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100 Not Out - a century of Queensland sporting memories
100 Not Out - a century of Queensland sporting memories

100 Not Out honours Queensland sporting achievers and achievements over the past century, from the days when Indigenous boxer Jerry Jerome was as much a household name as Alfie Langer is today. Featuring 48 athletes and six of the most memorable Queensland sporting moments, 100 Not Out is a selective exhibition of Queensland's sporting history. Curator Robert Longhurst explains, “ The aim was to create a gallery of household names of sporting identities; Queenslanders who have achieved national and international recognition and prominence.
[State Library of Queenland, QLD ]


100 Years of Queensland Aboriginal Life

History and photographs showcasing a century of Aboriginal life in Queensland since 1897
[State Library of Queenland, QLD ]

100 Years of Queensland Aboriginal Life

On Track: John Curtin's Railway Journeys

John Curtin had a lifelong link with train travel. Experience train travel as it was from 1917 when the trans Australia line first spanned the continent until the mid 1940s. Images, film clips and the memories of the people who travelled with John Curtin bring this story alive.
[John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]


One People, One Destiny: Celebrating the Centenary of Federation

One People, One Destiny: Celebrating the Centenary of Federation is a display illustrating the gestation of Federation over a period of 60 years, from the first mutterings amongst the Colonial states to the writing and debate of the constitution and the official ceremonies and celebrations..
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]


Oscar Sketchbook

This notebook is a rare and significant record of an Aboriginal child's memories of life in the late 1800s in far North Queensland. Oscar was an Aboriginal boy from the Palmer River people of North Queensland.
[National Museum of Australia, ACT ]


Our Nation's Album - The Library's First 100 Years

In 1901 a Commonwealth Parliamentary Library was established to serve the newly formed Federal Parliament of Australia. In time, this Library would evolve into the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library and the National Library of Australia, but the drive to collect and document the Australian identity was there from the beginning. .
[National Libray of Austraia, ACT ]


Out in the Cold : Australia's involvement in the Korean War

In the aftermath of the Second World War (1939-1945), communities were still coming to terms with the devastation which that conflict had caused, and the millions it had killed. Yet only five years after the end of this war, another was to break out, and again Australia would commit its forces. It was the Korean War.
[Australian War Memorial, ACT ]


The Occult

This exhibition displays material from the Rare Book Collection covering the fields of witchcraft, spiritualism, alchemy and mesmerism. Objects from private collections are also on display.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]


Last modified: January 12 2005.