This fact sheet provides information on National Archives records about the Japanese midget submarine attacks on Sydney in 1942.

The National Archives holds alien registration forms for immigrants who had restrictions put on them in the interest of Australia's national security.

This fact sheet provides information on alien registration records held in Perth.

Do you need to provide proof of your arrival in, or departure from, Australia? We may be able to help.

A special stop on the Trans-Australian Railway let passengers stop and smell the flowers.

Cabinet records created in the year 2002 offer an insight into John Howard's second term, and part of his third term as prime minister.

Information on researching World War I internee, alien and POW records held in Adelaide.

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

In January 1912, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, or AAE, established a main base on the Antarctic continent at Cape Denison. Three-thousand kilometres south of Australia, and on the same longitude as Melbourne, the collection of buildings later became known as Mawson’s Huts. Those huts served as living quarters, a workshop, and a base for scientific observations on one of the first truly scientific expeditions to the icy continent.

Troopship records are an often-overlooked source to help you fill in your family’s history.

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

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.

See the sketches of Rex Julius, a little-known war artist commissioned by the Australian War Memorial and Australian Military History Section in 1944.

Italian POWs recruited to build the Trans-Australian Railway.

How to find migrant selection documents held in Adelaide.

This fact sheet provides information on World War I internee, alien and POW records held in Sydney.

‘Reported missing’. For the Mann family, these dreaded words were the beginning of an agonizing wait to know the fate of their sons.

This fact sheet provides information on National Archives records about the sinking of the Montevideo Maru.

This fact sheet provides information on National Archives records about United States forces in Queensland.

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