Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin's love of nature was fundamental to their design for Australia's new capital.

Over 400,000 people enlisted to do their part in ‘The Great War’. Even more tried to sign up. Unfortunately, enthusiasm wasn’t always a match for the Army’s exacting standards.

An expedition to find Lincoln Ellsworth and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon who flew a Northrop Gamma aircraft named Polar Star.

Alfred Bayliss was selected as Australia’s 25,000th post-war Maltese migrant.

The Malta-Australia Migration Agreement and a young shipwright named Anthony Grima.

In the 1990s Johnson and friends became a highly popular Australian television show, locally and abroad.

Petitions held by the National Archives of Australia help to tell the story of Aboriginal activism from as early as the 1930s.

Our Tasmania Office is open to the public.

The Commonwealth Record Series System lets the National Archives keep track of Commonwealth Government agencies and the records they produce.

Find records about more than 3200 children who migrated to Australia under approved schemes between 1947 and 1953.

Attempts to stop the prickly pear in its march across eastern Australia were nothing less than full-scale war.

Ruby Payne-Scott was a pioneer radio physicist, mother, teacher, bushwalker and outspoken advocate for women’s rights.

Sydney Opera house then and now.

Get tips on exploring our collection of records relating to Australian prime ministers. Find other collections in Australia and around the world.

Information on records in the National Archives about the life and work of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

This fact sheet provides information on National Archives records about John Kerr, Governor-General of Australia from 1974–77.

This page provides links to extracts from the Gazette outlining changes to Administrative orders

This fact sheet provides information on the Second World War internee, alien and POW records held in Canberra.

This fact sheet provides information on National Archives records about the 1940 Canberra air disaster.

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