Government and politics

A selection of publicly donated referendum items in our collection.

Australia : candidate for the United Nations Security Council 2013-14, Commonwealth of Australia, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn5156785

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. 1, 1 January 1901, in which the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed from the Papers of Sir Edmund Barton, 1827-1940, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-224669092

Corflutes donated from the 2013 election, with NLA staff members

Faith Bandler and Jerry Rind, Yes for Aborigines : write yes for Aborigines in the lower square May 27th, 1967, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136875607

Corflutes donated from the 2013 election, with NLA staff members

National Union of Australian University Students / Australian Union of Students, AUS & you: students working together, 1981, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-450381672

National Capital Development Commission, Sketch of the National Library of Australia, 1962, nla.obj-150872437

Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue, image by Leanna King, courtesy of the Lowitja Institute