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Stories
Latest stories
Ethel Turner gets personal
A new acquisition reveals the personal and professional lives of one of Australia’s best-known authors.
Library tourism
by Mark Dapin
Mark Dapin’s wish-list of the most beautiful libraries in the world to visit.
Peter Kingston’s kingdom
by Elizabeth Fortescue
Elizabeth Fortescue writes about the late artist’s Lavender Bay home, a work of art itself.
The Flying Pieman of Sydney, en pointe
by Anna Corkhill
Rediscovering costume drawings for a ballet that never was.
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Art & life: Cressida Campbell
by Elizabeth Fortescue
As she finalises work for her landmark exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, Sydney artist Cressida Campbell invites Openbook into her studio.
Calling the Koori Knockout
by Brad Cooke
One of the most important sporting and cultural events on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander calendar returns.
Enemy aliens
by Kate Garrett, Andrew McNamara and Seumas Spark
Artworks — never before seen — by some of the ‘Dunera boys’ go on display in Orange, the place where many of the works were created.
Coming Out in the 70s
Gay and lesbian life went public in the 70s. Speaking up and standing out, gay men and women took to the streets proudly demanding to be seen, heard and accepted.
These chapters draw from stories and records in the Library’s collection to explore how the gay and lesbian rights movement emerged in NSW in the 1970s.