Information sent to Commonwealth Migration Officers in November 1960 about the establishment of an index of non-Europeans entering and residing in Australia.

A colour photograph of Queen Elizabeth II seated at a table in Government House, Canberra, signing the Proclamation of the Australia Act (Cth) on 2 March 1986.

Letter concerning Captain Albert Jacka's proposed return to Australia, First World War.

A brochure illustration showing the size of European countries compared to Australia.

This is a restricted communication sent to all consular posts on 19 September 1967 regarding entry of non-Europeans to Australia.

Between 31 December 2023 and 5 January 2024, 82 additional Cabinet records from 2003 were transferred from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to National Archives of Australia.

This guide describes the main records in the National Archives collection that relate to South Australian issues, people and events.

This guide introduces readers to Commonwealth government records on citizenship held by the National Archives and provides advice to interested researchers.

Ever since the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Jewish people have been a small but significant group in Australian life.

This photograph shows the South Australian town of Murray Bridge welcoming the French mission only days before the signing the armistice to end the First World War.

Text of cabinet submission on British and alien migration.

This is a memorandum to the Secretary, Department of External Affairs, about the film 'Land short of people', in circulation in South East Asia.

Letter to Australian Commissioner, Singapore, regarding Mr and Mrs Foo Kia Imm and child.

Newspaper extract from 1958 regarding rainmaking and cyclone control.

Letter to the Australian Minister for Labour and National Service from the Mauritian Minister for Labour, HE Walter.

Letter to AH Pritchard, Secretary, The Austral-Indian Society, regarding the case of Ellum Deen.

Letter to W McMahon Ball regarding the legal representation of a group of Malay seamen.

National Archives’ have signed a contract with commercial digitisation provider Micro Image to operate from the Archives’ new industrial scale digitisation hub.

Newspaper article about Mahomet Allum returning from India.

This is a secret cablegram from the Department of External Affairs to the Australian Embassy in Washington.