Search

The collection features Fay Zwicky's handwritten journals from 1975-2012; drafts of her writings including poetry and prose; professional and personal correspondence, 1950s-2000s, including letters of Glenda Adams, Robert Adamson, Alec Bolton, Lily Brett, David Brooks, Rosemary Dobson, Helen Garner, Gwen Harwood, Dorothy Hewett, A.D. Hope, Lily Kahan, Denise Levertov, Merv Lilley and Peter Taylor; photographs; publications, newspapers clippings and other printed material; research files and administrative papers.

The collection documents many aspects of Zubrzycki's long career as an academic with the Australian National University and his participation in a number of organisations and government bodies. These include the Australian Ethnic Affairs Council, the Australian Immigration Advisory Council, the National Multicultural Advisory Council, Australian Aid to Poland, the World Health Organisation Fourth World Project, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican and the National Museum of Australia.

A small collection of letters, mostly written to P.L. Sclater, relating to the discovery of new species of animals, birds and fishes in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand, and to the conservation and exchange of animals between zoos.

On 14 October 2023, Australians voted in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. This collection documents polling places, signage, posters, and volunteers and voters in various places throughout the Sydney metropolitan area and Western suburbs, New South Wales, including the suburbs of Burwood, Forest Lodge, Glebe, Leichhardt, Lidcombe, Redfern, and Ultimo.

Collection comprises 96 original manuscript music scores, composed by Julian Yu, and two hard drives containing digital reference copies of the music scores.

Records of the Youth Affairs Council of Australia (YACA) and its predecessor, the National Youth Council of Australia (NYCA).

The collection comprises manuscript music scores, tape recordings, notebooks and other papers that provide a complete record of Dr Young's long career as a choirmaster and composer.

Diaries 1951-52 of Archbishop Cyril Garbett kept on his visits to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Calendar of prisoners 1828-1853 in the House of Correction, including details of convicts under sentence of transportation.

MS 6947 comprises drafts, correspondence and research notes, some relating to books by York: The Maltese in Australia (1986), Canberra: our Italian heritage (with Salvatore Gambale and Aldo Bongiorno, 1988), Josephine Zammit M.B.E.: a Maltese woman in Australia (1989), Student revolt: La Trobe University 1967 to 1973 (1989), Metropolitan ghettoes and ethnic concentrations (1990), Emmanuel Attard: from Gozo (Malta) to Gallipoli and Australia (1994), Empire and race: the Maltese in Australia 1881-1949 (1990), and, Our multicultural heritage 1788-1945: an annotated guide to the collections of the National Library of Australia (1995). Other papers include those relating to the campaign for the release of Bill O'Meally; the Ned Kelly centenary celebrations, 1980; Bob Hawke; Charles Darwin; general correspondence 1991-1996 as well as correspondence relating to the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1986-1996; a copy of York's doctoral thesis on Maltese immigration in Australia; and one Eureka flag and flagpole.