Helping to preserve our cultural heritage

Lists of previous Community Heritage Grant recipients, as well as assessment reports and project reports where available.

Explore items from the National Railway Museum's collection and their significance to Australian railway history.

Explore the collection at the Miss Porter's House museum and the projects it undertook through the CHG program.

Learn about May Gibbs' Nutcote, recipient of a 2024 Community Heritage Grant.

The Federal Register of Legislation (the Legislation Register) is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents.

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The idea of Federation of the states had been discussed in Australia from about 1850, with the movement gaining real momentum in 1889 after a speech by veteran New South Wales politician Sir Henry Parkes.

Fifty years on, see how the destruction and impact of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin 1974 is captured in our collection. 

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Learn about the environmental legacies of Cook's voyages including the impact on Australia's natural resources, Aboriginal land-management practices and connections to contemporary environmental activism.

The Library's policies and plans about the collections.