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Aerial photographs

  Geography

Australian birth, death and marriage records

  Family history and genealogy
Grave of William Henry Light

Australian cemetery records

  Family history and genealogy

Australian companies

  Companies
Referendum, 1916 (military service) : are you correctly enrolled for the electoral subdivision for which you are entitled to be enrolled? / J.G. McLaren

Australian electoral rolls

  Family history and genealogy

Australian Indigenous family history

  Family history and genealogy

Australian Indigenous language collections

  Indigenous Australia

Australian Joint Copying Project

  Family history and genealogy
A lawyer in wig and gown reads stands in front of a desk holding a sheaf of paper

Australian legislation

  Law
Young girl reading a book

Australian literature

  Literature
Parish map of Waroo, Country of Murray

Australian maps for family historians

  Family history and genealogy
Newspaper stand in a railway station headlining attempt to kill King, Victoria, 1936, 1 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-152826154

Australian newspapers

  Communications and media
Parliament House in Canberra with helicopters flying overhead

Australian politics and government

  Government and politics
Black and white photograph shows a large ship leaving the Victoria Quay

Australian shipping and passenger records

  Family history and genealogy

Australian topographic maps

  Geography
Olympic wrestler A.E. Ford writing at a desk, part of the Fairfax collection of glass plate negatives

Biography

  Biography
Map from ordnance survey

British and Irish maps for family historians

  Family history and genealogy
Painting of Queen Victoria arriving at the House of Lords to open the first parliament of her reign

British Parliamentary publications and information

  Government publications
Wu cai shi zhu zhai shu hua pu 五彩十竹齋書画譜 by Hu Zhengyan nla.cat-vn2539636 

Chinese Collections

  Asia

Convicts

  Family history and genealogy
Portrait of two girls, Adelie and Toni Hurley, reading a book

Ebooks

  Bibliographic tools

eResources at the National Library

A family standing outside a tin shack called Wiloma during the Great Depression, New South Wales, ca. 1932

Family history

  Family history and genealogy
Souvenir of the Federation of Australia

Federation

  Government and politics
Map of Australia with text 'Australia's first expeditionary force'

First World War

  History
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. 1

Government gazettes

  Government publications
Three examples of immigration passes

Indian emigration passes to Fiji 1879-1916

  Family history and genealogy
High Court of Australia Justice Isaac Isaacs reading in his office, Sydney, ca. 1930

Law reports and court records

  Law
Large number of people gathered at Versailles

League of Nations

  Law
The City of Sydney Polka sheet music

Music

  Music
Overseas newspaper drawers

Overseas Newspapers

  Newspapers
Map of New Caledonia

Overseas series mapping

  Geography
Drawing of a sailing ship near an island with dolphins and birds

Pacific

  Pacific
Australian ballet performance Swan Lake

Performing Arts

  Arts
Demonstrators drape a peace flag over the Coat of Arms, Iraq War protest, Great Verandah, Parliament House, Canberra, 24 March 2003

Protest and Dissent in Australia

  History
Kenins, Ian. (1997). Falcon's player, Cath Adams shoots out a handpass to teammate Bronwyn Hutchinson, Victoria, 1997, nla.obj-146570289.

Sport in Australia

Part of a diagram depicting how to display number 9 on road signs

Standards

  Standards
Part of a map of Queensland showing a graph of comparative state statistics

Statistics

  History
Button 'Vote Yes for Aborigines'

The 1967 Referendum

  Indigenous Australia
Three Torres Strait men wearing head dresses sitting outside a hut

Torres Strait Islands Collection

  Indigenous Australia
Site Plan for the United Nations Headquarters

United Nations

  International organisations and relations
Map of the United States of America

United States Congressional publications and information

  Law
The Special Collections Reading Room

Using the Special Collections Reading Room

An aerial view of bends in the Murry River near Mildura where Red Gums can be seen growing along the rivers edge. The Red Gums furthest from the water are dying.

Weather and Climate

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Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this website contains a range of material which may be considered culturally sensitive including the records of people who have passed away.

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