The PROMPT Collection is a collection of collections. It relates to the performing arts industry in Australia from the 1880s until the present.

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Many protest movements in Australia have resulted from dramatic shifts in public opinion on contentious issues, and as a response to how governments of the time dealt with these shifting opinions.

Music scores and music related material created or collected by the composer, conductor and musicologist Richard Divall.

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Explore how diverse communities have shaped modern Australian life through historical photographs from our collection.

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For most of human history beyond living memory, the main way we know what life was like during the Medieval period is from documentary evidence that remains available to us.

A special National Reconciliation Week screening of the documentary Still We Rise (2022, 59 mins, unclassified).

A special screening of the award-winning documentary The Last Daughter.

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: HASS for Year 6 students.

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The Library holds the archive of the first prime minister of Australia, Edmund Barton (1849–1920). 

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Design and Technologies standards for Year 5 and 6. It draws on the Library’s Wolfgang Sievers Collection to explore how photography, design and industry have transformed modern Australia, encouraging students to investigate how technologies are developed, used, and understood in social and environmental contexts.