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While the majority of Australians participate in our democracy during elections, there are ways of participating and sharing your beliefs throughout the year.

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 10 students.

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As captain of the newly built Eendracht, Dirk Hartog was bound for the East Indies in 1616, along with other VOC ships.

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences for Year 4 students.

Learn about Martie’s Fellowship that will result in a documentary to be screened at the 2023 National Folk Festival.

Join ArtsNational Canberra and Libby Melzer for a discussion about the 1297 inspeximus issue of the Magna Carta in the collection of the Parliament of Australia.

Learn about the Library's family history research charts and how to find the information to fill them in.

American cartographic expert Emeritus Professor Dennis Reinhartz discussed the exploration and charting of the Americas and the Pacific undertaken by the Spanish from the 15th to the 18th centuries with map collector, curator and author Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy.

In the second part of our sports stories series, we turn our attention to books by and about the Australian athletes on the basketball and tennis courts and in the swimming pool.

500 years have now passed since Ferdinand Magellan’s famous voyage, the most audacious in maritime history. In his new book East by West, Allen Mawer closely examines the historical sources, charts and eyewitness records, considering afresh what we know of Magellan and the details of his voyage.