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Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-15/volunteers-save-thousands-of-books-from-mosul-library/8949496?section=good-news

Volunteers rescue thousands of books from Mosul library destroyed by Islamic State

By Linda Mottram and Connie Agius

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Quoting from http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/unsw-canberra-to-open-john-howard-library-at-old-parliament-house-20170816-gxxgxp.html

Canberra Times, Emily Baker, 16 August 2017

UNSW Canberra to open John Howard library at Old Parliament House 

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Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-13/canberra-railway-museum-forced-to-sell-off-historic-trains/8704552

Canberra Railway Museum forced to sell off historic train carriages

ABC Radio Canberra , 13 July 2017, By Hannah Walmsley

8240831089?profile=originalPHOTO: Austra

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Quoting from http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/jan-mller-named-as-new-national-film-and-sound-archive-boss-20170704-gx4iba.html

JULY 5 2017 - 10:31AM

 

Jan Müller named as new National Film and Sound Archive boss

 

Tom McIlroy

 

The boss of the Nethe

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Quoting from http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/geoff-pryor-donates-his-canberra-times-cartoons-to-national-library-of-australia-20170628-gx0bss.html

JUNE 28 2017 - 8:25PM

Geoff Pryor donates his Canberra Times cartoons to National

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Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2017/s4692782.htm

ABC 7.30 report “Items possibly belonging to Breaker Morant found on country rubbish tip”

 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Broadcast: 27/06/2017

Reporter: Peter McCuthcheon

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Nazi artefacts don't belong in a Holocaust museum, Sydney Jewish Museum historian says

The World Today 

By David Coady

VIDEO: The Nazi cache that could pin Hitler's missing

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Rags to riches: the papers of Australia’s first self-made millionaire

He might have been Australia’s first self-made millionaire,

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Quoting from https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/fannys-memory-world

FANNY’S MEMORY OF THE WORLD
COCHRANE SMITH ACKNOWLEDGED BY UNESCO
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BY ROD BUTLER

Image of Fanny Cochrane Smith and Horace Watson courtesy Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

On 9 February

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Quoting from http://aiatsis.gov.au/news-and-events/news/warlpiri-drawings-included-memory-world-register

Warlpiri Drawings included in Memory of the World Register

Thursday, 9 February 2017 - 12:15 pm

 

Photograph: (L-R) David Jeffery, AIATSIS, Gerald Wa

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Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-23/didgeridoos-from-more-than-100-years-ago-restored/8145282

SA Museum, Yolngu people breathe new life into didgeridoos from 1880s

By Sarah Collard Posted 23 Dec 2016, 3:31pm

PHOTO: Yolngu Elder Djalu Gurr

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Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-28/rare-model-train-collection-donated-ipswich-museum/8100116

Rare model train collection donated to Queensland museum after being kept in secret

By Alyssa Betts

A secret collection of model trains that ne

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SLQ WINS THE GALLERY AND MUSEUM ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR “PEACE AND QUIET”

23 NOV 2016|LIBRARIAN

 

State Library’s Signature Program team are celebrating their win at last night’s 2016 Gallery and Museum Achievement Awards (GAMAA). The team were recognised

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Ford faithful's fight to keep Australian archive

  • By Peter Robinson
  • Sep 02, 2016

Ford Australia historical archives

FORMER Ford Australia executives have demanded the Federal Government step in to prevent the export of Ford’s local archives. Under the Moveable Heritage laws, they believe

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