With new people and cultures come new ideas and a significant immigrant contribution to Australian sport and society.

This guide will help you identify and locate standards from Australia and overseas.

You may need to access statistical data to support or illustrate your research. This guide will help you find and access key records and resources.

Regulations are the most common form of subordinate legislation. These are the guidelines that dictate how the provisions of a specific Act are applied.

Find out more about the key players, pivotal petition campaigns, government policies and resources documenting the fight for constitutional change to end discrimination against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Find out more about the constitutional context, the activism that led to change and key resources documenting the fight for recognition and justice for First Nations people.

Legislation, also known as statutes or Acts of Parliament, is the written law made by Parliament. In any year the Parliament may vote on new Acts of Parliament to create new laws or vote to change, or amend, older Acts of Parliament. 

Use this guide to access resources related to the 1967 Referendum's questions and results, the significance of the 'Yes' vote, related misconceptions about voting rights and its lasting impact.

Convict journals provide a glimpse of convict life on the voyage to Australia, and sometimes accounts of colonial life. There are very few convict journals which have survived.

Our theatre and performance music collections showcase the music Australians were listening to throughout the 20th century.