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...
The remains of 215 children were found last month buried in unmarked graves at a former residential school, one of more than 150 institutions in a defunct system that for well over a century...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Eileen Cummings was raised by missionaries on remote Croker Island, off the Top End's north coast, for decades unaware that her family was living just across the water. "Years later we found that if...
The Anglican Diocese of Newcastle says it has found an email which shows a police officer was told about boys' home archives, contrary to his claims. Earlier this month the detective told the ABC...
Records from a boys' home that is set to be the focus of a case study at a royal commission into child sexual abuse are being held at the University of Newcastle, it has emerged, after it was...
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
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....
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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