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Illustration of 1853 comet

Comet Hunters

Dr Ragbir Bhathal

Ragbir Bhathal takes us along on the search for ‘dirty snowballs’ in the night sky


In this issue: Activist Australia

Photo of receipts, tickets, cards and badges
Jennie Scott Griffiths: A Texas-born ‘Red-Ragger’
Dr Patricia Clarke

Photograph of Franklin dam protesters at the river
The Franklin Blockade
Professor Clive Hamilton

'Awful Execution' pamphlet (detail)
Capital Punishment in Australia
Dr Barry York

In the next issue: child stars of stage and screen, publishing Australian pulp fiction in Scandinavia and more...


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detail of Leonard French chunk glass window
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detail of Blaeu map
Preservation
Engraving detail of 'The Entrance to Port Jackson and Part of the Town of Sydney'
Treasures
detail of woodblock print by Kobori Tomoto
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The Crying Years

by Peter Stanley
Telling the parallel story of Australian soldiers on the frontline and the communities left behind—of women raising families on their own and men forced to choose sides in bitter industrial battles—The Crying Years evokes the drama and tragedy, the suffering and sacrifice of Australia’s Great War.
RRP $44.99


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Illustration of 1853 comet
June 2017
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'The Finding of Pamphlet' illustration (detail, digitally altered)
March 2017
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Lithograph of John Gould's Strix delicatulis
December 2016
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Previous Issues: NLA Magazine All issues

The National Library of Australia Magazine cover featuring ballet dancer Justine Summers
June, 2016
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The National Library of Australia Magazine cover featuring pioneering aviatrix Lores Bonney
March, 2016
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December, 2015
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cover image of William Strutts The LIttle Wanderers
September, 2015
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June 2015 Magazine cover featuring a painting of a sea shell
June, 2015
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Image from the cover of the Australian Women's Weekly of March 2015
March, 2015
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