Current state assessment
Assessing your current state helps your agency to understand your business, data, and information management environment.
Information Publication Scheme
The National Archives of Australia Information Publication Scheme.
Recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
The final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse recommends principles for records and recordkeeping relating to child safety and wellbeing.
Principle 5: How long business information should be kept is known
Analyse and document how long to keep business information to meet identified business and community needs.
General Records Authority 39
GRA39 - public interest disclosure - 2016/00471400 - issued 2016
Principle 8: Business information is available for use and reuse
Create and manage business information so that it can be effectively accessed over time by staff and other users with a right of access.
AFDA Express Version 2 Implementation Guideline: records relating to the COVID-19 pandemic
Government agencies are documenting activities relating to their business functions and administrative responsibilities in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
National description strategy 2021–2024
The main purpose of the National Archives of Australia‘s descriptive work is to facilitate public access to the archival records it holds.
Interoperability key themes
Interoperability is built around 5 key themes: business, security, legal, semantic and technical.
Principle 1: Business information is systematically governed
Proactively plan and implement information governance to manage business information as an asset to support business outcomes, needs and obligations.
Information Management Standard for Australian Government
Well-managed business information is a valuable asset that contributes to good government .
Capability Review Action Plan
Capability Review Action Plan for National Archives of Australia
Contact us
Get in touch with the National Archives via our contact form.
Principle 4: Business information is suitably stored and preserved
Store business information securely and preserve it in a useable condition for as long as required for business needs and community access.
Agency-specific records authorities
Records authorities (RAs) are issued to individual agencies by the National Archives and cover agency-specific core business.
Developing an enterprise-wide information management strategy
An information management strategy helps your agency align its information management practices and meet the requirements of an information governance framework
Choosing the right paper
Paper has various properties that contribute to its performance, the most notable of which are pH level, strength, opacity and whiteness.
National service and war, 1939–45
Information on National Archives records about national service and war, 1939–45.
Universal military training in Australia, 1911–29
Information on National Archives records about universal military training in Australia from 1911 to 1929.
AFDA Express Version 2 – Industrial Relations
AFDA Express Version 2 – Industrial Relations
