Top entries in Australia’s richest natural history art prize feature in a new exhibition at the National Archives in Canberra.

The National Archives of Australia will support a groundbreaking project that uses creative visualisation to interpret large sets of archival data, with its 2008 Ian Maclean Award.

While communicators today share their news through You Tube, in 1925 the ‘pneu tube’ was all the rage.

People around Australia can now see the National Archives’ popular exhibition Strike a Pose online. The exhibition, which recently opened, features trends of the 1960s and 1970s in a celebration of Australian fashion photography.

‘Rather a dry year’ was in store for Australia in 1908, according to long range weather forecaster J Harcourt Giddons. The National Archives has chosen Giddons’ 1908 Commonwealth Weather Chart as its August Find of the Month.

Government archivists across the world should develop close links with ‘natural allies’ to encourage better recordkeeping across their public services, says Ross Gibbs, Director-General of the National Archives of Australia.

From carbon paper to laser printers, the story of office copying has been captured in The Office Copying Revolution, a new book by conservator Ian Batterham, published by the National Archives of Australia.

A multinational team, led by archival institutions in Australia and New Zealand, has published a global standard for recordkeeping software. The National Archives of Australia has worked with the national archives of 11 nations to develop an agreed set of standards for software products that are used to make and keep records.

The National Archives of Australia continues to push for an integrated approach to managing digital information at the 16th International Council on Archives (ICA) Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Held every four years, the Congress celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2008, and has attracted 1200 archivists from 138 countries. The ICA promotes the preservation, development and use of the world’s archival heritage.

Trends of the 1960s and 1970s have taken centre stage at the National Archives in Canberra with a celebration of Australian fashion photography. Strike a Pose … with Lee Lin Chin explores the world of Australian style up to 40 years ago, when trendsetters created a fashion revolution with a mix of mini skirts, space-aged garments and granny dresses.

Cabinet Secretary, Senator John Faulkner, has likened the Australian Constitution to a stump-jump plough, designed to go over obstacles without actually removing them.

Cabinet Secretary, Senator John Faulkner, today launched the National Archives’ Making Australia Home project which aims to progressively make Australia’s historic immigration records available online. The National Archives has already digitised 74,000 items, giving family researchers and others the opportunity to view and print their files at home.

The National Archives has joined forces with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship to highlight the importance of the Australian Constitution to all citizens, new and old.

A proposal to establish a federal Aboriginal electorate that crossed state boundaries, came up against ‘a constitutional barrier’ in 1949.

The first Australian map of the whole Antarctic continent, published in 1939, became part of the National Archives of Australia’s collection today, with a presentation by the Australian Antarctic Division.

The National Archives of Australia is proud to be co-sponsoring and hosting the Longest Night Film Festival as part of this year’s Mid-Winter Antarctic Festival.

The challenges of managing information in a digital world will be discussed by national archivists from Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand at the National Convention Centre in Canberra today.

The people of Brisbane will have a one-day opportunity to view Sir Samuel Griffith’s personal 1891 draft of the Australian Constitution this week.

Visitors to the National Archives in Canberra have only one more week to catch the Max Dupain on Assignment exhibition.

Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam has shared his personal recollections of 11 November 1975, the day he was dismissed by then Governor-General Sir John Kerr.

Getting the mail through in colonial Australia wasn’t always an easy matter. In the days before Federation in 1901, the safe delivery of letters depended upon the dedication of posties who often suffered from accidents, poor health and hardship.

As its Find of the Month for June, the National Archives of Australia has chosen to feature documents relating to postal services in the early days of the nation.

From 1974 to 1977 the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security, headed by Justice Robert Marsden Hope, investigated the Australian intelligence agencies. While some reports were published at the time, others have been securely stored for 30 years.

Now, 30 years after the conclusion of the Royal Commission, the National Archives of Australia is releasing much of the material from the reports and more than 1000 records created or received by the Commission.

Footprints, a book portraying the struggles of Lucy and Percy Pepper, has been published jointly by the National Archives of Australia and Public Record Office Victoria.

The Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, has welcomed the agency’s transfer today into the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

In writing ‘Banish the budget blues’ in 1930, popular songwriter and entertainer Jack Lumsdaine captured the spirit of many Australians trying to overcome hardship with a song and a laugh during the Great Depression.

Photographs of Australian troops at Gallipoli, taken by three young diggers in 1915, have been chosen by the National Archives of Australia as its April Find of the Month exhibit.

Colourful board games, played by Australians in the early 1900s, will also tempt players at the National Folk Festival in Canberra this Easter.

Actor Noni Hazlehurst spoke about her family’s arrival in Melbourne as ‘ten-pound poms’ today when she launched Family Journeys, the book containing their story, published by the National Archives of Australia.

Australia’s capital city may have been known as Gamelyn, Nardoo, Aurora or Frazer Roo if some of the nation’s early politicians had their way.

Senator Faulkner, Special Minister of State and Minister responsible for the National Archives of Australia will officially open the National Archives 'Shake Your Family Tree' day at 10.00am on Wednesday 27 February.

This week, the archives of the High Court of Australia will be added to the Australian register for UNESCO’s Memory of the World program.  Memory of the World is a register of significant heritage documents maintained by UNESCO.  It is the equivalent of the World Heritage List, which records sites of natural and built heritage significance.

Help is at hand to salvage water-damaged personal records. The National Archives of Australia has released website content that highlights practical steps to take when faced with wet personal documents.

A limited edition LP, Silver Jubilee Australian Top 20 has been selected by the National Archives of Australia as its February Find of the Month, not only for its royal significance but also because of a faux pas by Countdown presenter Molly Meldrum.

Visitors to the National Archives are often surprised and delighted to find information about themselves and their families in the collection. To encourage Australians to unearth these personal treasures, all Australians are invited to a national day of activities.

Following Federation in 1901, the new Commonwealth government held a competition to design an Australian flag. It attracted 32,000 entries from around the world, including five similar designs which were declared the joint winners.

However, 50 years later there was some controversy about the origins of the design.