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Three framed photographs on a blue wall with a subtle wave pattern.
Hopes and Fears: Australian Migration Stories
26 Jul 2024 - 02 Feb 2025

Explore the journeys that have shaped our nation’s history.

Exhibition
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Assistance animals welcome
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Wheelchair accessible
The book cover of 'Flora' by Tania McCartney and a sketchbook with colouring pencils.
School holiday activity: Nature Journalling - Tue 1 Oct, 10am - 11am
01 Oct - 01 Oct 2024

As flowers blossom across Canberra, join us these school holidays to create nature journals!

Event
For kids and families
School holiday event
The book cover of 'Flora' by Tania McCartney and a sketchbook with colouring pencils.
School holiday activity: Nature Journalling - Tue 1 Oct, 1pm - 2pm
01 Oct - 01 Oct 2024

As flowers blossom across Canberra, join us these school holidays to create nature journals!

Event
For kids and families
School holiday event
Five photographs of people smiling. Three of the photographs are of women and two are of men.
Hopes and Fears: Australian Migration Stories panel discussion
01 Oct - 01 Oct 2024

Join a panel of special guests for a conversation about their own personal and professional stories around migration, and how our country can best recognise the extraordinary contribution that migrants make to contemporary Australia.

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Talks and ideas

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Black and white photo of two women, Dorothy Tangney and Enid Lyons, walking together towards the entrance of Old Parliament House

Photo of Dorothy Tangney and Enid Lyons entering Parliament House in 1943, from the Papers of Dorothy Margaret Tangney, 1938-1986, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3190082597

'They gave me a marvellous reception': Australian women, democracy and the 1943 Federal Election
13 Sep 2024

Explore the papers of three women involved in the 1943 Federal Election: Enid Lyons, Dorothy Tangney and Jessie Street.

Blog
A handwritten diary entry in an old fashioned script.

George Thomson, Diary entry for Tuesday 26 May 1868, Diary of George Thomson, 1868-1869, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3308197449

Indigenous Australian cricket team touring England in the 1860s
12 Sep 2024

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

News
Celia Craig, a woman with very short brown hair, smiling and holding large book of sheet music with the title 'Symphonic Overture'
Exploring the letters of legendary musician Miriam Hyde with Celia Craig
11 Sep 2024

Read about Creative Arts Fellow Celia Craig's experience of exploring the papers of musician Miriam Hyde.

Blog
Illustrated flowers and beetle details from the front cover of the book 'Flora: Australia's Most Curious Plants'.

Cover detail from Flora: Australia's Most Curious Plants.

Uncover the wonders of Australia’s plants with Tania McCartney’s latest book ‘Flora’
10 Sep 2024

Get ready to go on a captivating journey through Australia's botanical wonders with Flora: Australia’s Most Curious Plants by Tania McCartney.

Media release
Two people standing next to each other, smiling. One has shoulder-length dark brown hair and wears glasses and a dark blue dress with a bow detail at the neckline. The other has short dark hair, also wearing glasses, and a black jacket with a floral pattern on the lapel, along with a name tag.

Catherine Law (Opalgate Foundation) and Alice Wong (NLA council) at the 2024 NLA Patron dinner

New online programs for lifelong learning
29 Aug 2024

With the Opalgate Foundation’s support, we are creating a new lifelong learning space on our website.

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