A recent guide to Aboriginal people in the Australian Archives
has been published. Price $20. This is in keeping with one of
the recommendations of the report of the Royal Commission into
Deaths in Custody - to allow First Peoples easier access to
records. I understand that an errata sheet for the index will
be necessary.
The guide is to 1962. Records have to be 30 years old before
they are made public
The blurb is as follows:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Commonwealth
Records.
A Guide to Records in the Australian Archives, ACT Regional
Office
Complied by Ros Fraser
This guide provides a way in to the large quantity of records
held by the Australian Archives, ACT Regional Office, which
relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. the
records date from the 1860s to the early 1960s' and relate to
all parts of Australia but especially to the Northern
Territory which the Commonwealth administered from 1911.
Published in the International Year for the World's Indigenous
People, this guide is a response to a recommendation of the
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody that
government archives make records About Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people more accessible.
By providing information about the government departments,
offices and royal commissions which created these records and
by listing over 3,000 files and photographs, the guide will
allow further research into and re-evaluation of many issues,
policies and events involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people. The guide also includes information about
records which document the dealings which many Aboriginal
people had with the Commonwealth government and may provide
vital genealogical information about Aboriginal people and
their families.
The guide includes a 140-page index to people, places and
subjects mentioned in the records. It is an invaluable
resources for all those interested in twentieth-century
Aboriginal history.
To order your copy, please complete the mail order form and
send to:
Australian Archives PO Box 7047
Canberra Mail centre ACT 2610
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Mail order form
Please forward a copy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
People in Commonwealth records: A Guide to records in the
Australian Archives, ACT regional Office compiled by Ros
Fraser.
Name......................................................
Address.................................Postcode..........
[ ] I enclose a cheque (made payable to collector of Public
Moneys, Australian Archives) for $20.00, or
[ ] Please charge my Bankcard/ Visa/ Mastercard (circle one)
Card number.................................Expiry date.......
Signature...................................date.............
Copies are also available from regional offices of the
Australian Archives, listed below.
ACT
Cnr Sandford St and Flemmington Road
Mitchell ACT 2911
Tel: (06) 209 9411
New South Wales
Level 17
477 Pitt Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Tel: (02) 201 3100
Victoria
Casselden Place
2 Lonsdale St
Melbourne VIC 3000
Tel: (03) 285 7999
Queensland
11th Floor
Santos House
215 Adelaide street
Brisbane Qld 4000
Tel: (07) 233 7850
Townsville Office
30 Casey Street
Aithkenvale Qld 4814
Tel: (077) 753788
South Australia
11-13 Derlanger Avenue
Collingswood SA 5080
Tel: (08) 269-0100
Western Australia
384 Berwick Street
East Victoria Park WA 6101
Tel: (09) 470 7500
Tasmania
4 Rosny Hill Road
Rosny Park Tas 7018
Tel: (002) 44 0111
Northern Territory
Kelsey Crescent
Nightcliff NT 0801
Tel: (089) 85 2222