National Archives of Australia
Topics in our collection
Explore topics covered by records in the National Archives collection. You can see samples of records in our Snapshots of the collection.
Australian Constitution and Federation
Find out how Australia became a nation by exploring the Archives' rich store of documents relating to Federation and the Constitution.
Find out about Cabinet records from 1965 to 1983, and Cabinet notebooks.
Find records relating to defence administration, conflicts, the forces and service personnel.
Find out about alien registration, migrant selection documents, passenger records, migrant accommodation records, naturalisation (citizenship) records and more.
Read up on ASIO files and other records about Australia's security and intelligence activities.
Records about service in the Australian defence forces – personnel dossiers and case files from Federation (1901) onward