The fifty watercolours selected for this exhibition have been drawn from a group of 161 works that was offered for sale at Sotheby & Co., London in May 1926 by the grandson of Earle's half-brother. Some years later, the works came into the possession of the New Zealand-born art dealer and collection, Sir Rex Nan Kivell (1898-1977), and together with the rest of his collection, were acquired for  the National Library of Australia in several stages between the 1940s and 1970s, initially by purchase and later by gift.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

The World Upside Down online exhibition is an eyewitness account of Australia through time from 1788 to 1830.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

The World Upside Down online exhibition is an eyewitness account of Australia through time from 1788 to 1830.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

Read the words. Look at the photograhs. Consider the stories. These are images of Australian life; not of life in some far away, alien, impoverished land. They portray young Australians whose parents have come from different cultures and who must cross the bridge into full membership of our society but with their own hopes and dreams intact.
[State Library of NSW ]

Explore what it was like to live in John Curtin's home community as Australia moved from war-time privations to peace and growing prosperity. Covering every thing from getting around, keeping in touch, school, work and having fun, this resource contains a wealth of information, plenty of anecdotes and images and online activities for the adventurous.
[John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

Weird & Wonderful Sydney is a selection of photographs that shows many facets of city life including food, fashion, work, entertainment and advertising. The images document that great post-war period of social change from the early 1950s to the early 1970s.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

On 31 July 1900 Western Australia became the final Australian colony to vote for Federation. An overwhelming majority of voters were in favour of union with the eastern colonies. Within six months the Commonwealth of Australia had been proclaimed - 1 January 1901 - and campaigning for Federal elections had begun.
[Library and Information Service of Western Australia WA ]

William Yang's retrospective exhibition was a personal chronicle of lives and landscape by one of Australia's great photographers. Diaries revealed candid shots of theatrical luminaries, people prominent in public life, those with HIV-AIDS, friends, parties and the landscape of Australia.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

Asked whether she saw herself as a family woman or a career woman, Hazel Hawke, then wife of Bob Hawke, Australia's Prime Minister from 1983 to 1991, answered 'I don't classify myself'. Hazel Hawke shaped her own role as prime minister's wife, becoming a strong and active leader in the community. In this online exhibition, dynamic poster art from the 1980s, along with images, documents, sound and video from Hazel Hawke's years in the Lodge, reveal vividly the issues that she was passionate about.
[John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library ]

South Australia was one of the first places in the world to give women the vote in 1894, and was the first in the world to enable women to enter Parliament.
[State Library of South Australia with the Women's Suffrage Centenary Committee, SA ]