Material approved by Council for inclusion in the NHC 1 July 2004 - 30 June 2005
Frank Arthur
Sterling silver helmet trophy and golden gauntlet trophy from the British speedway season of 1928.
Purchase
Bali Bombings 2002 Memorial Collection - John and Sara Darling
Six T-shirts, two stickers and a bag.
Donation
Bali Bombings 2002 Memorial Collection - Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
Paper banner.
Donation
Bali Bombings 2002 Memorial Collection - Parliament of Victoria
Various objects including cards, letters and drawings.
Donation
Liz Bollingmoore
Hessian peg bag, pegs and a biscuit tin.
Donation
Wendy Brigg
Seven hand-held Australian flags used during the visit of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh to Canberra in February 1954.
Donation
Chanthanao Family
A Lanard Thum, a traditional Lao musical instrument, and accompanying Mai Tui (sticks) and Sings (small cymbals).
Donation
Peter Clements
Portable writing desk belonging to Lieutenant Hanbury Clements who served in the Royal Navy from 1806 to 1829.
Donation
Alex Colly
Bicycle belonging to pioneer bushwalker and mountain climber Dorothy (Dot) Butler.
Donation
Colonial Police Report
Six-page folio report of escaped convicts, made by the Chief Police Magistrate of Van Diemen's Land in 1847.
Purchase
Shelley Cooper
Three plaques presented to the donor by the Turkish government for her participation in Australia Remembers 1995 commemorative celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
Donation
Hilda Creager Collection No. 2
Singer sewing machine, tablecloth, wall hanging, footstool, three books and miscellaneous baking tins.
Donation
Laurie Dillon
Green vinyl scout vest made for the Pan-Pacific Jamboree held in Sydney in 1952-1953.
Donation
Joanne Duke
Book-William Harvey's The Complete Manual of Freemasonry, published in 1919.
Donation
Edward Dumaresq
Letters appointing Dumaresq as Commissioner of the Court of Requests in New Norfolk, Van Diemen's Land, in 1830.
Purchase
Max Dupain
Photographic print of Sunbaker.
Purchase
Ernabella Arts Inc. Collection No. 5
Five pieces of ceramic ware, Spinifex and raffia sculpture of an emu and two gum fruit (Corymbia opaca sp.) necklaces or body ornaments.
Purchase
Ernabella Arts Inc. Collection No. 6
Two girls' dance outfits.
Donation
Frederick Karl Esling
Boxed silver trowel; Omega pocket watch; photographic portrait of Esling taken in 1950, his unpublished autobiography written in 1947 and supporting documentary material.
Purchase
Thea Exley
Outdoor equipment used by Exley for hiking from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Donation
Matthew Flinders
Two volumes of Flinders' A Voyage to Terra Australia (London, 1814), and an atlas of charts of the Australian coastline in 1810-1811.
Purchase
Golden Fleece Memorabilia
Gilbarco petrol pump from the 1950s.
Purchase
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Tennis dress and warm-up jacket from Wimbledon tournaments.
Purchase
Mary Jones
Convict conditional pardon.
Purchase
Daphne Harding
Unused clothing ration card.
Donation
Peter Harris (picture)
Carved emu egg.
Purchase
Joanne Harvy
Handmade sand board and carry bag, sand board wax (three pack), an Ocean Culture logo T-shirt and four Ocean Culture stickers.
Purchase
Captain Theodore Haultain
16 armbands, a pair of ceremonial armbands, a pair of clapping sticks, a string bag used by Tiwi crewmen on the patrol boat Larrakia in the Second World War.
Donation
Andrew Hope
Set of preaching bands worn by the Reverend Samuel Marsden, Senior Church of England Chaplain in New South Wales from 1800 to 1838.
Donation
Great Levante
Offset lithograph poster of three separate sheets.
Purchase
Jim McMahon
Horseracing bookmaker's betting board, greyhound racing bookmaker's betting board, bookmaker's betting tickets, ticket holders, personalised bookmaker's bag marked 'Jim McMahon Canberra', betting board stands and four carrying cases.
Donation
Dulcie May Magnus
Perkins Brailler, 16 assorted wood and metal awls, metal folding ruler with punch holes, and various printed material.
Purchase
Robin Maloney
102 items of 1950-1960s scouting memorabilia.
Donation
Bob Marshall (Part One)
Miner's pistol, Enfield Cavalry percussion carbine, Calisher & Terry percussion carbine and three sets of handcuffs.
Purchase
Maruku Arts Collection No. 3
Three large, wooden containers with pokerwork designs depicting the Seven Sisters story; three small wooden containers or scrapers decorated with pokerwork designs; and two traditional Indigenous spindles.
Purchase
Alan Moir No. 3
84 original editorial cartoons.
Donation - Cultural Gifts Program
Joe Ngallametta
Three contemporary examples of Taap Yongk (Law Poles) from Arukun, two paintings, fire-stick.
Purchase
Sir Hubert Opperman Collection No. 2
181 objects relating to his cycling, political and RAAF careers including a silver tray presented to him while Immigration Minister in 1966, a Knights Bachelor Medal awarded by Queen Elizabeth II in 1968 and a Basque Beret worn when he was awarded the Gold Medal of Paris in 1991 by Jacques Chirac.
Purchase
Robert Pallin
'Golden tan' japara tent.
Donation
Alva William Bernard Paul
Glass jar of blackberry jam made by Amelia Paul (nee Cornell) in 1916.
Donation