A raft of newly preserved records is helping connect community with history ahead of the 50th anniversary of Papua New Guinea's independence this month.

National Archives of Australia has announced His Excellency Mr Simeon Beckett SC as its new Member Program Patron.

Canberra locals and visitors can hop on board a new exhibition at National Archives of Australia that explores the colourful history behind the Trans-Australian Railway.

Sea to suburbia, a new photographic exhibition at National Archives' Western Australia
Office, offers an insight into the evolving identity of Western Australia.

Australians interested in exploring their Dutch family heritage will now have easier access to key historic records thanks to an international partnership delivered by National Archives of Australia.

Experience the wonder of 2 decades of award-winning nature photography as a new exhibition opens at National Archives of Australia.

Focus: Australian government photographers opens at the Victorian Archives Centre on Friday 8 November 2024.

Former Prime Minister The Hon Julia Gillard AC, National Archives of Australia and the University of Adelaide have agreed to establish the Julia Gillard Prime Ministerial Library on the University’s North Terrace campus, bringing the archive of documents from Ms Gillard’s career and Prime Ministership closer to the public.

National Archives of Australia’s new Northern Territory Office is now open at 24 Mitchell St Darwin City, located on the land of the Larrakia people.

Explore the colourful history behind the Trans-Australian Railway in National Archives of Australia's latest exhibition at the State Library of South Australia.

National Archives of Australia is seeking public help to locate the family of Margaret Williamson, whose Second World War service record will be the last to be digitised as part of a 5-year-long project.

National Archives of Australia continues to implement all recommendations of the Review of 2003 Cabinet records transfer to the National Archives of Australia.

Contemplate the intersection of art and science at the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, now showing at National Archives of Australia.

Between 31 December 2023 and 5 January 2024, 82 additional Cabinet records from 2003 were transferred from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to National Archives of Australia.

National Archives of Australia welcomes the Review of 2003 Cabinet records transfer to the National Archives of Australia and accepts the recommendations.

Australia, home of the 'fair go', but who are the ordinary and extraordinary people who have made our nation what it is today? And how can we learn from their actions? National Archives of Australia asks these questions in its touring exhibition Disrupt, persist, invent: Australians in an ever-changing world.

Between 1939 and 1996, dozens of photographers were employed by government agencies to capture Australian culture, people, landscapes and animals. This new fascinating exhibition offers a close-up look at the lives and work of those tasked with documenting the visual heritage of Australia.

National Archives of Australia, in partnership with the Australian Historical Association (AHA), is proud to announce the successful applicants for the 2023 NAA/AHA Postgraduate Scholarships.

National Archives of Australia is proud to announce that over 1 million Second World War service records have now been digitised as part of a large-scale digitisation effort.

'Chilled: Antarctic life, inside and out', an exhibition developed by National Archives of Australia, has landed in Perth for the first time.

An exhibition featuring a unique collection of artworks, gifted to Gough and Margaret Whitlam in 1979, will be shared with the public at National Archives of Australia in Canberra.

National Archives of Australia is providing the opportunity to gain deeper insight into the Australian Constitution during its Constitution Open Day on Sunday 9 July.

If you are yet to see National Archives of Australia’s powerful exhibition 'Disrupt, persist, invent: Australians in an ever-changing world', you better mark it in your calendar as the exhibition is drawing to a close.

National Archives of Australia and Ancestry.com have collaborated to digitise 95,000 First World War records.

National Archives of Australia will receive $36.5 million in the next Federal Budget as part of the Government’s $535.5 million budget boost for 9 National Collecting Institutions.

National Archives of Australia has received precious items belonging to Captain Matthew Flinders into the national archival collection.

National Archives of Australia’s Discovering Anzacs website has been decommissioned after almost 10 years of service.

National Archives of Australia and the Australian Antarctic Division have completed a transfer of records documenting early 20th century Antarctic expeditions.

Opening this week in Canberra, Disrupt, persist, invent profiles the many different and sometimes unexpected ways people have pushed for change in Australia.

The remains of abandoned towns in Western Australia tell many tales. Stories of gold fever, pearls, migration, prosperity and hardship.

