Find out more about the legislation of the Australian states and territories.

How to find statistics in the Library and elsewhere

The National Library operates from 4 buildings: 3 in Canberra and one in Jakarta, Indonesia. These buildings house our collection of approximately 10 million items.

This Service Charter sets out the standard of service you can expect from us.

Thanks to a gift from the Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation, we are digitising performing arts material from our incredible collection.

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In this lecture, Dr Julian Raxworthy explored the intersection between landscape design and garden maintenance, the subject of his book Overgrown: practices between landscape architecture and gardening.

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

Learn about the types of maps we hold and how to access them, including maps for countries, oceans and the planets.

Some of the major overseas government statistical agencies, the equivalents of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, provide comprehensive, free information from national to local levels.