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News Archive

2023

18 December 2023 Biography Footnotes
Biography Footnotes, no 24
11 September 2023 Quest for Indigenous Recognition Project
Quest for Indigenous Recognition Project

2022

22 December 2022 Biography Footnotes
Biography Footnotes, no 23

2021

28 August 2021 Biographical Dictionary of the House of Representatives
Biographical Dictionary of the House of Representatives project: Lives of the Men and Women of the House
29 March 2021 ADB volume 19
ADB volume 19 published

2020

17 December 2020 Biography Footnotes
Biography Footnotes, no. 21

2019

23 December 2019 Biography Footnotes
Biography Footnotes no. 20
17 April 2019 Biography Footnotes
Biography Footnotes no.19

2018

15 March 2018 Biography Footnotes
Biography Footnotes no.18

2017

14 March 2017 Biography Footnotes
Biography Footnotes

2016

24 August 2016 Biography Footnotes
Biography Footnotes
6 June 2016 True Biographies of Nations?
Join us at our international conference.

2015

16 December 2015 Biography Footnotes
Biography Footnotes
11 June 2015 Biography Footnotes
Biography Footnotes

2014

2 October 2014 Leichhardt map
Check out the ADB's new digital map of Leichhardt's expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington in 1844-45
1 August 2014 Biography Footnotes
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2013

16 December 2013 Biography Footnotes
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2012

18 December 2012 Biography Footnotes
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28 August 2012 Digitised Biographies
Help us digitise Australian compendias of biography

2011

19 December 2011 Biography Footnotes
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17 October 2011 Biography Footnotes
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27 June 2011 Biography Footnotes
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14 February 2011 Obituaries Australia to be launched in April 2011
The National Centre of Biography's new website, Obituaries Australia, will be officially launched by the Vice-Chancellor of the ANU, Professor Ian Young, on 14 April 2011
1 February 2011 First obituary published in an Australian newspaper
James Bloodworth, Superintendent of Builders, was the first person to have an obituary published in an Australian newspaper.