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Waltzing Matilda is recognized as Australia’s most popular folk song.

Our newspaper collections include digitised historic and modern newspapers accessible online, as well as newspapers in microform and paper formats.

We learnt about the features, habitat and behaviours of some truly peculiar Australian animals in this interactive online learning session.

We stepped into the private libraries of one of history’s most infamous royal couples and discovered how ink, margins, and manuscript flourishes reveal more than meets the eye.

We had a special conversation with artist Luke Cornish, celebrating the bold, intricate, and politically charged stencil work of ELK.

Authors Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw, in conversation with Annabelle Quince, discussed their new book, Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War.

Professors Martin Thomas and Jon Altman discussed Martin’s new book, Clever Men.

We held the 2025 Kenneth Myer Lecture, presented by Professor Brett Sutton AO.

Learn from our expert curators to discover stories behind Fit to Print: Defining Moments from the Fairfax Photo Archive, and the methods used to produce these slices of life from Australian history.

Brooke Blurton and Dr Melanie Saward yarned about their new young adult novel, A Good Kind of Trouble, and what it means to write Indigenous-led stories for today’s young people.