Resources – Public release schedule
The public release schedule highlights new, updated and existing National Archives products and advice to help your agency meet each of the 17 policy actions.
Information and data governance framework
Read the National Archives of Australia's Information and Data Governance Framework.
Capability Review Action Plan
Capability Review Action Plan for National Archives of Australia
Establishing an information governance framework
Information governance frameworks provide an overview of the influences that inform how an organisation creates and manages its information assets.
Archival Control Model
The Archival Control Model (ACM) for the National Archives of Australia (National Archives) is the Commonwealth Record Series (CRS) system.
The Tandanya Declaration
The Tandanya Declaration on Indigenous matters commits the National Archives to working respectfully with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
In colour: Australia's first deadlock
Newly rediscovered tapes in National Archives capture the 1974 joint sitting after the controversial double dissolution.
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.
Personal Records Collections - Acquisitions Policy and Strategic Framework 2021-24
National Archives of Australia has collected the official and private records (personal records) collections of significant individuals who served within, or were closely associated with the Commonwealth government since the early 1960s.
Disposal of records in National Archives' custody following digitisation policy
This policy outlines the framework for the disposal of records in the National Archives’ custody following digitisation.
Creating a scrapbook
There are several issues to consider when making a scrapbook for your family archive.
Reconciliation Action Plan 2014-15
The National Archives' Reconciliation Action Plan represents an exciting opportunity to find new ways of working together to make records of cultural, historical and personal significance available in culturally sensitive and appropriate ways.
Deadline 2025: the race to future-proof our audiovisual collection
Thousands of important videotapes in our collection are at risk because the VHS machines needed to play them are no longer being manufactured.
Principle 8: Business information is available for use and reuse
Create and manage business information so that it can be effectively accessed over time by staff and other users with a right of access.
Our service standards
The standards of service you can expect from the Archives.
Building trust in the public record
Building trust in the public record identifies key requirements for managing Australian Government information assets (records, information and data).
Capability, skills and professional development
Information management professionals need to ensure their skills keep pace with legislation and the changing landscape around records, information and data.
Types of information
Find out about the types of information a typical agency needs to manage.
Publications
Our annual reports, corporate plan and reconciliation action plan.
Recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
The final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse recommends principles for records and recordkeeping relating to child safety and wellbeing.