Prosecuting or defending a case is a vital democratic right, but one that's easily undermined by poor recordkeeping. Mother and Baby Home Commission destroys witness testimony Tusla's...
The injustice of shoddy recordkeeping
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Families kept apart by poor recordkeeping
It's not just blood that keeps families together – recordkeeping has a role to play too. Below is a collection of recordkeeping failures that have kept families separated and left people...
Setting the record straight on Indigenous justice
Gaps in the historical record have kept Indigenous people disconnected from their families, cultures, homes, and identities. The records that do remain have a pivotal role to play in the fight for...
Missing: Curtin’s wartime correspondence with Churchill
He grew up in a tiny South Australian town famous for its rodeo, but historian Robin Prior has made his career roping in the myths proliferating around Australia’s war efforts. His huge new...
Historians fear Australian stories could be lost forever
Historians fear untold Australian stories could be lost without a substantial funding increase for the National Archives to prevent the disintegration of records dating back to the mid-19th century....
Brewarrina Mission connects past and present to Indigenous culture and heritage
The organisers of an inaugural open day at one of Australia's largest former Aboriginal missions hope the event will become a national movement towards Indigenous reconciliation. ... The separation...
Cuomo denies alleged cover-up in crisis surrounding nursing home deaths
After insisting his administration had done nothing wrong last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo, on Monday, did not directly apologize for a lack of transparency surrounding the record-keeping of COVID...
Gaps in records of Trump’s presidency
There’s growing concern among historians and political analysts that missing documents will leave a hole in the record of President Donald Trump’s term, one of America’s most tumultuous...
What happens when a country loses its ‘birth certificate’? (FIJI)
Fiji has admitted losing the legal document confirming its independence from the United Kingdom. But does that threaten its existence as a state? See: bbc.com, 19 October 2010
Did Nasa Lose The Moon Tapes?
One giant loss for mankind: NASA loses moon tapes
700 boxes of space flight tapes including five original Apollo moon landings have been lost, Australian scientist John Sarkassian from the Parkes Observatory revealed in his recent report....
The Heiner Affair
In March 1990, Queensland, Australia, the State Cabinet ordered the State Archivist to shred vital public records alleging abuse of youths at the John Oxley Youth Centre in Wacol. The Heiner...
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