• The Waterhouse natural history Art Prize – Coming soon

    Spiky vintage chairs, technicolour paper bugs and watercolour vegetables. Find these and more quirky expressions of our natural world with the 2012 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize™ –  More...

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    Are you finalising your agency’s Check-up 2.0 submission? There are 13 days to go! More...

  • Montevideo Maru

    The National Archives of Australia has recently acquired what is reliably thought to be the most complete list of those on the Montevideo Maru when it was sunk in July 1942. More...

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    The Digital Transition Policy requires all Commonwealth agencies to manage their information and records digitally and to stop creating new paper records. More...

  • Bonds of Sacrifice

    The National Archives is proud to share the portraits of 500 Australian World War I diggers on our website. We thank the Department of Veterans' Affairs for funding digitisation of these portraits, discovered in the Bonds of Sacrifice collection at the Imperial War Museum, London. More...

  • Our Preservation team do remarkable work to preserve documents and objects from our collection. Read their blog articles on current projects. More...

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