A perfect paw-trait 🐾 This border collie was trained to ride the drover’s horse on Twitchem Estate, Mount Barker in 1967. Her pup needed a little more time to to learn! NAA: A1200, L62809

Happy 96th birthday to the timeless #AngelaLansbury!

🧒 Children's Week (23–31 October) celebrates the right of children to enjoy childhood. It is also a time for children demonstrate their talents, skills, and abilities. #childrensweekqld 🖼️ See more images like this: flickr.com/photos/queensl… ITM1484171 #QSArchives

Every Halloween needs a good monster! This is the alleged Hook Island Monster, photographed by Robert Le Serrec in 1964 in the Whitsunday Islands. This impressive (but hoaxed) image captured the public imagination both at the time and to the present day. NAA: A1861, 8112

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#NextGenGenie - we will be working on expanding our🧑🏽‍🎓 membership with on-campus connections in the new year - would love to hear from any Australian-based university students wanting to be involved

We are looking for a Librarian! Lorraine Brothers will be retiring at the end of the year and will be sadly missed so we are recruiting to a permanent .8-1.0 FTE (up to full-time) position. Please email admin[at]sag.org.au for information -CV/EoI due by Monday 29 Nov

Merry Christmas everyone!

Happy new year from the National Archives! Anyone else doing a bit of this in the new year? 🏄 Surfers on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Photo by Photovision c. 1968 – 1978. NAA: B941, SURFING AND BEACHES/SURFING/1

I tried playing Wordle and all I got was lousy stress rage.

Spectators watching the beach and surf in 1967. Photograph by J Crowther. NAA: A1500, K16828

“The highest grossing movie of the year you were born is how your 2022 will go…” The Empire Strikes Back 😀 Oooh it's my time baby

Today, Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee. That’s 70 years on the throne! To mark the occasion, the Archives will be bathed in royal purple this evening. NAA: A1773, RV449

The SS Canberra docked at Circular Quay, Sydney in 1967. It was originally an ocean liner operating between the United Kingdom and Australasia, and later was used for cruises. NAA: A12111, 1/1967/32/2

You can hold one more, can’t you? International student Indra Durlabhji receives an armful of koalas from Ian Reid at the Lone Pine Sanctuary in Brisbane, 1964. Photograph by R W Nicol. NAA: A1501, A5758/3

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Famous outlaw New Kelly who was hung for murder is now being "torn down" by a "new account" that he was a... murderer. Whattttt Herald Sun ???

Was this your beach? A queue forms at a kiosk on an unidentified Melbourne beach in 1969. What was your go to order? NAA: A1200, L79755