Collection: History Support Collection

This book documents the often controversial development of water policy and administration in New South Wales. This includes the origins of water usage from the ingenious hydraulic systems of the Aborigines to the discovery by the First Fleet in 1788.

The atlas is a comprehensive compendium of New South Wales political history over 150 years. Electoral mapping is recreated from original sources and it documents voting systems and results since the introduction of responsible government in 1856.

Tender poems on the death of his wife, witty Philip Larkin apercus, meditations on the spiritual need of Australians for Europe, hard-eyed satire as a political fixer dismisses as out-of-date the instruments of torture in the Tower of London: John Upton's range is broad and his poetic skills acco...

Brings together a range of information relating to the types of employment which characterise the West and some of the dimensions of unemployment in the region.

Biographical stories of families and individuals who are buried in Emu Plains General Cemetery

Provides basic information as to the design of a time capsule and the preservation of its contents.