Explore a compelling display of science and art seen through the eyes of internationally celebrated artists at the 2022 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.

The National Archives presents an annual forum on Constitution Day, 9 July, providing a platform for discussion about constitutional issues.

'Chilled: Antarctic life, inside and out' invites visitors into the daily lives of the extraordinary people stationed at one of the most remote places on earth.

National Archives continues to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in finding information about themselves, their Country and their history.

We are proud to announce the successful applicants for the 2022 Postgraduate Scholarships.

Pat Turner AM, CEO of NACCHO, will give the keynote address at National Archives of Australia’s biennial Dr Mickey Dewar oration.

Reception this way: motels – a sentimental journey with Tim Ross opens at National Archives of Australia this Friday, 27 May 2022.

National Archives of Australia will be receiving a gift of records relating to the first inshore circumnavigation of Australia by Captain Matthew Flinders.

National Archives of Australia’s new exhibition, 'Marion: the other Griffin', reveals and celebrates the life and achievements of Marion Mahony Griffin.

National Archives’ have signed a contract with commercial digitisation provider Micro Image to operate from the Archives’ new industrial scale digitisation hub.

David Fricker announced this morning that his term as Director-General of the National Archives of Australia will conclude at the end of December this year.

Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General Senator the Hon Amanda Stoker today announced that the Australian Government has agreed or agreed in principle to all 20 recommendations made by the Functional and Efficiency Review of the National Archives of Australia.

National Archives announces new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander protocols to guide its way forward on Indigenous community engagement and records management.

National Archives, along with the Australian Historical Association, is proud to announce the successful applicants for their 2021 Postgraduate Scholarships.

Welcome to the dark side of the Roaring Twenties. Descend into the seedy underworld where the only rules were never squeal to the police and always shoot first.

60th Anniversary of the National Archives of Australia

Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General Senator the Hon Amanda Stoker today released the Functional and Efficiency Review of the National Archives of Australia, undertaken by Mr David Tune AO, PSM.

National Archives has officially released its next whole-of-government information management policy, 'Building trust in the public record'.

The National Archives of Australia today announced Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley as the inaugural patron of its new Members Program.

The National Archives of Australia has signed contracts totalling $4.4 million for the bulk digitisation of more than 650,000 Second World War service records.

Priceless audio and video recordings documenting Australian history will be preserved through a $3 million investment by the National Archives.

A new National Archives of Australia exhibition examines the nation’s response to space research and exploration from the 1950s to the 1970s.    

The National Archives of Australia welcomes the report on ‘Government Accountability in the Digital Age’, prepared by Dr Vivienne Thom AM.

The National Archives of Australia has signed a 3-year contract for a specialist digital preservation system with sector leader Preservica.

The Parliamentary Friends of Museums Libraries and Galleries believe in the power and importance of our cultural organisations even more so at this time of national crisis.

The National Archives of Australia (NAA), in partnership with the Australian Historical Association (AHA), is proud to announce the successful applicants for the 2020 NAA/AHA Postgraduate Scholarships.

The National Archives of Australia will release the Kerr Palace Letters on Tuesday 14 July.

The High Court’s decision of 29 May has given the National Archives of Australia the opportunity to examine and publicly release the historic Palace Letters. To ensure the records are released in accordance with the Archives Act 1983 they are required to go through a declassification process which may take up to 90 business days.

The High Court today handed down its decision on Hocking v DG National Archives of Australia.

A minor electrical fire has forced the temporary closure of the National Archives Preservation Facility at Mitchell in Canberra.

This is an extraordinary time, during which the role of the National Archives of Australia as a source of trusted information for all is coming to the fore.

The personal experiences of secret agents and the curious history of espionage in Australia are publicly revealed in a new National Archives exhibition.

Urgent action is required to save our digital heritage – the memories, events and documents we have kept on digital media over the past 40 years.

From Monday 1 July 2019, prices for ordering copies of records held in the national archival collection will increase by 4.2 per cent in line with CPI.

The National Archives of Australia has today announced a further two venues in the national tour of its Without Consent: Australia's past adoption practices exhibition – in Geelong and Adelaide.