The Australian Privacy Principles (2014) regulate the handling of personal information. They apply to Australian government agencies and private enterprise.

GRA37 - research and development - 2022/00304018 - issued 2022, and 2024/00633919

Use our step-by-step guide to help you find records that relate to individual Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people.

The Archival Control Model (ACM) for the National Archives of Australia (National Archives) is the Commonwealth Record Series (CRS) system.

Information on National Archives records about Italian migration held in Sydney.

Information on National Archives records relating to Italian migration, held in Perth.

Advice to agencies on the information required for contract tracing records and disposal.

Records relating to child migrants to New South Wales - including migrant selection documents, passenger lists and immigration policy files.

A targeted records retention notice (RRN) was issued to selected Commonwealth agencies on 23 September 2021 to support the production of records for the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. If your agency head or information and records manager has not received a formal notice from the National Archives it is unlikely that your agency will be required to produce records for the Royal Commission. The notice remains in force until further notice from the National Archives.
The notice suspends the National Archives’ permission to destroy or transfer records that may be required by the Royal Commission. Agencies in receipt of the notice are legally obliged to preserve any such records.
The named Australian Government agencies in this retention notice are required by law to protect from destruction any relevant records subject to this notice. If other agencies identify potentially relevant records they should advise the National Archives as soon as possible

This notice has been published on the National Archives’ Records disposal freezes and retention notices website page.
Any questions in relation to the records retention notice may be directed to the National Archives via the Agency Service Centre.

GRA39 - public interest disclosure - 2016/00471400 - issued 2016

This fact sheet provides information on Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme administrative records.

This page is a quick reference guide on using General Records Authority 38 - Ministers of State

Records disposal freeze: Records related to misconduct in the banking, superannuation and financial services industry - Details of the withdrawal of the records disposal freeze on 11 December 2019

Find out what you need to do to recover records after a flood or fire.

This guide is an essential reference for anyone wanting to access Commonwealth Government archival records held in Melbourne.

GRA41 - Child sexual abuse incidents and allegations - 2018/00421155 - issued 2018

Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022, Commonwealth records and data assets, Governance, Asset discovery.

This research guide provides a detailed history of the Cockatoo Island Dockyard, and a comprehensive guide to the relevant Commonwealth records.

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

Details of pay and allotment history records for Western Australian enlistees to the Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force.