The 2026 Kenneth Myer Lecture will be delivered by Ronni Kahn AO, founder of leading food rescue charity, OzHarvest.

The 2026 Kenneth Myer Lecture will be delivered by Ronni Kahn AO, founder of leading food rescue charity, OzHarvest.

Celebrate the end of the financial year with great savings on Australian literature and unique gifts with discounts up to 50%*. 

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

Breakfasts, bold voices, and a groundbreaking poster: step inside the first-ever NAIDOC Week in 1975 and meet the community of women who transformed a local children’s program into a national call for justice.

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.

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.

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.