The National Archives has more than 600 surveillance and training films created or collected by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).

In 1911, Marion Mahony Griffin and her husband Walter Burley Griffin imagined the Australian capital during a cold Chicago winter.

The New Guard was a monarchist and anti-leftist movement active from 1931 to 1935.

Talking chairs, a floating glass building and a self-driving railway. Step into the past (or was it the future?) at Expo 67 in Montreal.

The town of Wittenoom was built on the dream of a natural resource worth more than gold: blue asbestos.

This fact sheet provides information on National Archives records about Indonesian independence.

Stay up to date on current disposal freezes and retention of records notices.

Royal Australian Airforce records documenting UFO sightings reported to the government.

In 1989 two stars aligned - the first from the silver screen, and the second a 'Silver Bodgie'.

Records relating to child migrants to New South Wales - including migrant selection documents, passenger lists and immigration policy files.

Other archival institutions in Australia that can help with your research.

Cabinet records created in the year 2004 offer an insight into John Howard's third term as prime minister.

An online exhibition celebrates 20th-century Aussie beach culture through vintage photographs.

In 1954 a steamship arrived in Sydney Harbour carrying the first reigning monarch to visit Australia – Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip.

Background to the 2002 Cabinet papers by Associate Professor David Lee, University of New South Wales.

This fact sheet provides information on National Archives records about the Cockatoo Island dockyard.

This fact sheet provides information on National Archives records about the Torrens Island Quarantine Station.

An overview of Cabinet records created in the year 2003 which became available to access on 1 January 2024.

Touching down in Darwin in 1919, a former WWI bomber won the Great Australian Air Race and became the first international flight to land in Australia.

On 20 April 2022, the Moro family visited the National Archives to observe the 100th anniversary of their mother and grandmother leaving Italy for Australia.