A colourful program for the Postmaster-General's Ball, 1960 .

The Sepia, an iron hulled 3 mast barque ran aground on December 1898. The ship was discovered by the Underwater Explorer's Club of Western Australia in 1960.

By the 1960s the Immigration Department’s publicity campaign to attract migrants to Australia was in full swing.

Robert Verhagen's paternal grandparents and seven of their 12 children migrated to Australia from the Netherlands in 1960.

In 1960, Vassiliki Daflou became an ambassador for an Australian government campaign to encourage Greek women to migrate to Australia.

This is a colour photograph depicting young children diving off a special apparatus at Manly, New South Wales in 1960.

Information sent to Commonwealth Migration Officers in November 1960 about the establishment of an index of non-Europeans entering and residing in Australia.

A 32-page document written by the University of Melbourne's Immigration Reform Group in 1960 promoted migration reform. It was revised and reprinted in 1962.

National Archives of Australia has collected the official and private records (personal records) collections of significant individuals who served within, or were closely associated with the Commonwealth government since the early 1960s.

Iconic TV puppet Mr Squiggle, the ‘man from the Moon’, delighted generations of Australian children.

Alfred Bayliss was selected as Australia’s 25,000th post-war Maltese migrant.

Records relating to child migrants to New South Wales - including migrant selection documents, passenger lists and immigration policy files.

Meals on Wheels, volunteers and the Australian Government.

When was the last time you saw a horror movie? For 20 years, the only on-screen horror Australian audiences faced was ... censorship. Spooky!

More than 10,000 images from the Immigration Photographic Archive have been digitised and can be accessed through PhotoSearch.

Our history shows that today's data becomes tomorrow's cultural heritage.

In 1911, Marion Mahony Griffin and her husband Walter Burley Griffin imagined the Australian capital during a cold Chicago winter.

The town of Wittenoom was built on the dream of a natural resource worth more than gold: blue asbestos.

The National Archives has more than 600 surveillance and training films created or collected by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).

This fact sheet provides information on National Archives records about coastal fortifications in New South Wales.