Prospectus for pro-White Australia policy publication 'Australia unlimited'
This is a four page prospectus for a pro-White Australia publication, circa 1913.
Government Information as Public Information
A paper Director-General David Fricker presented at the Australian Institute of Administrative Law National Administrative Law Conference in Canberra, July 2017.
National Archives releases new whole-of-government information management policy
National Archives has officially released its next whole-of-government information management policy, 'Building trust in the public record'.
Appointment of women to the Commonwealth Public Service – Note for Cabinet discussion
Ronald Mendelsohn, an adviser to Prime Minister Menzies, provides information to Cabinet on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service.
Returned soldiers employed building the Great Ocean Road
Brochure for the soldiers' memorial highway on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria.
The opening of the first Commonwealth Parliament of Australia at the Melbourne exhibition building
A photograph depicting the ceremony of the opening of the Commonwealth Parliament.
ASIO records – exempt information
Because of their sensitive nature, many ASIO records contain information that is exempt from public access.
Releasing records for access
Under the Archives Act 1983, Commonwealth records can be accessed by the public once they enter the open access period unless they contain exempt information.
Equal pay and opportunity for women in the Commonwealth Public Service – letter to Prime Minister Robert Menzies
This document is the file copy of a letter dated 12 July 1950 about the treatment of female clerks in the Commonwealth Public Service.
Records Authority 2007/00367755
Agency Records Authority 2007/00367755 Australian Public Service Commission
Memorandum regarding publicity for the Chinese soccer team's visit
This is a memorandum written in 1953 by FJ Blakeney, Department of External Affairs, Melbourne, regarding the Chinese soccer team's visit to Australia.
General Records Authority 39
GRA39 - public interest disclosure - 2016/00471400 - issued 2016
General Records Authority 29
GRA29 - public or official inquiries - 2010/00643962 - issued 2010
Petition for separating children at Darwin Public School according to ethnicity
A petition for separate classes for European children, signed by 26 parents.
Public hostility between Labor ministers over immigration policy
A newspaper article from the Sunday Sun on 29 May 1949, covering hostility between Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell and Deputy Prime Minister H. V. Evatt.
Strategy 2025–2030: Evolving National Archives
Evolving National Archives sets out the vision for a National Archives that is open, valued and trusted.
Records in evidence
Problems can arise with legal acceptance of records as evidence if appropriate business practices are not followed in creating and maintaining records.
Publicity photograph of Indigenous students taken at Doomadgee Mission School in Queensland
This black-and-white photograph shows five Indigenous children at school.
Eradication of the Prickly Pear – letter from the Queensland Department of Public Lands
Reply to a letter written by RS Papprill regarding prickly pear.
Cabinet records
Records of Cabinet meetings document many of the major decisions in Australia's history.
