White Australia policy – message from the Hong Kong Chinese soccer team
This is an urgent teleprinter message to Blakeney, Department of External Affairs, Canberra, regarding the visit of a soccer team from Hong Kong.
Maintaining a White Australia Policy – draft report for Prime Minister John Curtin
This is a draft report for the Prime Minister on John G Latham's letter and memo of 21 September 1943.
Patrick White
This posed black-and-white photograph shows Patrick White, Australian writer and Nobel Laureate in Literature.
Our Privacy Policy
This policy outlines how the National Archives of Australia will manage personal information collected in the course of carrying out its business.
Archival policy and planning
A range of policies govern the National Archives' operations and projects.
White Australia postcard – application for copyright registration
This is a postcard design submitted to the Designs Office on 26 February 1912 for registration under the Designs Act 1906.
Preservation Policy 2021-2025
The National Archives of Australia's Preservation Policy will drive the development of strategies to address our collection’s inherent preservation challenges.
Justifying Australia's migration policy – memorandum from Department of External Affairs
Memorandum by Arthur Calwell regarding Australian immigration policy.
Commonwealth banking policy
Information on National Archives records related to Commonwealth banking policy.
Letter from Prime Minister Edmund Barton acknowledging gift promoting White Australia
This is a letter from Prime Minister Edmund Barton acknowledging a gift promoting White Australia from residents of Mt Lyell in Tasmania.
Information management policies
Learn about the National Archives' policies and strategies that support sound information and records management practices.
Cartoon mocking Australia's migration policies
A cartoon related to Australians working overseas.
Distributed custody policy
This policy sets out the conditions and arrangements under which Commonwealth archival records may be held by institutions other than the Archives.
Liberalisation of immigration policy
Attachment to a 1969 memorandum to Entry Policy Branch.
Previous policies – information management
Superseded Information management policies can be found on this page.
Developing an information management policy
Learn how to create an information management policy to improve your organisation's information management practices.
Attacks on Australia's migration policy in Pakistani newspaper
Memorandum for the Secretary, Department of External Affairs, regarding the content of a Pakistani newspaper.
Restricted migration for economic reasons – newspaper transcript on Labor Party's policy
A transcript of an article in The Canberra Times about the Labour Party's adoption of restricted migration (the White Australia policy), published in 1943.
Our Cloud Information Governance Policy
The National Archives' Cloud Information Governance Policy sets out the information governance arrangements for all National Archives of Australia’s information assets created, stored, or managed through the use of cloud computing.
Chinese dragon at Australia Day Festival, Canberra
Australia's identity has changed significantly since World War II. The Australian Government's White Australia policy was formally abandoned in the 1970s and replaced with policies focused on multiculturalism.