The National Archives of Australia is pleased to announce that the national tour of its latest exhibition will begin in Hobart to mark the start of the city’s annual summer festival.

The story of two public servants – who were sometimes very ‘un-government’ in their modus operandi but who made unique and lasting contributions to our young nation and her capital, Canberra – is being told in a new website from the National Archives of Australia.

The Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, has announced a partnership between the Archives and University of Queensland lecturer Dr Heather Douglas to investigate the policy, process and problems involved in naming and registering Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory between 1953 and 1957.

These days our engagement with photography is guided by an uneasy suspicion. What is real and what has been simulated or digitally enhanced can be difficult to identify. And the very idea of an ‘unmediated’ photograph has come into question.

The Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, has endorsed the findings of a report into Australian Government recordkeeping and the management of electronic records.

The Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, has announced that the winner of the 2006 Margaret George Award is University of Western Sydney lecturer and leading scholar on the history of the voluntary sector, Dr Melanie Oppenheimer.

The Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, has announced that the winner of 2006–07 Frederick Watson Fellowship is Australian National University researcher Pip Deveson.

To coincide with the 40 th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, the National Archives of Australia wishes to advise that it holds a wide selection of records that deal with Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

A resource to assist Indigenous people to link up with family was launched by the Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, at the Archives’ Darwin office, Kelsey Crescent, Millner on Friday 11 August.

Skilfully designed and carefully aimed at public observers, a poster can be a powerful weapon … particularly in wartime,

The time capsule is an opportunity for you to be remembered forever. That is, your personal information will, in 99 years time, become a valuable resource for future generations, and will provide researchers, genealogists and historians with a complete picture of the year that was 2006.

Sounding more like a warrior princess than an innovative software application, the National Archives of Australia today released what it hopes will be the answer to one of the key challenges in the digital age — obsolescence.

Every Australian can make history this year by being part of the 2006 Census Time Capsule. The project was launched this morning by the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Rod Kemp and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Chris Pearce, who led a tour of the Sydney repository of the National Archives of Australia, enabling attending media to film rare footage of the secure vault area.

Two respected figures in Australian art curatorship have won the 2006 National Archives of Australia Ian Maclean Award.

The army enlistment form of Private Lance Australia Day Gardner, born in Gunnedah in 1915 and who enlisted in August 1940, has become the nine millionth page to be digitised and loaded onto the National Archives of Australia website.

For the third year running the National Archives of Australia will host its annual Grandkids Day – five hours of holiday fun for the littlies.