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View highlights from contributors to Picture Australia's Flickr groups during April

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The Australian War Memorial in 2003 appointed David Dare Parker as its official photographer and Lewis Miller as its official artist, to document the role of Australian Defence Force personnel deployed to the Second Gulf War. The artists have produced a vast array of paintings, sketches and photographs about the every day lives of Royal Australian Navy, Royal Australian Air Force, and Australian Army personnel in the war zone.

The Australian War Memorial also holds a large range of contemporary images relating to the Afghanistan conflict. These images produced by artists Peter Churcher, George Gittoes, and Sean Hobbs, document the involvement of the Australian Air Force and Australian Army. The Australian War Memorial has a long history of official war artists documenting conflicts, going back to the First World War.

On ANZAC Day, we commemorate all New Zealanders and Australians who have served in a military campaign.

View Picture Australia’s ANZACs at Gallipoli trail.

View highlights from contributors to Picture Australia's Flickr groups during March.

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February Flickr report 2008

View highlights from contributors to Picture Australia's Flickr groups during February.

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Do you want to return to particular picture searches so you can reliably cite them in Wikipedia, articles or essays? See our Search Help page for details on how to create simple, linkable searches on Picture Australia that always return results.

Celebrate Australia's multicultural heritage for International Migrants Day.

Strike it lucky with Picture Australia’s new Gold Rush trail and see how the industry has developed in Australia, since the discovery of gold in 1851.

Visit the Culture and Recreation portal for more information on Australia’s gold rush.

Browse through our Environment trails and see why it's important to keep Australia clean and beautiful!

Visit the Planet Ark website for further National Recycling Week information.

This Remembrance Day, take a moment to reflect upon the Australian men and women involved in our military history.

Following our successful People, places and events group, Picture Australia has opened a new group called Picture Australia: Ourtown and we invite all Flickr members to contribute images.

Ourtown is designed to capture Australia’s rural and urban spaces, illustrating everyday activities such as your work or home.

You could find an historical image of your town in Picture Australia and then recreate the image and upload it to the Ourtown group, showing everyone how your community has developed over the ages.

As with the photographs in the People, places and events group, the photographs from ‘Ourtown’ will be made available through Picture Australia. Ourtown images will be available in Picture Australia after 15 April 2007.

See our Flickr instructions for more information.

Enjoy Picture Australia's architecture trails!

For more information visit the Royal Australian Institute of Architects' website and view the events for each state and territory chapter.

Meet the women who have blazed a trail through Australian Society.

Celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month.

Over the last year a cross-disciplinary design team in the Library worked to distill ideas coming from our participating agencies, Picture Australia researchers and from a Picture Australia Website Performance Expert Review by Nielsen //Net Ratings commissioned in 2006. Recommendations to improve the service included clearer navigation, relevance ranking of search results and a 'favourites' function.

The redesign has factored in rigorous research on what our researchers do and don’t do on the site. All this research and consultation has been integrated into the new design. Please Contact us to tell us what you think of the new site.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened on 19 March 1932.

Seventy five years on the Bridge remains one of Australia’s favourite icons. See where it all began and help celebrate its birthday with Picture Australia’s Sydney Harbour Bridge trail.