The Central Islands comprise Masig, Poruma, Warraber and Yam Islands.

Get help to find and access material from the Library’s Chinese collection and beyond.

Beginner researchers can use this guide to find resources to help learn about their domestic family history or trace their ancestral origins overseas.

Circus, magic and mime, and puppetry

Use this guide to help find and access resources in our collection about the Aboriginal Day of Mourning, the Freedom Ride, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protest, the Cronulla Riots and the Black Lives Matter protests.

The Federal Register of Legislation (the Legislation Register) is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents.

The Library holds several smaller archives of individual Australian composers. Conductor’s scores are generally manuscript material and annotated with performance marks.

Upon arrival, a convict was usually assigned to a master, the Female Factory or to Public Works. Who and where a convict was assigned to was recorded in an assignment register. 

From January 1788, when the First Fleet of convicts arrived at Botany Bay, to the end of convict transportation 80 years later, over 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia.

While we don’t sell original newspapers, you can create a scan or photocopy onsite or order a digital copy online.