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Five girls playing a rugby game on a rugby pitch
Photographs of the 2022 Pacifica Youth Rugby Cup
11 Oct 2023

Four photographs of the 2022 Pacifica Youth Rugby Cup have recently been added to our collection.

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A couple smiles at the camera in a formal setting. Susan, with dark hair pulled back, wears a black outfit with gold buttons. Isaac, wearing glasses and a dark pinstriped suit, holds a wine glass in one hand. They are surrounded by a dimly lit background with other people.

Susan Wakil AO and Isaac Wakil AO

Our performing arts collection dazzles on Trove
29 Aug 2024

Thanks to a remarkable gift of $1 million from the Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation, the Library is digitising performing arts material from our incredible collection.

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Over the shoulder of woman using laptop. On her screen she is using Trove to look at digitised handwritten notes from a lecture
Online services unavailable on 9 & 10 December 2023
06 Nov 2023

Online services will be temporarily unavailable so the NLA can undertake planned maintenance.

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A black and white image of a man standing next to a woman holding a child and an umbrella.

Hermann with his cousin Ulla and her daughter, Gabriele, at their home in Maida Vale, date unknown, supplied by Tess Scholfield-Peters.

NLA Publishing to release debut author’s story of love, escape and finding the forgotten
23 Apr 2024

Tess Scholfield-Peters tells her grandfather’s story with three intertwining threads.

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Abstract graphic illustration detail from the the front cover of the book 'Telling Lives'.

Detail from the Telling Lives book cover.

NLA Publishing to release anthology on the craft of biography and life-writing
07 Aug 2024

Telling Lives is a captivating anthology of these lectures, featuring contributions from 17 renowned authors.

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Frank Hurley - Streaming through ice.jpg

Frank Hurley, 'Steaming through light pack-ice, passage is very slow, some hundreds of miles were passed through, [Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911 - 1914]', nla.obj-141792618

NLA Publishing to release a remarkable interpretation of Frank Hurley’s Antarctic diaries​
11 Jan 2024

A new title from NLA Publishing combines daily snapshots from Australian photographic pioneer Frank Hurley’s Antarctic diaries into a moving documentary poetry collage.

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Many grey boulders scattered on a mossy-looking ground cover.

Peter Dombrovskis, Boulders near Summit of Mount Hamilton, Macquarie Island, 1984, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-149207117

NLA Publishing releases 2nd edition of World Heritage Sites of Australia
04 Sep 2023

Nature enthusiasts and booklovers alike are in for a treat as the second edition of the bestselling NLA Publishing title World Heritage Sites of Australia will be released.

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A watercolour illustration of an emu standing on one leg next to a nest of teal eggs

A watercolour illustration from Have You Seen My egg?

NLA Publishing celebrates the 10th anniversary of ‘Have You Seen My Egg?’
16 Feb 2023

To celebrate 10 years of this classic children’s title, NLA Publishing is producing an anniversary edition of Have You Seen My Egg?.

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An old hand-written letter in old style script

Letter by Sir John Franklin to Captain Washington, 15 February 1839, nla.obj-3142222639

Newly acquired correspondence between Sir John Franklin and Captain Washington
13 Nov 2023

A letter from Sir John Franklin to Captain John Washington from 1839 was recently acquired by the Library.

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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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A black and white image of 5 dogs in an old fashioned open top car.

Five bulldogs clambering out of an open top car, New South Wales, c.1930s, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-162452856, courtesy Fairfax Syndication

New NLA Publishing title set to get tails wagging
23 Mar 2023

Australians love dogs—big dogs, little dogs, fluffy couch potatoes and hardy working dogs.

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Illustrations of people and a horse playing instruments and dancing

Illustration from 'Captain Thunderbolt's Recital'

New NLA Publishing children’s book based on a bushranger story
28 Jun 2023

This is one of the unexpected stories of Fred Ward aka Captain Thunderbolt, who was known as the ‘gentleman bushranger’.

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