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Join us in Melbourne for the 2025 Kenneth Myer Lecture, presented by Professor Brett Sutton AO.

We held the 2025 Kenneth Myer Lecture, presented by Professor Brett Sutton AO.

End the financial year with a smile by picking up some Australian literature and unique gifts at reduced prices.

Award-winning author Christos Tsiolkas delivers the 2025 Ray Mathew Lecture, exploring the idea of 'Fence-sitting', and its place in the modern world.

Researchers, academics and PhD candidates are encouraged to apply for 9 philanthropically funded scholarships and 5 grants which open for applications on Monday 29 April 2024.

Celebrate three decades of CHG and learn about just a few of the organisations it has supported over the years.

We celebrated the launch of a new board game from Joey Games.

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

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.

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.