Records

Each record focuses on a single item from the National Archives' collection. Some records contain extra information to help you interpret them.

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  Plan for Canberra

  This is the winning entry in the 1911 Federal Capital City Design Competition.

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  Polling booth in rural ACT

  This is a colour photograph of a polling booth at what appears to be a wooden community hall.

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  Portrait of Prime Minister Bob Hawke

  This is a black-and-white photograph of the Hon Robert James Lee Hawke, Australia's twenty-third Prime Minister.

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  Portrait of Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce and his wife Ethel Bruce

  This black-and-white photograph shows Australian Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce and his wife Ethel at Old Parliament House.

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  Portrait of Wiradjuri elder Jimmy 'King Billy' Clements outside Parliament House

  A black-and-white photograph of Aboriginal man Jimmy Clements (1847–1927), known as 'King Billy', standing outside (then) Parliament House in Canberra in 1927.

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  Prime Minister Bruce hands over to James Scullin

  Prime Minister Bruce and James Scullin in the prime minister's office in (Old) Parliament House, the day before Scullin was sworn in as the new prime minister.

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  Protest against the Vietnam War outside Old Parliament House

  A demonstration against the Vietnam War outside (old) Parliament House in Canberra, during the visit to Australia of United States Vice President Spiro Agnew.

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  Public hostility between Labor ministers over immigration policy

  A newspaper article from the Sunday Sun on 29 May 1949, covering hostility between Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell and Deputy Prime Minister H. V. Evatt.

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  Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Robert Menzies at a function during the royal visit

  A black-and-white photograph of Queen Elizabeth II with Prime Minister Robert Menzies at an official function during the royal visit to Australia in 1954.