Featured collections

In the late 1920s, a lone Australian Aboriginal man stood outside Australia House in London protesting the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia. His notebooks offer a glimpse into his life in London and reflect his views on the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia.

Our AIM and The Australian Evangel newsletters were published by the Aborigines’ Inland Mission (AIM); an evangelical Christian mission which began in 1905.

The Dawn collection is the only complete online archive of these magazines which were issued between 1915 to 1969 by the New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board.

Monthly magazine produced by the New South Wales Department of Youth, Ethnic and Community Services reflecting the times between 1970 to 1975.

Explore the complete online archive of Australia’s fortnightly national Indigenous newspaper dating back to 1991.

Ann Curthoys' diaries have become an essential piece of historical material that tells the story of the 1965 Freedom Ride.

We hold the largest collection of Jimmy Pike’s original artworks which includes over 440 individual artworks, many adapted by Desert Designs in the 1980s and 1990s into internationally renowned fashion.

This collection contains the full text of the annual reports of all state and territory ‘protection boards' and the subsequent government agencies. The state and territory government legislation featured was originally compiled for the Bringing Them Home Report.