Browse photographs from the 1956 Melbourne Olympics to learn the top tips for how to watch a sports game.

The Library acquires Australian material mainly through legal deposit, purchase (direct from publishers or through library suppliers), exchange, gift or donation.

Collection of Australian drama consisting of 197 unpublished plays in typescript or manuscript form by Australian authors.

Large collection of papers from the politician William Morris Hughes including correspondence, official papers and reports, diaries, notebooks, newspaper cuttings, speeches, invitations and more.

Learn about 2025 National Library of Australia Fellow John Morrissey's research into poet and environmentalist Judith Wright. 

About 6500 lantern slides, glass negatives and photographs, mostly of Australian ships, especially sailing ships.

Over 10,000 black and white negatives and colour transparencies, about 1000 exhibition prints, several photograph albums, a group of stereographs, plus maps, diaries and personal papers.

Enter the time warp and explore the Rocky Horror Picture Show script and Jim Sharman’s visual diaries, now on Trove.

Joy McCann, forward by Tim Jarvis AM

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Advertising campaigns for iconic Australian brands and early ads.