters, soldier in the Third Employment Company, c. 1942

Dear Mutzi: Writing a life through letters, memories and imagination
05 Aug 2024

Read about how author Tess Scholfield-Peters explored her grandfather's early life as a teenager fleeing Nazi Germany in her new book 'Dear Mutzi'.

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A man and woman sitting on couches recording an oral history interview
COVID-19 in Australia oral history project
08 Apr 2024

The Library is recording interviews with a diverse range of Australians to ensure that stories of the COVID-19 pandemic are captured for present and future generations.

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The Birds of Australia Gould - Printed plate
Conserving John Gould’s Australian Bird Pattern Plates
13 Jan 2023

Learn about the treatment work our conservators have recently done on thepattern plates for the supplement to The Birds of Australia by John Gould.

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Woman, Margaret Burn, standing with a microphone in front of the Special Collections Reading Room, the opening of which is decorated with ribbons and balloons

Margy Burn at the opening of the Special Collections Reading Room in January 2015

Congratulations to former Assistant Director-General Margaret Burn
03 Feb 2025

Margaret Burn was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her service to library and information science.

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Locomotive 900 Lady Norrie
Community Heritage Grant: National Railway Museum
27 Apr 2023

Explore items from the National Railway Museum's collection and their significance to Australian railway history.

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Photograph of three women, with sewing and knitting tools


Photograph of Florence, Ella and Hazel Porter, circa late 1940s, with sewing and knitting tools, including a wooden darning egg.

Community Heritage Grant: Miss Porter's House
20 Mar 2023

Explore the collection at the Miss Porter's House museum and the projects it undertook through the CHG program.

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Easel, with two illustrated pages on it, and chair in May Gibbs' studio in Nutcote

May Gibbs' easel in Studio at Nutcote

Community Heritage Grant: May Gibb’s Nutcote
25 Feb 2025

Learn about May Gibbs' Nutcote, recipient of a 2024 Community Heritage Grant.

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Black and white photo of damage to a caravan park about Cyclone Tracy, including several large tree branches on the ground and damaged caravans

Alan Dwyer, Caravan park in Darwin after Cyclone Tracy, December, 1974, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-148903604

Commemorating Cyclone Tracy through images and oral histories
08 Jan 2025

Fifty years on, see how the destruction and impact of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin 1974 is captured in our collection. 

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