History - Modern

Date range: 1788-1901
Geographical focus: Australasia
First person accounts of early life in Australia, including letters, diaries, narratives, Government documents, maps and pictures.

Date range: 20th Century
Geographical focus: Australia
The Reason in Revolt project aims to bring together primary source documents of Australian radicalism as an accessible digitised resource.

Database with emphasis on current events from 1993. Source documents for current events include main state and territory papers, chiefly "The Age" and "The Australian" and national news journals, reports and other publications.

Access to newspapers and magazines online, including film and television reviews.

The service includes newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies, as well as some later issues to 1982. The first Australian newspaper, published in Sydney in 1803, is included in the service.

Australian Public Affairs - full text, is produced by the National Library of Australia and covers a broad range of material on the social sciences and humanities.

Database with emphasis on current events from 1993. Source documents for current events include main state and territory papers, chiefly "The Age" and "The Australian" and national news journals, reports and other publications.

Produced by the Dept. of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, the Australian Heritage Database contains information about more than 20,000 natural, historic and Indigenous places. The database includes places in the World Heritage List, places in the National Heritage List, places in the Commonwealth Heritage list, places in the Register of the National Estate, places in the List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance to Australia, places under consideration, or that may have been considered for, any one of these lists. Photographs of the place (if available) are included through links to the Australian heritage photographic library.

This collection is from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ASTIC) Library. Source documents include Commonwealth gazettes, media/press releases, speeches and conference papers, pamphlets, booklets and ephemera, book chapters, journal and newspaper articles, Hansard, cases and judgments, books, reports, conference proceedings, theses and videos.