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The ALIA/Health Libraries Australia (HLA) health specialist competencies apply to all Australian health librarians and health library technicians, who are library and information professionals who have obtained qualifications from an ALIA-accredited, post-secondary educational institution and are eligible for professional librarian membership or professional library technician membership of ALIA.

This document acknowledges participants in the national research project investigating workplace violence and aggression in Australian public and academic libraries and provides early research findings.

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In this submission, ALIA supports the goals of the review: a practical renewal of the classification framework rather than a wholesale redesign, with the aim of achieving a simpler and more consistent approach across all media.

ALIA also strongly supports the conclusions drawn from the stakeholder consultation – that classification decisions should be grounded in evidence of harm rather than morality; that clearer signposts should be provided for the most harmful content; and that guidelines should be made more accessible with streamlined processes.

In this submission to the National Cultural Policy consultation, ALIA supports the retention of the five pillars as the foundation for the renewed National Cultural Policy: First Nations First; A Place for Every Story; Centrality of the Artist; Strong Cultural Infrastructure; and Engaging the Audience.

This submission to the National Cultural Policy consultation calls on the government to strengthen its recognition of and support for Australia’s public libraries as places which provide essential social and cultural infrastructure.

The ILRS Code has been endorsed by the Australia Library Peak bodies including Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA), the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the National Library of Australia.

This report, produced jointly by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and PressReader, explores how public libraries across the country are responding to the need for media literacy.

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) and Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia (RIMPA) collaborated on the development of the Foundation Knowledge, Skills and Attributes for information professionals working in archives, libraries and records management.

Adopted 2014. Amended 2015, Reviewed 2020, Revised 2025.

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