Collection: Reference

History of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and its predecessor the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics. Subject areas such as economic statistics, the census, social statistics, prices statistics, methodology and technology in the Bureau...

In September 2001 an inquiry was held into public education in NSW. Taking a year to complete, the investigators held 28 public hearings around the state, visited 150 schools and received 770 submissions from the public.

Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America's strategy to recapture the Philippines and defeat Japan. They encountered a country full of reassuring similarities and strange differences

Traces the complexity of the Movement through the decades across the globe. Interweaves the general with the particular: overarching ideology and its various strands with ways in which it manifested itself in different regions and cultural traditions.

Tells the story of every spacecraft mission to the Moon since the dawn of the space age, illustrating each account with a unique combination of maps and annotated photographs.