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

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.

After decades spent on the fringes of politics, publishing and Australia’s sex industry, Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten finally tell the stories they could never quite leave behind. Join them for the launch of the new book, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sex Party.

Dr Kate Flaherty and Bell Shakespeare presented 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.

Strut down the catwalk of Australian fashion history with the Library’s collection.