The remarkable story of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda, the first Aboriginal to appeal to the High Court of Australia, is a tale of conflict, murder, conviction and justice, and ultimately the still unexplained disappearance of Dhakiyarr himself. It has all the makings of a movie script.
The inaugural Joint Archives Consultative Forum will be opened at 2pm on Friday 24 September by the Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, and Senior Archivist Tasmania, Robyn Eastley, at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Inveresk.
The Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs is delighted to announce the acquisition of a key document in connection with the sinking of HMAS Sydney.
The Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, has called on archivists from Australia and overseas to apply for a research grant to promote the important contribution that archives makes to Australian society.
The Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, today officially welcomed some of the world’s leading archivists to the inaugural Advances in Digital Preservation International Working Meeting in Canberra to discuss the preservation of digital objects around the world.
The Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, has announced that Dr Christina Twomey of Monash University and Dr Nicole Moore of Macquarie University have each won a Margaret George (Fellowship) Award.
Internationally-renowned novelist and essayist Frank Moorhouse has been awarded the National Archives of Australia’s 2004 Frederick Watson Fellowship.
'Of all the arts, architecture is the one requiring the best qualities of man and the richest in the ennobling influences … invigorating and cheering those who are in touch with her teachings.'
(architect John Horbury Hunt, 19 June 1889)
The National Archives of Australia is now shining a bright beam of light into what’s been described as a looming digital dark age.
Archivists from Australia and New Zealand have joined forces to head off a digital Dark Age and to make sure that governments preserve their digital records.
Former Prime Minister, The Right Hon Malcolm Fraser, CH, AC, will officially open the new Melbourne premises of the National Archives of Australia in the Victorian Archives Centre at 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne on Thursday, 20 May 2004 at 6 pm.
Around ANZAC Day each year, the National Archives receives a surge in the number of people keen to obtain a copy of a relative’s war service record.
A major exhibition of Australian Indigenous art – the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award – Celebrating 20 Years, opens its Australian tour at the National Archives in Canberra on Wednesday, 21 April 2004 at 6 pm.
The annual Family History Fair at the National Archives of Australia on Sunday 4 April (10am to 4pm) is sure to encourage many people to start searching their own family tree.
The Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, today announced that a prominent business archivist, Bruce Smith, has been selected as the winner of the inaugural Ian Maclean Award.
The Consul-General of Japan in Sydney, Mr Yasuaki Nogawa, will launch a National Archives guide to the records of the Japanese in Australia and the Australia-Japan relationship, at the Museum of Sydney on Friday 26 March 2004 at 12 noon.
The Minister Assisting the Prime Minister and Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, the Hon Gary Hardgrave MP, will officially open the new premises of the National Archives of Australia at Cannon Hill in Brisbane on Friday, 20 February 2004 at 5.30 pm.