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What’s your idea of the Australian Dream? In our new exhibition, architecture and design enthusiast Tim Ross explores the idea of home with fascinating finds from the Library’s collection. “For a long time, we’ve been told that the Australian dream means a quarter-acre block, a Hills Hoist, and a Holden in the drive way. But that’s never been the whole story,” says @modernister. Come and see highlights including drawings by icons like Nino Sydney and Peter Muller, to archival photographs and foo

This week we welcomed our new Summer Fellows! Each year the Library offers a number of prestigious fellowships to support the study, writing and teaching of Australian history and culture. Over the next few months these researchers will be delving into our archives to uncover fascinating stories and bring fresh perspectives. We’re especially thrilled to welcome our inaugural Summer Fellows (Architecture), in partnership with Architecture Insights. We can’t wait to see their diverse projects come

Let’s take a look inside. 👀 ‘This Ferral Australis’ by John Hinds is an artists’ book that explores ideas of language, history and colonisation. It’s a concertina book, made from one piece of paper folded back and forth in a zig-zag pattern, and is wrapped in maritime canvas covers with a red wax seal. As you unfold the book, you can see where the artist has printed over facsimiles of colonial publications and documents with animal skulls, antique suns and fake ‘Shakespearean’ sonnets. This is