Selected letters from the National Library's vast collections have been paired with responses from contemporary Australians in this new publication.

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

Discover love, creativity, politics, family and more with historically and culturally significant letters from writers such as Jane Austen, Judith Wright, Henry Lawson, Mem Fox and Senator Neville Bonner AO as well as inspiring new letters from modern Australians like Kate Forsyth, David Brooks, Maggie Mackellar, Ranjana Srivastava, Sam Wallman.

Family, kinship, care, responsibility

What stories do, and why they exist.

How stories are shared and remembered.

Focus: place, people, languages, everyday life 

This Digital Classroom module invites students and teachers to explore the Papunya readers. Aligned with the Australian Curriculum: HASS, English and The Arts and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures cross-curriculum priority, this resource encourages students to learn about Country, language, storytelling and the purposes stories serve.