By 1918, the First World War had been in progress for over three years, and thousands of Australians had already been killed or wounded. During the last year of the war, Australian soldiers had the opportunity to serve alongside men of many different nationalities, as well as to mix with French civilians.
[Australian War Memorial, ACT ]

Discover how Melbourne won the right to host the Games from The Games Bid. Some of the issues and problems involved in organising the Games are described in Preparations and Melbourne and the World. Revisit some of the great moments in The Games. The Melbourne Games became known as The Friendly Games yet were held at a time of extreme interNational political tension summarised in World Events.
[State Library of Victoria , VIC ]

One memory of childhood is always wanting to draw or paint. This is my earliest memory and will be my last, I think, that I must put something on paper or canvas or whatever within reach. From an interview with Nora Heysen, 25 August 1994. Oral History Collection.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

On his first major field trip after being appointed assistant entomologist at the South Australian Museum in 1918, Norman Tindale sketched the tribal Aboriginal boundaries in the Groote Eylandt and Roper River area of the Northern Territory. His map was edited before publication and the boundaries removed on the basis that Aborigines were wanderers with no fixed attachments to land...
[South Australian Museum, SA ]

Photographs of the North Esk Wharves from the local studies collection of the Launceston Reference Library.
[Launceston Reference Library, TAS ]