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Collections online include online exhibitions and digitised collections.
The online exhibitions present curated information to enhance your discovery of the story behind the content. The digitised collections show items which have been digitised as part of our ongoing preservation work.
We have created a range of online exhibitions which enhance and provide curated information on digitised collection items that relate to important events or cultural experiences for Indigenous Australians.
Languages play a crucial role in the daily lives of people, not only as a tool for communication, education, social integration and development, but also as a repository for each person’s unique identity, cultural history, traditions and memory...
In the Centenary of ANZAC, 'The Stafford Brothers' online exhibition commemorates the service and sacrifice of the original ANZACs and tells the story of three Aboriginal servicemen, descendants of the Darug (Warmuli Clan)/Gamilaroi....
In 1988, Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Wenten Rubuntja presented then Prime Minister Bob Hawke with The Barunga Statement. View this nationally significant declaration and related items from the AIATSIS Collection.
This section features collection items which have been digitised as part of our ongoing collection preservation work.
The Aborigine's Inland Mission published the Our Aim newsletter between 1907 and 1961, and the Australian Evangel newsletter between 1930 and 1966.
The Koori Mail digitised collection is the only complete online archive for the Koori Mail – Australia's fortnightly national Indigenous newspaper. It was launched on 4 May 2011, which was also the date of publication for the Koori Mail's 500th edition.
The A.M. Fernando Notebooks exhibition concentrates on a very specific time in Fernando’s life by presenting digital copies of the London notebooks of A M Fernando 1929–30, and introduces you to the life of this remarkable man.
The Dawn and New Dawn digitised collection is the only complete online archive of these magazines which were issued between 1952-1975 by the New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board.
Ann Curthoys' diaries have become an essential piece of historical material that tells the story of the 1965 Freedom Ride. Members of the Student Action for Aborigines (SAFA) organisation also produced many useful items that provide insight into this watershed moment in Australian history.
This online exhibition pays tribute to the life and career of the Australian ethnomusicologist, Alice Marshall Moyle (1908-2005).
AIATSIS acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, culture and community.
We pay our respects to elders past and present.
