We asked Australians with Indian heritage to help us build our collection and these materials are now online. 

Find out how to access over 60,000 passes issued to Indian people who came to Fiji as indentured labourers.

If you are considering independently publishing your book, learn how to get your published book into the Library's collection.

Australians have often gone to great lengths to see their favourite sporting teams, even back in the 1860s!

We’d like to hear from you: National Library of Australia’s Indigenous Collections Study 

We have developed an Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Protocol to guide people on how to access and use ICIP in our collections.

We are striving to increase the representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees in our workforce and to continue to build respectful relationships with communities and connect them with our collections.

Topic

Augustus Earle (1793–1838) was an artist working in the colony of New South Wales around 1825. He painted several portraits of Bungaree, a notable Aboriginal leader.

The Library has a small but significant collection of Indigenous music. This includes music both written by Indigenous people and interpreted by Europeans from interactions with Indigenous people.

Module

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Modern History for Senior Secondary students, with specific reference to content descriptions for Unit 2: Movements for Change in the 20th Century, and specifically those that fall under the examination of ‘Recognition and rights of Indigenous peoples’.