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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  Mick Rangiari and Vincent Lingiari asserting their right to Aboriginal lands, Gurindji

  A black-and-white photograph of Mick Rangiari and Vincent Lingiari at Gurindji Mining Lease and Cattle Station

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  Outline of Australian government's strategy to stop the Franklin Dam

  This is a cabinet minute from 1983, outlining the Commonwealth's strategy to stop the Franklin Dam in Tasmania.

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  Petition for equal voting rights for both sexes

  This is a one-page handwritten petition from the executive of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Australasia.

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  Portrait of politician and women's rights activist, Enid Lyons

  A black-and-white photographic portrait of Dame Enid Lyons in the year her husband, Prime Minister Joseph Lyons, died. It was taken when she was 42 years old.

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  Portrait of tennis player Evonne Goolagong

  This is a colour photograph of Evonne Goolagong Cawley at the age of 21.

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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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  Portrait of Wiradjuri elder John Noble with his dog

  Wiradjuri man, John Noble, aka 'Marvellous', and his dog under a tree at the Bachelors Quarters in the Canberra suburb of Acton sometime in early 1926.

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  Promoting migration reform - pamphlet 'Control or Colour Bar?'

  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.

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  Protest against bicentennial celebrations

  Aboriginal protest in Hobart against the Bicentennial celebrations.