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| Speakers Corner, 13 July 2008 | Duration | Size | Download |
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| Professor Mick Dodson: The continuing relevance of the Constitution for Indigenous peoples | 42:12 minutes | 19.79mb |  |
| Constitution Day address, 9 July 2008 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Senator John Faulkner: Constitution Day address | 19:27 minutes | 9.25mb | |
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| The Constitution Founders, 12 June 2008 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Chief Justice Paul de Jersey: A founding father – Sir Samuel Griffith and the Australian Constitution | 25:36 minutes | 12mb | |
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| The Constitution Founders, 12 June 2008 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Justice Patrick A Keane: In celebration of the Constitution | 30:45 minutes | 14.42mb | |
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| Speakers Corner, 1 June 2008 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Christopher Koch – The appeal of the unknown | 39:54 minutes | 18.7mb | |
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| RCIS records release, 27 May 2008 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Jim Stokes – Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security | 15:20 minutes | 7.19mb | |
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| RCIS records release, 27 May 2008 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| George Brownbill – The RCIS: An insider's perspective | 38:30 minutes | 18.06mb | |
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| Shake Your Family Tree day, 27 February 2008 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Kate Grenville – The Secret River | 24:22 minutes | 11.43mb | |
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| Shake Your Family Tree day, 27 February 2008 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Jeremy Palmer – Climbing your family tree | 35:15 minutes | 16.53mb | |
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| 1977 Cabinet records release, 4 December 2007 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Jim Stokes – 1977 Cabinet records: The historical context and issues of interest | 20:32 minutes | 9.63mb | |
Transcript (pdf 138kb) |
| 1977 Cabinet records release, 4 December 2007 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Peter Manning – 1977: A journalist's perspective | 24:56 minutes | 11.7mb | |
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| RG Neale Lecture, 2 August 2007 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| John Fitzgerald – Australia–China relations 1976 | 53:15 minutes | 24.97mb | |
Transcript (pdf 475kb) |
| Australia–China relations – part 1 | 17:00 minutes | 8.05mb | |
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| Australia–China relations – part 2 | 17:00 minutes | 7.81mb | |
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| Australia–China relations – part 3 | 19:26 minutes | 9.11mb | |
| Speakers Corner, 27 July 2007 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Peter Hore – Cracking the code | 38 minutes | 17.96mb | |
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| Constitution Day address, 9 July 2007 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Professor John Williams – 'A day in the life': Sergeant Pepper and the Australian Constitution | 45:13 minutes | 12.39mb | |
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| A Gift to the Nation launch, 11 April 2007 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Launch of A Gift to the National – full proceedings | 18:13 minutes | 8.54mb | |
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| Ross Gibbs, National Archives Director-General – Introduction | 1.40 minutes | 0.79mb | |
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| Roland Perry – World War I | 5.04 minutes | 2.38mb | |
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| Prime Minister John Howard – Launch of A Gift to the Nation: Announcing that the World War I service records are all online | 11.20 minutes | 5.37mb | |
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| 1976 Cabinet records release, 5 December 2006 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Jim Stokes – 1976 Cabinet release: Events and issues in 1976 – complete lecture | 20:00 minutes | 9.48mb | |
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| 1976 Cabinet release: Events and issues in 1976 – part 1 | 14:00 minutes | 5.37mb | |
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| 1976 Cabinet release: Events and issues in 1976 – part 2 | 12:00 minutes | 4.12mb | |
| 1976 Cabinet records release, 5 December 2006 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| David Kemp – 1976 Cabinet release: Advisers and decisions – complete lecture | 26:00 minutes | 6.03mb | |
Transcript (pdf 48kb) |
| 1976 Cabinet release: Advisers and decisions – part 1 | 14:00 minutes | 3.27mb | |
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| 1976 Cabinet release: Advisers and decisions – part 2 | 12:00 minutes | 2.76mb | |
| RG Neale Lecture, 1 May 2006 | Duration | Size | Download | Text |
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| Peter Edwards – The fall of Saigon, 1975 – complete lecture | 54:00 minutes | 20.7mb | |
Transcript (pdf 346kb) |
| Ross Gibbs (National Archives of Australia) and Michael L'Estrange (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) – Introduction | 16:00 minutes | 7.57mb | |
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| Peter Edwards – The fall of Saigon, 1975 – part 1 | 14:00 minutes | 6.59mb | |
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| Peter Edwards – The fall of Saigon, 1975 – part 2 | 12:00 minutes | 5.77mb | |
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| Peter Edwards – The fall of Saigon, 1975 – part 3 | 12:00 minutes | 5.59mb | |