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Discover the origins of Australia Day and guide students to consider what it means  to different people using promotional material from our collection.

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This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: English for Year 4 students. It has been developed to use National Library collection material as the basis for an exploration of children’s literature as part of the literature strand of the English learning area.

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Learn about Australia’s national emblems and official symbols, and the emblems of your state or territory using images and objects from our collection.

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The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia helped to establish the iconography of Australian impressionism, often also identified as the Heidelberg School.

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Discover how migration has shaped Australia’s diverse identity through stories from the first colonies, the gold rush, refugees and more in this learning module.

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Women lawyers stand at the forefront of women's participation in Australian civic life.

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This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences (Geography), and Science for Year 4, 5 and 6 students.

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While the majority of Australians participate in our democracy during elections, there are ways of participating and sharing your beliefs throughout the year.

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Explore the different ways and reasons that people came to Australia and stayed through the personal migration stories of Kwong Mui Ying, Lorenzo Abrogar Gamboa and Thomas Frankovitz.

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Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, Europe entered a period of cultural, political and economic change. The stabilising force of the Roman Empire gave way and new states and rulers stepped in to fill gaps.