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Faces of Australia

Use this online feature to browse the photographs at your leisure, tell us if you can identify a person, place or time, or share a memory.


The motion that might have saved the Whitlam government

On one of the most dramatic days in Australia's political history, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. In the frantic hours after the Dismissal, Whitlam sought to find a way to restore his government to power.


Lighthouse drawings in the National Archives

Drawings and plans of lighthouses all around Australia, from the nineteenth century to the 1960s.


Wartime internment camps in Australia

An introduction to internment camps in Australia during World War I and World War II, and information on records about them in the National Archives.


Federation album

A selection of images and records from the time of Australia's Federation in 1901.


 
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