Melbourne is renowned for its amazing public architecture. Designs of buildings once owned or leased by the Australian Government provide a window into history.

This fact sheet provides information on post office records in the National Archives.

Our e-learning products help build digital information and records management knowledge and capabilities across the Australian Government.

The term 'personal record collections' is used by the Archives to refer to groups of records accumulated and maintained by significant individuals (for their own purposes) who served within, or were closely associated with, the Commonwealth Government. Personal records add to the understanding of Commonwealth records created by government departments and agencies.

Manage needed business information in systems that protect its integrity and support trusted and reliable use.

Information on researching artistic and literary copyright records in the National Archives.

Records disposal freeze: Records related to the Vietnam War - Details of the records disposal freeze

Find out more about agency-specific records authorities and access general records authorities (GRAs) for keeping, destroying or transferring records of business common to many agencies.

Learn more about how records authorities that govern keeping, destroying or transferring Australian Government records apply to your agency.

Records disposal freeze: Records relating to atomic testing - Details of the records disposal freeze

Information on accessing lighthouse records held in Tasmania.

GRA30 - records damaged beyond recovery in a natural disaster, a defined emergency or other unforeseen circumstance - 2011/00064423 - issued 2011

Records authorities (RAs) are issued to individual agencies by the National Archives and cover agency-specific core business.

The National Archives holds a range of record relating to Australian citizenship, including naturalisation certificates and case files.

This advice for record disposal is for Australian Government agencies that do not have, or are in the process of developing, agency-specific records authorities

Advice to agencies about records relating to COVID-19: Identifying and retaining agency core business records; AFDA Express Version 2 Implementation Guideline; Recording and keeping information to support contact tracing (public attendance information); Recording and keeping information relating to COVID-19 vaccination status .

Information for agencies, researchers and individuals wanting to access archival records.

Ordering digital copies of paper records in our collection database.

Records disposal freeze: Records related to allegations of abuse in Defence - Details of the records disposal freeze issued on 22 October 2012

Passenger arrival records tell us how people moved into and out of Australia. You can search these arrival records in our collection.