This is the High Court of Australia's judgement regarding Ali Abdul's right to live in Australia.

The National Archives' collection holds official records of each prime minister's time in office. These official records are supplemented with personal records that illuminate their lives.

A completed application form by an Albanian refugee seeking permission to enter Australia.

This is a letter to C. Massey, Australian Commissioner for Malaya, regarding an application to visit Australia.

This is a government bulletin that was published in Australia in 1948 by the newly formed Department of Immigration.

This is a memo from Acting Immigration Inspector to the Officer in Charge of the Entry Policy Branch, sent on 18 December 1967.

Memorandum for the Australian Commissioner, Singapore about the Marital status of women travelling to Australia for education.

This black-and-white photograph shows the Indigenous leader Sir Douglas Nicholls giving a speech on the lawns of Government House in Adelaide.

Australia’s response to the Spanish flu pandemic was marked by disagreements between state and federal governments.

This guide contains information on records about Australia's relations with Indonesia, its most populous neighbour.

Illegal brewing had its heyday in rural Australia during the 1930s.

A newspaper article from the Sunday Sun on 29 May 1949, covering hostility between Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell and Deputy Prime Minister H. V. Evatt.

A new National Archives of Australia exhibition examines the nation’s response to space research and exploration from the 1950s to the 1970s.    

This colour photograph shows Poison Creek, south of Agnew, Western Australia, dried up during drought in 1971.

This colour photograph shows an aerial view of part of the Ord River in the east Kimberley region of northern Western Australia.

Notice in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette of the results of the 1967 referendum.

Antonia Bellomarino's application form for entering Australia as a migrant.

David Fricker announced this morning that his term as Director-General of the National Archives of Australia will conclude at the end of December this year.

Summary of replies from Customs Authorities in response to an inquiry about the numbers and locations of Mohammedan priests and permanent mosques in Australia.

Australia, home of the 'fair go', but who are the ordinary and extraordinary people who have made our nation what it is today? And how can we learn from their actions? National Archives of Australia asks these questions in its touring exhibition Disrupt, persist, invent: Australians in an ever-changing world.