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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  Banish the Budget Blues, a song from the Great Depression

  This is the front cover of the song sheet for Banish the Budget Blues by Jack Lumsdaine.

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  Cartoon of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by Michael Atchison

  A black-and-white cartoon portraying prime minister Gough Whitlam immediately after his election.

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  Children painting at nursery school

  This is a black-and-white photograph of children painting at nursery school in Australia, 1945.

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  Children's choir at an eisteddfod

  This is a black-and-white photograph that shows children singing in an eisteddfod in 1971.

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  Colombo Plan exchange students from Malaysia perform a candle dance at Eid

  Colombo Plan students from Malaysia celebrate Eid in 1959.

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  Construction workers leaving Old Parliament House

  This is a black-and-white photograph showing a crowd of workers walking from the Parliament House depot as they leave work for the day.

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  Crowds at Manly Beach

  This colour photograph, taken in 1965, shows people at Manly Beach, Sydney.

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  Crowds at the opening of the Sydney Opera House

  This colour photograph shows crowds at the opening of the Sydney Opera House.

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  Desert Dragon Comic – application for copyright registration

  This is a comic from 1946, about Dr Mensana heading off on a journey to search for fossils on the Nullabor Plain.