Ever since the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Jewish people have been a small but significant group in Australian life.

More than 100 000 people, many of them migrants from over 30 countries, worked to build the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, an extraordinary engineering and construction accomplishment.

We can help you access a range of fascinating digital records to bring Australian history to life. Find out more about all of our services.

Data collection is the process of gathering information from users. Your agency should obtain information from users in the required digital form.

The main purpose of the National Archives of Australia‘s descriptive work is to facilitate public access to the archival records it holds.

The Digital Transformation Agency's Policy for the responsible use of AI in government sets out the Australian Government approach to embrace the opportunities of AI and provide for safe and responsible use of AI.

Advice to agencies for retaining information on COVID-19 vaccination status.

The loss of HMAS Sydney almost without trace in November 1941, following an encounter with the German raider Kormoran off the Western Australian coast, remains one of the most intriguing mysteries of Australia's wartime history.

The ship and its entire company of 645 were lost.

The term 'magnetic media' is used to describe any record format where information is recorded to and retrieved from a coated matrix that can be magnetised.

The National Archives of Australia has responded to recommendations in the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse by issuing a new Records Authority that requires Australian Government agencies to retain records relating to child sexual abuse incidents and allegations for at least 45 years.

The National Archives of Australia welcomes the report on ‘Government Accountability in the Digital Age’, prepared by Dr Vivienne Thom AM.

Government agencies are documenting activities relating to their business functions and administrative responsibilities in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

The National Archives holds records of Australian servicemen and women from the First World War.

Find out about sentencing and appraisal of records.

GRA - Transfer of custody and ownership of Personal Security Files (PSFs) - 2008/00174731 - issued 2018

Letters of reference in Second World War service records offer a glimpse into enlistees' pre-war lives.

This policy sets out the conditions and arrangements under which Commonwealth archival records may be held by institutions other than the Archives.

Tidal records held by the National Archives could help us track environmental change over the past two centuries.

The way you store your information affects how easily information can be found, used and managed over time.

Imagine losing forever all video footage of your children growing up. As a nation, Australia faces an equally unthinkable prospect. A substantial component of our 20th-century audiovisual cultural heritage – documenting our growth as a nation – will disappear by 2025 due to deterioration of the magnetic tape on which it is stored.