Fact sheets

Fact sheets introduce you to subjects in the collection and include a selection of records. They are a useful starting point for research.

Fact sheets by number
Number	Title
1.1	Using our collection
2	Addresses of Australian archival institutions
3	Research centre rules
4	What are archives?
5	Archival terms
6	The Commonwealth Record Series (CRS) system
7	Citing archival records
8	Copyright
9	Searching for records
10	Access to records under the Archives Act
11	Viewing records in the research centre
12	What to do if we refuse you access
13	RecordSearch: an overview
14	Keyword searching in RecordSearch Advanced search screens
15	Release of records containing personal information
16	Service guidelines for the National Reference Service
18	NameSearch
19	PhotoSearch
21	Parliamentary Papers
22	Commonwealth of Australia Gazettes
23	Customs House, Sydney
24	Coastal fortifications in New South Wales
25	Commonwealth Film Unit
26	The wine industry in South Australia
28	Australia First Movement
29	Commonwealth banking policy
30	Navy service records
31	Navy crew and ships records
32	RAAF service records
33	Security intelligence records held in Canberra
34	Cabinet records
35	Administration of the Australian Capital Territory
36	Military records held in Hobart
37	Maritime records held in Hobart
38	Passenger records held in Canberra
39	Civilian service in World War II
46	Why we refuse access
47	Australian Overseas Information Service photographs
48	Papua New Guinea patrol reports
49	D Notices
50	Post Office records
51	Copying charges
52	Exempt information in ASIO records
53	Personal information in ASIO records
54	Veterans' case files
55	Fremantle Harbour
56	Passenger records held in Perth
57	Melbourne Olympics, 1956
58	World War I internee, alien and POW records held in Canberra
59	World War II internee, alien and POW records held in Canberra
60	Design and development of the national capital
61	World War II war crimes
62	Indonesian independence
63	War service information
64	Passenger records held in Sydney
65	Customs shipping records held in Sydney
66	Migrant selection documents held in Canberra
67	Boer War records
68	Naturalisation records held in Canberra
69	ASIO files on writers and literary groups
70	Prime ministers of Australia
72	Prime Minister Joseph Cook
73	Prime Minister William Morris Hughes
74	Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce
75	Prime Minister James Henry Scullin
76	Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons
77	Prime Minister Earle Christmas Grafton Page
78	Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies
79	Prime Minister Arthur William Fadden
80	Prime Minister John Joseph Ambrose Curtin
81	Prime Minister Francis Michael Forde
82	Prime Minister Joseph Benedict Chifley
83	Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt
84	Prime Minister John McEwen
85	Prime Minister John Grey Gorton
86	Family history sources held in Canberra
87	Family history sources held in Adelaide
88	Australia and the United Nations
89	Births, deaths and marriages
90	Cyclones and the Northern Territory
91	Coastal fortifications in South Australia
92	Customs houses in South Australia
93	Customs House, Port Adelaide, South Australia
94	Excise control of distilled products in South Australia
95	Walter Burley Griffin and the design of Canberra
96	J T Lang and Lang Labor
98	Regulation of beer and brewing in South Australia
99	Sir Frederick Shedden and the Shedden collection
100	Records relating to Italian migration held in Sydney
101	World War II internee, alien and POW records held in Sydney
102	The Australian flag
103	The Cocos (Keeling) Islands
104	Commonwealth electoral rolls held in Perth
105	Copyright records
106	World War I internee, alien and POW records held in Adelaide
107	World War II internee, alien and POW records held in Adelaide
108	The Pastoral industry in the Northern Territory
109	Building the provisional Parliament House
110	When to use the Freedom of Information, Archives and Privacy Acts
111	The sinking of HMAS Sydney, November 1941
112	Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
113	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
114	Memorandum of Understanding with Northern Territory Aboriginal people
115	Introducing television to Australia, 1956
116	Guides to the collection
117	Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War
118	Computer resources in research centres
120	Bankruptcy records held in Sydney
121	General Sir John Monash
122	Lighthouse records held in Hobart
123	Records of British migrants held in Canberra
124	Child migration to Australia
125	Radar research in Australia during World War II
126	Radar production and use during World War II
127	War Cabinet records
128	Cabinet notebooks
129	British nuclear tests at Maralinga
130	The Royal Commission on Espionage, 1954–55
131	Posters
132	World War ll Army pay files held in Adelaide
133	Defence and service records held in Melbourne
134	Colonial defence personnel records held in Melbourne
135	Army administrative records held in Melbourne
136	Army service records
137	Navy administrative records held in Melbourne
138	Navy service records held in Melbourne
139	Royalty and Australian society
140	Cockatoo Island Dockyard
141	Stevedoring industry
142	Canberra air disaster, 1940
