Trove
The National Library of Australia's newspaper and gazette archive. Free and full-text. Most titles stop at 1954 for copyright, which is the usual rule of thumb — BUT TWO EXCEPTIONS REACH MUCH LATER AND ARE EASY TO MISS: THE CANBERRA TIMES IS DIGITISED 1926-1995, and the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA GAZETTE 1901-1973, whose naturalisation and citizenship lists carry name, street address and date. Those two make Trove usable for post-war arrivals that the 1954 rule would rule out. NOTE THAT THE SEARCH NORMALISES SPELLING — two different spellings of one surname can return an identical result set — SO TROVE CANNOT BE USED AS A SPELLING TEST. The v3 API needs an X-API-KEY header and does not serve article text at ordinary key level; the public article page carries the OCR.
Last checked 2026-09-29. Tell us if this has changed.
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1788–1859 New South Wales — THE TRAP. Queensland did not exist before 6 JUNE 1859. A birth at Brisbane in 1850 is a NEW SOUTH WALES record, indexed by New South Wales, and searching Queensland's index for it returns nothing at all.
- 1859–1901 Colony of Queensland
- 1901–2026 Australia — State of Queensland
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