Macquarie University's Australian History Museum houses artefacts, documents and photographs relating to Indigenous Australia, war and society, women, migration, and domestic and working life. The Australian History Museum aims to enhance research teaching and community engagement experiences and outcomes for students and researchers at Macquarie University and beyond. To this end the Australian History Museum is working to align the existing and future collection to the needs of the Centre for Media History and its affiliated researchers. The museum collection houses a varied selection of publications relevant to the development and interaction of media and history in Australia during the last 150 years.

Relevant publications held in the museum include: Argus (Melbourne), Australian Home Journal, Australian Woman's Mirror, Australian Women's Weekly, Bulletin, Country Life, The Dawn, Decent, The Home, The Idler, Illustrated War News, PIX, Punch, Stead's Review, The Sun (Sydney), Sydney Mail and Woman's Day.

The Macquarie University Library contains many items of use to scholars of media history. Relevant holdings include:

• Newspaper indexes including the Sydney Morning Herald (1929-1987), the New South Wales Parliamentary Library (1910-1975) and the Age (1982-1992).
  
  
• Annual reports of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board (1950-1976), the Australian Broadcasting Authority (1999-2003), the Australian Communications Authority (1997- ), the Australian Broadcasting Commission (1946-1983) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1984- ).
  
  
• Select reports and transcripts of, for instance, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, the Australian Broadcasting Authority, and the Australian Press Council.
  
  
• Various publications relating to the Australian film industry, including Australian Film Review (1983-1984), Australian Film Data (1988- ) and Encore (1984-1987), and annual reports of the Australian Film Commission (1975- ) and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (1986- ).
  
• Newspaper News (1928-1971).
  
  
• A range of newspapers and magazines in hard copy or on microfilm, ranging from the Dawn (1880-1905), the Labor Daily (1930-1933), the Daily Telegraph (1879-1942) and Nation (1959-1972) to the Bulletin, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Australian.
  
  
• A range of online national and international newspaper resources, including Factiva, Media Scan and Newspaper Source.
  
  
• A range of journals, including Journalism History, Media History, Film History, Penguin Film Review, Sight and Sound, and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
  
  
• A strong and ever-growing collection of feature and short films in DVD format, and offers multi-regional playback facilities.
  
  
• Theses, for example:
  • Ruth Gwenda Aipperspach, An Historical Analysis of the Macquarie Broadcasting Service Pty Ltd, Sydney Australia, 1938-1958, MSc thesis, 1981.
  • Judith Rose Bartholomeusz, Ordination by Media?: Analysis of New Texts Constructing the Debate Over Women's Ordination Into the Priesthood in the Anglican Church of Australia in Four Daily Newspapers, 1987-1992, MA (Hons) thesis, 1995.
  • Johannes Lothar Felix Buchner, Religious Broadcasting in Australia, PhD thesis, 1989.
  • Jill M. Bull, John Hickling, A Radio Man of His Time: A Bibliographical Study, MA (Hons) thesis, 1993.
  • B. G. Cole, The Australian Broadcasting Control Board and the Regulation of Commercial Radio in Australia Since 1948, PhD thesis, Northwestern University, 1966.
  • Diana R. Combe, The Radio Serial in Australia: An Historical Study of the Production of Serials in Australia, and the Influence of the Industry in the Development of Commercial Radio, PhD thesis, 1992.
  • Julia V. Garcia, Just Another Asiatic Horde?: Australian Media Perceptions of the Vietnam War and Allied Involvement, 1965-1972, MA (Hons) thesis, 1985.
  • Eric Halliday, An Overview of the History and Regulation of Children's Programs on Commercial Television in Australia, MA thesis, 1987.
  • Jennifer Kitchener, Business Reporting in the 1980s: An Exploration of What Went Wrong, MA thesis, 1999.
  • Anthony Emaneul Maniaty, The Changing Role of War Correspondents in Australian News and Current Affairs Coverage of Two Conflicts, Vietnam (1966-1975) and Iraq (2003), MA thesis, 2006.
  • Mike Minehan, Pay Television in Australia: A Case History of Media Policy, Power and Patronage, PhD thesis, 1998.
  • Shaouket Mouslimani, Anti-Westernism and Orientalism: An Analysis of Australia's Ethnic Arabic and Mainstream Press During the 1991 Gulf Crisis, MA thesis, 1993.
  • Matthew Pearce, The Constitution of Australian Broadcasting Policy: Introducing Pay TV, PhD thesis, 2000.
  • Bryon Quigley, Aboriginal Broadcasting: Development in Australia 1979 to 1986, 1987.
  • Jennifer Eileen Simmons, The Concept of Woman in the Australian Women's Weekly, 1935 to 1940, 1950 to 1955, 1965 to 1970, BA thesis, Monash University, 1972