Abstract
Among the 36 senators in the first Commonwealth Parliament were Josiah Symon from South Australia and John Keating from Tasmania, who shared a passion for law and also for literature and history, including the history of their own country. As founding members of the Parliamentary Library Committee, they were aware that the eighth and final volume of the 'Historical records of New South Wales' was published in 1901 and that most of the sources on the maritime exploration and colonisation of Australia were located on the other side of the world. Hence both of them proposed that original documents of great historical importance should be transferred to Australia and placed in libraries.
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