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Rosemary Kayess has devoted her career to the study and promotion of human rights and discrimination law in Australia and internationally.

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Jane Connors has had a distinguished academic career in which she has dedicated her scholarship and work as an international law practitioner to the betterment of United Nations (UN) treaty mechanisms and the rights of women and children.

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Sievers’ work is a pictorial timeline showing Australia’s social, technological and industrial transformation.

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The Qing dynasty ruled China for nearly 270 years, lasting from 1644 until 1911; it was the last of China’s so-called conquest dynasties, the country being governed in this period by the Manchus, an ethnic group from beyond its frontiers.

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Australians make heroes of their most famous sportsmen and women, with the cricketer Sir Donald Bradman, Olympian Cathy Freeman and the racehorse Phar Lap among the most celebrated figures in the Australian sporting scene.

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Under legal deposit provisions of the Copyright Act (1968), one copy of everything that is published in Australia must be lodged with the National Library of Australia. As a result, the Library’s collection holds a vast array of Australia’s printed news media.

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A resource for educators teaching digital and/or media literacy in their classrooms. 

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Science for Year 9 students. It draws on the Library's Oral History and Folklore Collection, which has recorded the thoughts and stories of thousands of influential Australians from all disciplines.

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The Khmer Empire has its beginnings somewhere in the late eighth century when Jayavarman II (c. 770–835) is said to have returned to Chenla from exile in Java.