Politics in New South Wales

Browse records about housing, health, welfare and communities. Find minutes from the Executive Committee of the Council, correspondence and publications from affiliated organisations, records from the New South Wales Council on the Ageing, and records concerning seminars, talks, public meetings, donations, appeals, projects, committees and more.
The Council of Social Services was set up in 1936 to co-ordinate the work of social service agencies in New South Wales. Some records in the collection are restricted.

Learn about the Labor Council of New South Wales through records dating back to when the Trades and Labour Council of New South Wales was established in 1871. The Trades and Labour Council of New South Wales disbanded in July 1894 and later re-formed as the Sydney District Council of the Australasian Labour Federation. The Council severed its association with the Federation on 1 February 1900. The Sydney Labour Council was established, the rules amended and the name changed in November 1908 to Labor Council of New South Wales.
The Eight Hour System and General Short Hour League, formed in Sydney during August 1869, merged into the Trades and Labour Council of New South Wales in 1871.

Find facts, figures, government structures, news, events and promotional resources for New South Wales.

Explore business and labour records from Australian companies, trade unions, industry bodies and professional organisations, dating from the 1820s to the early 21st century. Find records from peak councils and federally registered trade unions and their predecessors. The archives includes files, photographs, minutes of meetings, some staff and membership records, maps and plans, and publications such as trade journals and union newsletters.

Learn about trade unions in New South Wales. Unions NSW is the peak body for trade unions in NSW.
Formerly the Labor Council of NSW.

Search the Library's catalogue to find significant collections of papers by noted journalists and political cartoonists.
Get started with this search of political cartoons and caricatures or explore the featured items below.

Visit this site for an alternative and sometimes satirical look at politics.

Delve into this extensive collection of records from the national and state branches of the party, personal records of prominent members, and archives and photographs from the newspaper, The Tribune. Access permission required.

Learn about the Utopian colonies of New Australia and Cosme. The colonies were founded in 1893 by William Lane in Paraguay. Find publications, documents, correspondence and photographs relating to the establishment and operation of the colony.
Search for manuscripts, oral history and pictures using the phrase 'New Australia or cosme' to find other papers on the colonies. There are other papers under the names of members of the colonies including Dame Mary Gilmore, William and Annie Lane and the Watson family.

Find out about the New Guard and the 'De Groot incident' at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge through Major de Groot's papers. De Groot was a member of the nationalist group in the mid 20th Century and achieved notoriety at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Discover written, pictorial and sound material documenting alternative lifestyles and political movements in Australia. Organisations represented include Friends of the Earth, the Nimbin Environment Centre and Down to Earth ConFest.
The Rainbow Archives are spread over several collections.

GetUp! organises action on community, social, environmental and economic issues through peaceful protest.