CONTENTS

1  A necklace from Lake Nitchie

2  A marngrook possum ball

3  Kimberley points

4  Dirk Hartog’s plate

5  Captain Cook’s globe

6  The Charlotte medal

7  A wool sample

8  Matthew Flinders’ hat

9  A diorama of Governor William Bligh’s arrest

10  A mug depicting Governor Davey’s proclamation to the Aborigines of Tasmania 1816

11  A bowl with a view of Sydney

12  A bottle of beer

13  A convict uniform

14  Batman’s contract for Melbourne

15  A pepper-box revolver from Lambing Flat

16  A Staffordshire porcelain figurine of Protestant Irish nationalist convict William Smith O’Brien

17  The Eureka flag

18  An Australian Rules Sherrin

19  Robert O’Hara Burke’s water bottle

20  Mrs Butters’ press dress

21  A Coolgardie Safe

22  Ned Kelly’s armour

23  A Sunshine stripper harvester

24  A pair of shears

25  Dame Nellie Melba’s dress

26  A women’s suffrage movement banner

27  Jandamurra’s boomerang

28  A billy

29  Dally Messenger’s cap

30  A slouch hat with rising sun badge

31  A Federation flag

32  Henry Lawson’s pen

33  St Mary Mackillop (St Mary of the Cross) rosary

34  Marion Mahony Griffin’s plan for Canberra

35  Mawson’s Antarctic sledge

36  George Julius’ totalisator machine

37  Two-up kip and coins

38  A Gallipoli boat

39  Pin flags for General Sir John Monash

40  Winnie O’Sullivan’s locket

41  A Billy Hughes novelty paperweight

42  A Felix the Cat doll

43  A Country Women’s Association cup and saucer

44  A Vegemite jar

45  The Kinchela Boys Home gate

46  Penicillin moulds

47  Charles Kingsford Smith’s cigarette case

48  A Waterside Workers banner

49  The Play School rocket clock

50  The Heidelberg dress

51  A model of Nancy-Bird Walton’s Gipsy Moth aircraft

52  A Cherry Ripe chocolate bar

53  Don Bradman’s 1934 bat

54  A Melbourne Cup

55  A cane-toad statuette

56  A Japanese Himitsu-Bako puzzle box

57  A road sign to Tobruk

58  Weary Dunlop’s medical instruments

59  A Japanese flag from the Kokoda Track

60  Ben Chifley’s pipe

61  A ten-pound Pom’s suitcase

62  Holden Prototype No. 1

63  Lord Warden of Cinque Ports uniform as worn by Robert Menzies

64  A bottle of Grange Hermitage

65  A Cimbali espresso machine

66  Rock shovel bucket

67  Evdokia Petrov’s shoe

68  A Paula Stafford bikini

69  Snowy Mountains Scheme coasters

70  Olympic stamp from the 1956 Melbourne Games

71  Old Purple

72  Dame Edna costume

73  Jørn Utzon’s model for the Sydney Opera House

74  A detective’s hat

75  Oz magazine

76  Harry Vanda’s guitar

77  Long Tan dolls

78  Faith Bandler’s gloves

79  Patrick White’s typewriter

80  Evonne Goolagong’s tennis racquet

81  ALP badge 1972

82  Miranda’s dress

83  Bob Brown’s raft

84  Dàn tre musical instrument

85  Tobacco tin containing white ochre paint

86  Eddie Mabo’s map

87  A Jenny Kee knitted jumper

88  Azaria Chamberlain’s dress

89  Australia II

90  A prawn on a barbecue

91  ‘Cotton Blossom’ Mardi Gras costume

92  A Port Arthur memorial

93  Wi-fi technology

94  An East Timorese native sword

95  Cathy Freeman’s running suit

96  Lifebuoy from the MV Tampa

97  Bali bombings cross

98  A ‘Kevin 07’  T-shirt

99  A burned car

100  Julia Gillard’s spectacles

Photography Credit

Acknowledgements