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.

We read 'The Truck Cat' for National Simultaneous Storytime 2025.

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Additional Library resources with educational value for teachers and students.

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Explore a rich selection of sources and challenges them to draw their own conclusions about the role of media in World War 1.

Staff from across Canberra’s National Cultural Institutions shared their experiences working with Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property (ICIP) rights.

Poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell discussed their recent Fellowship focused on laying research groundwork for a new poetry collection titled RISE RALLY REST.