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Three framed photographs on a blue wall with a wave pattern at the bottom, along with text reading 'Exhibition', 'Hopes and Fears' and 'Australian Migration Stories'
New exhibition opens this week at the National Library of Australia
25 Jul 2024

Hopes & Fears: Australian Migration Stories showcases how migrants, who have come from all parts of the globe, have helped to make Australia one of the most diverse nations in the world.

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Portrait photograph of Margaret Tucker MBE

'Portrait of Mrs. Margaret Tucker', c.1976, State Library of Victoria, H2019.87/4, Courtesy Dennis Mayor

New edition of Margaret Tucker’s autobiography to be released by NLA Publishing
19 Mar 2024

Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences.

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Hot air balloon flying over a huge lake and desert area that stretches out towards the horizon at dawn

Andrew Chapman, Hot air ballooning over Lake Eyre when the lake is in flood, South Australia, 30 June 2010, nla.obj-138042325

Natural wonders around Australia
17 Jan 2024

Explore natural landmarks including lakes, caves, beaches and forests around Australia with the Library's collection.

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Mobile phone screen showing the Trove website
National Library welcomes announcement of ongoing Trove funding
03 Apr 2023

National Library welcomes announcement of ongoing Trove funding

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Woman looking at items in a filing cabinet in library stacks
National Library of Australia set to evolve national resource sharing
07 May 2024

The Library is making it easier for Trove Partner organisations to provide inter-library loan and document copying service to their patrons.

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A laptop sitting on a desk with a stylised purple book on the screen.
National Library of Australia launches modernised Catalogue
31 Jul 2023

The National Library of Australia has launched its modernised Catalogue making it easier for patrons to search the Library’s collections.

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An illustration from 'Amazing Grace and the Sinking Ship' of four people riding a horse through waves away from a sinking ship.

Illustration from 'Amazing Grace and the Sinking Ship', a story from 'Courageous Kids'

Multi-award-winning Heritage Heroes series to be released in new hardback bind-up edition
30 Oct 2023

Courageous Kids and Their Amazing Adventures by Stephanie Owen Reeder and Liz Duthie

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Family history desk common questions blog
Most common family history questions we get asked at the Library: Part 2
25 Aug 2023

In our second blog, find out how to find information on births, deaths, addresses and property records.

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National Library Special Collections Research and support Team
Most common family history questions we get asked at the Library: Part 1
17 Aug 2023

In the first of two blogs, learn about birth certificates, First Nations family history, electoral rolls, and cemetery records.

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Grit and Gold gallery game begins
More than a medal: An introduction to Grit & Gold
16 Jun 2023

Sport is a storytelling machine. And for Australians that machine is prolific. Our popular imagination is crowded with stories drawn from sporting contests.

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Sketch of boy riding a horse through a forrest fire, with black ink and messy colouring
Meet the 'Courageous Kids'
06 Nov 2023

Stephanie Owen Reeder’s Heritage Heroes series celebrates stories of incredible survival, persistence and resilience by young people.

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A portion of a handwritten poem that reads 'Invocation. Come forth from thy oozy couhc, O Ornithorynchus dear, And great with a cordial claw The stranger that longs to hear.'
Mark Twain's ode to Australian wildlife
08 Feb 2024

The Library recently acquired an original draft of a poem by Mark Twain in the form of a letter.

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