The Palestine that Australia recognised in 2025 did not suddenly enter our national story: it’s been there — in the archives and diplomatic records — for a long time, and it’s time we recover it.

The tale of a struggling Australian media company, a shady American photo archive, an FBI raid, and two million vintage Australian photographs stranded in Arkansas will have a happy ending, thanks to ...

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is to receive an additional AU$41.9 million (US$29.5m) in Federal Government funding to save at-risk audiovisual heritage and build a new backup ...

It's not your usual archaeological dig, but rifling through boxes of soil at the Australian National Soil Archive reveals more than meets the eye. The collection, stored in shipping containers at the ...

The National Library of Australia has just launched its Australian Web Archive – a massive, freely accessible collection of content that provides a historical record of the development of world wide ...

A government-run archive of the Australian internet is unintentionally capturing thousands of web pages written by artificial intelligence. Since the 1990s, the National Library of Australia (NLA) has ...

Historical articles from the Guardian, selected by @guardianlibrary. To explore over 200 years of history see our page on accessing past articles Originally published in the Guardian on 3 July 1973: ...

Advertised as a world’s first, an Australian auction house has announced the sale of “Australia’s most significant photographic collection,” which will be accompanied by NFTs that will provide proof ...

“The Australian Web Archive [AWA] is one of the biggest in the world. And when we say big, we mean enormous,” says director general of the National Library of Australia, Dr Marie-Louise Ayres. The new ...

As a controversial decade in charge of the nation’s most treasured collections ends this week, Mr Fricker says he holds no regrets despite facing accusations of censorship and a funding crisis during ...