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Use sales plans to find information about land sales, such as prices, boundaries, roads and land use.

Learn about a poster featured in our Hopes and Fears exhibition, and how the creators made it to reclaim a derogatory word and celebrate their heritage.

Explore these book recommendations from the National Library staff to help library lovers of all ages get in the Library Lovers’ Day spirit!

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In colonial Australia, there was a useful household book called an almanac. It contained lots of information, including weather forecasts and pictures of the flags used to signify approaching storms.

Learn about the federal election ephemera collection and how you can contribute.

The redeveloped Catalogue is now live.

Find out how a powerful newspaper article written in 1855 by a fugitive slave was re-published into a book and added to our collection.

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Examine the journeys and challenges of refugees to Australia and reflect on government policies related to asylum and detention in this learning resource.

The Margarita Philosophica (Pearl of Philosophy) (1517) of German Carthusian monk and prior Gregor Reisch (c. 1467-1525).