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More Victorian Ward Records Accessible

Records about State Wards in Victoria from 1864-1923) have been made available online

Creating Records from Memory

Innovative ways to fill gaps in records are providing important details to former residents of institutions where records are missing

Western Australia Updates

Additional pages, easier searching and more records – our update on Western Australia

Caught on Film

Film taken in children’s homes and institutions provide a skewed view of life in care, but also some insights into life at the time.

Find & Connect recognised with awards

Two of the Find & Connect Team were this year recognised for their work in the Australian Society of Archivists Mander Jones Awards.

Out-of-Home Care Records Toolkit

A toolkit to achieve better records access for Care Leavers.

Reading Rooms are opening up again, with restrictions

Archives are opening up again. If you plan on visiting, here are some things you should know.

Building trust on both sides

This week, we’re receiving the Hamer-Keegan Award and speaking at the Society of American Archivists Conference about what we do, how we do it, and how we’re sharing our work in building trust and transparency into archival practice.
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Child Endowment records in Canberra

This blog post is to share some good news about newly-available records at the National Archives of Australia (NAA) in Canberra. The records relate to the payment of child endowment to children’s institutions by the Commonwealth government.
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Revisiting the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

Reading the reports from the deaths in custody Royal Commission, there are many ideas which still resonate today – about access to archival records, about the intergenerational legacy of institutionalisation, about justice.
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