Welcome to the charmingly funny and perfectly peculiar world of Aussie animal mums and dads, and their awesome kids.

In 2022, Australian writer, academic and gay rights campaigner Dennis Altman was interviewed by Robert Reynolds for the National Library's Oral History collection.

Ayla's Christmas Wish by Pamela Jones and Lucia Masciullo.

Topic

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

Module

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Visual Arts for Year 9 and 10 students. It adopts an inquiry approach to develop students’ skills as art historians.

Two Ashes test series’, the first Cricket World Cup, and a test match tour by the West Indies. 1975 was a memorable year for Australian men’s cricket. 

Michael Richards

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.

Join Dr Kate Flaherty and Bell Shakespeare for a special lecture about Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, diving into the play and its history, unpacking what it tells us about our past, present and future.

Associate Professor Deane Williams presented a lecture on his 2023 National Library Fellowship research about how Ron Maslyn Williams – filmmaker, photographer, writer, musician and radio playwright – became one of Australia’s post-Second World War cultural innovators.