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Fact sheets on other subjects

Contents

• Building, design & construction
• Education & training
• Government & politics
• Elections & voting
• Health & quarantine
• International relations & Australian territories
• National symbols
• Royal commissions, committees & inquiries
• Science & the environment
• Sport, leisure & culture
• Trade, industry & the economy
• Transport & communications

Building, design & construction

• Building the provisional Parliament House
• Civil Constructional Corps records held in Perth
• Coastal fortifications in New South Wales
• Coastal fortifications in South Australia
• Cockatoo Island Dockyard
• Cyclone Tracy, Darwin
• Design and development of the National Capital
• Fremantle Harbour
• Griffin, Walter Burley and the design of Canberra
• Industrial development in Australia after WW II
• Lighthouse records held in Brisbane
• Lighthouse records held in Hobart
• Migrant hostels in New South Wales, 1946–78
• Mildenhall photographic collection
• Patent, trademark and design records in Brisbane
• Post Office records
• Tasmanian railways

Buildings

• Albert Hall, Canberra
• Customs House, Brisbane
• Customs House, Sydney
• Customs Houses in South Australia
• Customs House, Port Adelaide, South Australia
• East Block building, Canberra
• General Post Office, Sydney
• Gorman House, Canberra
• Government House, Canberra
• Mount Stromlo Observatory
• North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney
• Royal Military College, Duntroon

Education & training

• Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme administrative records
• Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme applicants and trainees
• Royal Military College, Duntroon
• Universal military training in Australia, 1911–29
• Williams, Francis Edgar, anthropologist of Papua

Government & politics

• Australia and the issue of apartheid in sport
• Australian Atomic Energy Commission
• The Browne-Fitzpatrick privilege case, 1955
• Cabinet notebooks
• Cabinet records
• Cabinet records of the Fraser government, 1975–83
• Canberra air disaster, 1940
• Commonwealth of Australia Gazettes
• The dismissal, 1975
• High Court of Australia
• The House of Representatives Standing Committee of Privileges
• Lang, JT and Lang Labor
• The loans affair, 1974–75
• Parliamentary Papers
• Shedden, Sir Frederick and the Shedden collection
• War Cabinet records

Elections & voting

• Conscription referendums, 1916 and 1917
• The 1967 referendum
• Commonwealth electoral rolls held in Perth
• Commonwealth electoral rolls held in Brisbane

Health & quarantine

• British nuclear tests at Maralinga
• Flynn, Reverend John and the Australian Inland Mission
• North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney
• Royal Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
• Tobacco advertising ban in Australia
• Torrens Island Quarantine Station, South Australia

International relations & Australian territories

• Australia and the issue of apartheid in sport
• Australia and the United Nations
• Australia's diplomatic relations with China
• Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War
• Australian Antarctic exploration and research
• Christmas Island
• The Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• The 'Balibo affair', East Timor, October 1975
• External Affairs cables
• The fall of Saigon, 1975
• Indonesian independence
• Israel, foundation of the State 1948
• Papua New Guinea patrol reports
• Records of Papua New Guinea, 1883–1942
• United States forces in Queensland, 1941–45

National symbols

• Administration of the Australian Capital Territory
• Australia's national anthem
• The Australian flag
• Building the provisional Parliament House
• Design and development of the National Capital
• Griffin, Walter Burley and the design of Canberra
• Royalty and Australian society

Royal commissions, committees & inquiries

• British nuclear tests at Maralinga
• The Browne-Fitzpatrick privilege case, 1955
• The House of Representatives Standing Committee of Privileges
• Introducing television to Australia, 1956
• Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
• Royal Commission on Espionage, 1954–55

Science & the environment

• Aerial photographs
• Army Inventions Directorate, 1942–46
• Australian Antarctic exploration and research
• Australian Atomic Energy Commission
• British nuclear tests at Maralinga
• Cyclones and the Northern Territory
• Cyclone Tracy, Darwin
• Introducing television to Australia, 1956
• Mount Stromlo Observatory
• Patent, trademark and design records in Brisbane
• Radar research in Australia during World War II
• Radar production and use during World War II
• Williams, Francis Edgar, anthropologist of Papua

Sport, leisure & culture

• ABC Talks Department scripts
• Australia and the issue of apartheid in sport
• Australia's national anthem
• The Australian flag
• Copyright records
• Empire Games, Sydney, 1938
• Gsell, Bishop Francis Xavier
• International Women's Year, 1975
• Introducing television to Australia, 1956
• The Jewish experience in Australia
• Litchfield, Jessie Sinclair
• Melbourne Olympics, 1956
• Namatjira, Albert
• Royalty and Australian society
• Tobacco advertising ban in Australia
• United States forces in Queensland, 1941–45

Trade, industry & the economy

• Army Invention Directorate, 1942–46
• Bankruptcy records held in Sydney
• Christmas Island
• Cockatoo Island Dockyard
• Copyright records
• Commonwealth banking policy
• Connellan, EJ and Connellan Airways
• Customs House, Sydney
• Customs Houses in South Australia
• Customs House, Port Adelaide, South Australia
• Excise control of distilled products in South Australia
• Fremantle Harbour
• Industrial development in Australia after WW II
• Industrial Relations records held in Melbourne
• The loans affair, 1974–75
• Monash, General Sir John
• Pastoral industry in the Northern Territory
• Patent, trademark and design records in Brisbane
• Regulation of beer and brewing in South Australia
• Stevedoring industry
• Tobacco advertising ban in Australia
• Wine industry in South Australia

Transport & communications

• Canberra air disaster, 1940
• Cockatoo Island Dockyard
• Connellan, EJ and Connellan Airways
• Customs shipping records held in Sydney
• Fremantle Harbour
• Flynn, Reverend John and the Australian Inland Mission
• Japanese midget submarine attacks on Sydney, 1942
• Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles
• Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles – photographs
• Lighthouse records held in Brisbane
• Lighthouse records held in Hobart
• Maritime records held in Hobart
• North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney
• Post Office records
• Passenger records held in Brisbane
• Passenger records held in Canberra
• Passenger records held in Hobart
• Passenger records held in Melbourne
• Passenger records held in Perth
• Passenger records held in Sydney
• Tasmanian railways
• Torrens Island Quarantine Station, South Australia