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.

The beginning of a new chapter for the National Archives in Western Australia.

New Preservation Digitisation Standards set out the technical requirements for digitising physical records in line with international best practice.

General Records Authority 38 ensures the records of Ministers and their staff are appropriately created, maintained and accessible.

An exhibition on post-war Australia through the eyes of those that lived through it.

Imagine losing forever all video footage of your children growing up. As a nation, Australia faces an equally unthinkable prospect. A substantial component of our 20th-century audiovisual cultural heritage – documenting our growth as a nation – will disappear by 2025 due to deterioration of the magnetic tape on which it is stored.

The National Archives of Australia has responded to recommendations in the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse by issuing a new Records Authority that requires Australian Government agencies to retain records relating to child sexual abuse incidents and allegations for at least 45 years.

Five moving video portraits of Dutch immigrants, illuminated with archival records of their migration journey, are now available on the National Archives' Destination: Australia website.

Australia's state-of-the-art facility for the preservation of Commonwealth records has been named in honour of the former Attorney-General who helped establish the National Archives of Australia.

A bold and innovative exhibition curated by the National Archives of Australia, Facing Two Fronts: the fight for respect, has opened at the Sir John Monash Centre near Villers-Bretonneux in France.

The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, from the South Australian Museum, attracts high-calibre entries from around the world and encourages discussion about scientific and environmental issues facing the planet. On display in 2018 will be 17 winning and highly commended works of art selected from this year's Prize.

Today the National Archives of Australia announced the inauguration of an annual Dr Mickey Dewar Oration, in memory of the late Dr Dewar's contribution to the Northern Territory as a respected historian and former long-term member of the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council.

The National Archives of Australia presented a copy of the Larrakia petition to the Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation on Wednesday 13 June. Advisory Council members and National Archives State Director Phyllis Williams gifted the copy at the Corporation offices in Darwin.

SPY: Espionage in Australia reveals the personal experiences of secret agents and the curious history of espionage and counter-espionage in Australia, from Federation through to the present day.

The National Archives of Australia has awarded two research scholarships in conjunction with the Australian Historical Association (2018).

'Alex', the world's first virtual assistant for intellectual property enquiries, was just one of the impressive winning entries in the National Archives of Australia's 2018 Digital Excellence Awards.

Stories of Australia's returned World War I (WWI) service personnel have been brought to life in new videos produced by the National Archives of Australia.
Repatriation records held by the National Archives of Australia reveal the impact of war on the mental and physical health of returned service personnel and the experiences of their families.

The Federal Court has heard arguments regarding the public release of the so-called 'Palace letters', and whether they should be regarded as Commonwealth records or the private papers of Sir John Kerr.