National Library of Australia
Visitor facilities. Acknowledgement of Country. 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 and present – and through them to all Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Newspapers - National Library of Australia
Oct 8, 1990 · Our Library cooperates with the state and territory libraries through the Australian Newspaper Plan to collect, preserve and provide access to Australian newspapers, with each library taking responsibility for newspapers published in their jurisdiction. Overseas newspapers—we have the largest collection of overseas newspapers in Australia.
Online - National Library of Australia
A large range of current and historic Australian newspapers in digital format can be directly accessed online via Trove and our eResources portal.. Trove. Trove's digitised Australian newspapers provides numerous historical Australian newspapers published between 1803 to 1954.It includes national titles as well as those published in each Australian state and territory.
Life Under the Shoguns - National Library of Australia
Bushidō, (武士道 – The way of the warrior) was the code of conduct of the samurai and the bushi (武士 – warrior) class under the feudal rule of the shoguns. By the 1800s, Bushidō was the basis of the ideal ethical and moral way of life for the majority of Japanese society. The Bushido code varied throughout the centuries, but its one ...
Commonwealth - National Library of Australia
Use the online catalogue to find and retrieve material using your library login. Key resources include: The acts of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia – the Library holds the complete set of this series. The series comprises the Commonwealth numbered acts, i.e. acts as first passed by the Parliament, in chronological order.
Timeline—Events that led to the 1967 Referendum
1967— Prime Minister Harold Holt announces that the Constitution Alteration Bill has passed in both Houses of Parliament allowing for a referendum to be called on whether or not Australia should change the wording of the constitution. The date is set for 27 May 1967. The constitution is formally changed on 10 August 1967.
Civil Rights Movements - National Library of Australia
Civil rights for some Australians have only been earned after many years of protest and advocacy. While there have been many protests for civil rights in Australia, this section will focus on what the Library has material to provide information on. Below you will find information about the Aboriginal Day of Mourning, the Freedom Ride, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protest, Change the Date ...
Commonwealth Electoral Rolls for family history
Aug 20, 2019 · The National Library holds Commonwealth electoral rolls from 1903. The most recent rolls the Library has on microfiche are from 2008 – the Library also holds 2009 in hardcopy. This means we can’t help with any enquiries requesting a search of the electoral rolls beyond 2009. Pre and post 1990 arrangement of Commonwealth electoral rolls on ...
Challenging Terra Nullius - National Library of Australia
Terra nullius — meaning land belonging to no-one — was the legal concept used by the British government to justify the settlement of Australia. Focusing on the work of Bruce Pascoe, this theme explores evidence of Indigenous agriculture and settlement in pre-colonial Australia—information that challenges the terra nullius claim. While ...
Australian cemetery records - National Library of Australia
council and private cemetery registers/records. funeral director or undertaker records. monumental inscriptions (listings of gravemarkers, memorial plaques and monuments) newspaper funeral notices. The Library may provide access to information from some of these sources in various forms, including: websites. online subscription databases. cd-roms.