Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) is the traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expression, and cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples. The Library has developed a protocol to ...

Illustration detail from the NLA Publishing title 'Dog Beach'. Rare instruments, a creative love story and celebrating dogs – there really is something for everyone at the Library this month! The ...

The arrival of the First Fleet on Gadigal land at Sydney Cove in 1788 brought around 1,400 convicts, sailors, soldiers and administrators to Australia. Over the next 100 years the British occupied ...

Suffrage refers to a person’s right to vote in a political election. Voting allows members of society to take part in deciding government policies that affect them. Women’s suffrage refers to the ...

Access to Records by Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Assistance with records searching is available if you are a Forgotten Australian, Former Child Migrant (sometimes referred to as a ...

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Modern History for Senior Secondary students, with specific reference to content descriptions for Unit 2: Movements for Change in the 20th ...

The Australian Poetry Library is a website which contains over 42,000 poems, representing the work of more than 170 Australian poets. Many poets such as Les Murray have websites. Search for the names ...

The arrival of an ancestor in Australia is a key moment in a family's history. They may have arrived as a fare-paying passenger, as an 'assisted' migrant, a member of a ship's crew, in military or ...

Locating the last resting places of our family and forebears can be an important aspect of our genealogical research. For many, it will eventually lead to a journey to those places and to the exact ...

The forebears of José Maria Braga left Portugal in 1712 and settled in the colony of Macau. Two of his great-grandfathers moved to Hong Kong when the colony was established in 1842. His father José ...