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Additional pages, easier searching and more records – our update on Western Australia
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.
Two of the Find & Connect Team were this year recognised for their work in the Australian Society of Archivists Mander Jones Awards.
A toolkit to achieve better records access for Care Leavers.
Archives are opening up again. If you plan on visiting, here are some things you should know.
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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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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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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In 2017, the University of Melbourne Archives (UMA) undertook a comprehensive program to improve access to records related to Care Leavers. This is how those records became more accessible.
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