To celebrate his latest book What a Ripper! 60 everyday objects that shaped Australia, Tim Ross was joined on stage by one of the designers featured in the book, Mary Featherston.

Around 500 titles by minor and obscure British poets of the 19th century, most having been published during the reign of Queen Victoria – some earlier imprints extending back to 1801.

Drawings, sketches, plans and photographs of Australian colonial architecture, ancient buildings from China and Greece, furnature designs and sketches for a proposed "ideal city" of Kurrajong.

We learnt about the features, habitat and behaviours of some truly peculiar Australian animals in this interactive online learning session.

Kutcha Edwards delivered the inaugural Bringing Them Home Oration.

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Languages for years 7–10.

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Migration from Arabic nations to Australia has a complex and multifaceted history.

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Stringent colonial restriction laws affected early Chinese migration to Australia.

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French settlement in Australia commenced soon after the arrival of the First Fleet.

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German migrants came to Australia as founding pioneers following colonisation, with 10,000 migrating during the gold rushes of the 1850s.