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Patricia Clarke

The map includes details of the first sighting of Tasmania by Europeans and the first mapping of New Zealand.

Oral history recordings by Barbara Blackman, mostly of Australian painters, sculptors, potters and others concerned with the visual arts.

Find out how to access and use BDM records to link generations and branches of your family.

Judith Wright, introduction by Meredith McKinney

A guide to finding biographies.

A bill is a proposal for a law or a change to an existing law. A Commonwealth bill can be introduced into either house of Parliament, unless it is a money bill which must be introduced in the lower house.

The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ) held their annual two-day conference at the National Library in 2024.

Papers, including manuscripts on Philippine ethnography, books and pamphlets in various languages on a wide range of subjects with a focus on the Philippines, photographs and printed and manuscript maps collected by Henry Otley Beyer.