This guide highlights the unique and rich history of the Northern Territory and explores it through Commonwealth Government records.
It makes extensive references to the records held by the National Archives in Canberra and Darwin, and to those held by the Northern Territory Archives Service.
This guide was produced to commemorate the centenary of the acquisition of the Northern Territory by the Commonwealth Government in 1911. The Territory was administered by the Commonwealth until 1978, when it was granted self-government.