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A comic panel on yellowed newspaper paper. A large well-dressed man wearing a top hat that says 'Capital' is pushing a wheelbarrow marked 'Federal Capital' which is full of material marked 'Unearned increments'. He is pushing it towards a a man dressed in workwear wearing a hat marked 'NSW Elector'. The title below the comic reads 'A One-sided Affair'

(1880) The Bulletin, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-683703369

Media and information literacy

Module 

A resource for educators teaching digital and/or media literacy in their classrooms. 

Digital Classroom
The front page of the Tribune newspaper. The headline reads 'USA FORCED TO DROP CUBA INVASION'. There is a black and white photograph of 5 people holding protest signs.

(1962, October 31). Tribune (Sydney, NSW : 1939 - 1991), p. 1, nla.gov.au/nla.news-page25610837

Print media: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Topic

Under legal deposit provisions of the Copyright Act (1968), one copy of everything that is published in Australia must be lodged with the National Library of Australia. As a result, the Library’s collection holds a vast array of Australia’s printed news media.

Digital Classroom
Bold Types
Bookmark This podcast, Season 2: Bold Types

Season two, Bold Types, is hosted by political reporter and author Amy Remekis. Based on the book by Dr Patricia Clarke, Bold Types celebrates the pioneering women who took the world of journalism by storm, with each episode featuring contemporary female journalists reflecting on their experiences and those of their forebears.

Audio
Fellowships 2023 Yahia Ma
Q&A with 2023 Asian Study Grant recipient Yahia Zhengtang Ma

Yahia’s research examined the Chinese ‘homosexual’ men’s lived experience as represented in the Australian-Chinese language newspapers, magazines, and digital media.

Blog
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Watch Dr Kate Warren's Fellowship presentation titled 'Cut-out-and-keep: magazines and the popularisation of Australian art in the 1950s and 1960s'.

Q&A with 2022 National Library of Australia Fellow Dr Kate Warren

Kate’s research focused on the role of popular magazines in Australian art history and arts communication in the 1950s and 1960s.


 

Blog
Research program
Cover of the book 'Bold Types: How Australia's First Women Journalists Blazed a Trail'
Bold Types: How Australia's First Women Journalists Blazed a Trail

Patricia Clarke

Book
NLA Publishing book
Nine medals awarded to J.P. and J.M. Braga, including an OBE awarded to J.P. Braga

Medals awarded to J.P. and J.M. Braga, including an OBE awarded to J.P. Braga, 1935, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-147186954

Braga Collection

Family papers, maps of the Hong Kong and Macau region, pictures, photographs and a large collection of books and pamphlets predominantly historical works, particularly histories of Portugal, the Portuguese colonies, China and Japan.

Collection guide
Black and white photo of a television studio from the 1960s, with large cameras, screens and spotlights

Wolfgang Sievers & Hassel (Firm), Television set at Ballarat television station, by architects Hassell & McConnell, Victoria, 1962, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-160888519

Film, television and media

Learn how to find and access the Library's vast and diverse collection around film, television and media history.

Learning activity for adults
Video
Collection guide
McHugh Collection

Recordings of interviews made by McHugh while producing various series for the ABC and also when working on her book Minefields and Miniskirts, together with papers and manuscripts.

Collection guide
Collection guide
Sturgess Collection

108 oral history interviews recorded by Sturgess between 1976 and 1986 while writing his two books and working on various ABC productions.

Collection guide

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