No longer yours - find out how a powerful newspaper article written in 1855 by a fugitive slave was re-published into a book ...

We’re pleased to announce that 55 community-led organisations will receive a Community Heritage Grant (CHG) in 2024.

Community Heritage Grant. Recipients include the Robin Boyd Foundation, the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research ...

Hear Peter Crowley in conversation with ABC National Affairs Correspondent Melissa Clarke as they discuss Crowley's debut book, 'Townsend of the Ranges'. Watch musician Kasey Chambers celebrate the ...

The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past ...

School’s in at the National Library’s Digital Classroom. Home to more than 10 million collection items, the National Library of Australia is the largest source of information in the world about ...

Keepsakes: Australians and the Great War was the National Library of Australia's exhibition showcasing items from the collections relating to the First World War. Read this essay by exhibition curator ...

Join us and VIP reader Gabby Millgate online for National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) as we head into the world of Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas. Every year, the Australian Library and ...

Joining the National Library gives you access to millions of items from our collections, onsite or online, wherever you are. It's easy to sign-up online, and it's free for all Australian residents. It ...

Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt AO is a Eualayai/Gamillaroi woman and Laureate Fellow at the Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Prison hulks were floating prisons used from 1776 as temporary accommodation for prisoners from overcrowded jails. A hulk is a ship that is still afloat but unable to put to sea. The ships were ...

Going to the beach is a big part of Australian culture and, for many people, so are dogs! This book doubles the fun, celebrating all of the different types of dogs that Australians love, from working ...