This letter was sent to W Caldwell, International Labour Office, League of Nations, Geneva on 11 July 1938 regarding the conditions of entry to Australia.

An excerpt from the Bradfield and Idriess Plan to water inland Australia.

Opening this week in Canberra, Disrupt, persist, invent profiles the many different and sometimes unexpected ways people have pushed for change in Australia.

In 1942, food and other commodities were so scarce that the Australian Government had to impose rationing to ensure that everyone had a fair share.

By the end of World War II, Australia was suffering from shortages in the work force. Its small population and isolation increased its sense of vulnerability.

National Archives of Australia’s new Northern Territory Office is now open at 24 Mitchell St Darwin City, located on the land of the Larrakia people.

Extract of newspaper article about British immigrants being sent to Australia.

Reply to the Secretary, Department of External Affairs, regarding mosques in Western Australia.

Issues of who is or can become an Australian citizen are closely tied to government policy. The White Australia policy stopped many non-Europeans becoming citizens in the 20th century.

Annie Maas O'Keefe's successful fight against deportation in 1949 was a significant event in the dismantling of the White Australia Policy.

This is a colour photograph of the Hon. Kevin Rudd, Australia's 26th prime minister.

Cabinet Decision No. 297: Asian migration to Australia from Kenya with British passports.

Newspaper article about the possibility that European internees may be allowed to remain in Australia.

Post-war reconstruction in Australia became a much broader phenomenon than simply the re-establishment of servicemen and women. After more than a decade of economic depression and war, there was a widespread belief that radical political, economic, social and cultural changes in Australia and in the wider world were necessary. Cultural nationalism, evident in much of the art and literature of the 1940s, influenced attitudes to reconstruction.

This is a colour photograph of the Hon. John Howard, Australia's twenty-fifth Prime Minister walking up the steps of the National Archives of Australia.

Sea to suburbia, a new photographic exhibition at National Archives' Western Australia
Office, offers an insight into the evolving identity of Western Australia.

The Australian people vote on proposed changes to the constitution at a referendum. 

In the aftermath of World War II, the Australian Government embarked on a large-scale immigration program.

From playing games with friends to going to school, some parts of childhood never seem to change.

Letter of reply to W Abourizk regarding Syrian migrants.