143	North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney
144	Harold Holt's disappearance, 1967
145	Albert Namatjira
146	Jessie Sinclair Litchfield
147	Child migrant records held in Sydney
148	Records of Papua New Guinea, 1883–1942
149	Sound collections held in Sydney
150	The 1967 referendum
151	Bishop Francis Xavier Gsell
152	Army and RAAF pay records held in Perth
153	ABC Talks Department scripts
154	External Affairs cables
155	Edward John Connellan and Connellan Airways
156	Records relating to Dutch migration held in Sydney
157	Christmas Island
158	Foundation of the State of Israel, 1946
159	Reverend John Flynn and the Australian Inland Mission
160	Universal military training in Australia, 1911–29
161	Conscription referendums, 1916 and 1917
162	National Service and war, 1939–45
163	National Service, 1951–59
164	National Service, 1965–72
165	Royal Military College, Duntroon
166	Government House, Canberra
167	Mount Stromlo Observatory
168	Gorman House, Canberra
170	Migrant hostels in New South Wales, 1946–78
171	World War I internee, alien and POW records held in Sydney
172	Passenger records held in Melbourne
173	Security intelligence records in Melbourne
174	East Block building, Canberra
175	Bringing Them Home name index
176	Cyclone Tracy, Darwin
177	World War I and World War II service records
178	Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme (CRTS) administrative records
179	Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme (CRTS) applicants and trainees
180	Wartime internee, alien and POW records held in Perth
181	Civil Constructional Corps records held in Perth
182	Civil Alien Corps records held in Perth
183	New Guard Movement, 1931–35
184	Passenger records held in Hobart
185	Migrant selection documents held in Perth
186	Alien registration records held in Perth
187	Citizenship in Australia
188	Empire Games, Sydney, 1938
189	General Post Office, Sydney
190	Passenger records held in Brisbane
191	Aerial photographs
192	Japanese midget submarine attacks on Sydney, 1942
193	Addresses of other national archives
194	Australian Antarctic exploration and research
195	The bombing of Darwin
196	Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
197	Photographs relating to Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
198	Cowra breakout, 1944
199	Army Inventions Directorate, 1942–46
200	Beginning your family history research
201	Tracing ancestors in the National Archives
202	Tracing ancestors beyond the National Archives
203	The House of Representatives Standing Committee of Privileges
204	The Browne-Fitzpatrick privilege case, 1955
205	Memorandum of Understanding with the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency
207	Records relating to Italian migration held in Perth
208	Research Agents – overseas institutions
209	Memorandum of Understanding with South Australian Indigenous people
210	Prime Minister Edmund Barton
211	Prime Minister Alfred Deakin
212	Prime Minister John Christian Watson
213	Prime Minister George Houstoun Reid
214	Prime Minister Andrew Fisher
215	Prime Minister William McMahon
216	Prime Minister Edward Gough Whitlam
217	The Jewish experience in Australia
218	The National Archives collecting policy
219	Special access
220	Passenger arrivals index
221	High Court of Australia
222	Mildenhall photographic collection
223	Migrant selection documents in Adelaide
224	The Wave Hill walk-off
225	Charles Nelson Perkins
226	Customs House, Brisbane
227	Immigration records
228	Torrens Island Quarantine Station, South Australia
229	Access to damaged, fragile or contaminated records
231	Neville Bonner
232	Industrial relations records held in Melbourne
233	Lighthouse records held in Brisbane
234	United States forces in Queensland, 1941–45
235	Francis Edgar Williams, anthropologist of Papua
236	Records relating to Italian migration held in Brisbane
237	International Women's Year, 1975
238	The 'Balibo affair', East Timor, October 1975
239	The loans affair, 1974–75
240	The dismissal, 1975
241	John Robert Kerr, Governor-General of Australia, 1974–77
242	Prime Minister John Malcolm Fraser
243	The fall of Saigon, 1975
244	Industrial development in Australia after World War II
245	Patent, trademark and design records in Brisbane
246	Cabinet records of the Fraser government, 1975–83
247	Australia's diplomatic relations with China
248	Daniel Mannix, Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne
249	The National Archives digitisation service
250	Albert Hall, Canberra
251	Australia’s national anthem
252	Tobacco advertising ban in Australia
253	Australian Atomic Energy Commission
254	The Immigration Photographic Archive
255	Australia and the issue of apartheid in sport
256	Passenger records held in Adelaide
257	Official access
258	Torres Strait Treaty, 1978
259	South Australian lighthouse records
260	South Australian maritime records
261	Independence of Papua New Guinea, 1975
262	Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security
263	Independence of Zimbabwe
264	Finding records relating to an Indigenous person
265	Patent records held in Canberra
266	The sinking of the Montevideo Maru
267	Robert James Lee Hawke
268	Aboriginal petitions
269	South Sea Islanders
270	Indigenous family history beyond the National Archives
271	Downer family collection

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