Dear Colleagues,
The Geelong Heritage Centre celebrated the visit of our 100,000th visitor since opening in our new location at the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre just two years ago.
Students from St Mary's Primary School visited the Heritage Centre
SEPTEMBER 28 2017 - 1:43PM
In selling West and East Block, will we sell off our heritage, too?
Peter Dowling
I rec
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Volunteers rescue thousands of books from Mosul library destroyed by Islamic State
By Linda Mottram and Connie Agius
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The National Archives will temporarily relocate to Old Parliament House as the federal government adds another historic parliamentary tria
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Law change means e
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Canberra Railway Museum thrown 11th-hour lifeline that may prevent carriage sell-off
ABC Radio Canberra By Penny Travers, 26 July 2017
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Sacred Aboriginal objects returned to Central Australia, century after collected by museums
ABC News - AM, by Steven Schubert, 24 July 20
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Canberra Railway Museum forced to sell off historic train carriages
ABC Radio Canberra , 13 July 2017, By Hannah Walmsley
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Australia's first flag forgotten, found and restored all in 100 years
By Jake Sturmer
Updated about 7 hours ago
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Heritage Library leave
Two of the Parliamentary Triangle's original buildings will be sold in a landmark privatisation within Canberra's original public service precinct.
Finance minister Ma
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Historically import
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Libraries winners
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Planning underway for multi-million-dollar redevelopment and expansion of Broken Hill's archives
By Declan Gooch
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Community Heritage Grants open on 6 March
Applications open next week for the 2017 round of Community Heritage Grants of up to $
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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,
Applications for the City of Parramatta Community Grants are still open.
We're looking for research projects which will explore topics as diverse as Aboriginal heritage, social and cultural histories encompassing immigrant communities, significant her
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Warlpiri Drawings included in Memory of the World Register
Thursday, 9 February 2017 - 12:15 pm
Photograph: (L-R) David Jeffery, AIATSIS, Gerald Wa
State Library NSW gets $15 million facelift to help transform into 'global cultural destination'
FEBRUARY 1 2017 - 7:42AM
Andrew Taylor
The State Library of NSW has long provided a sandstone sanctuary for readers and researchers.
Millionaire industrialis
JANUARY 9 2017 - 4:48 PM
A piece of Braidwood's Chinese history to feature in major exhibitio
