Quoting from PS News. Edition Number 541. Updated Tuesday 07 March 2017. http://www.psnews.com.au/aps/541/news/government-gazette-new-treasure-in-trove?utm_source=aps541&utm_medium=email&utm_content=news1&utm_campaign=newsletter_aps
Government Gazette new treasure in Trove
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced that the Commonwealth of Australia Government Gazette from 1901 and 1957 has been digitised and added to its online service, Trove.
A joint project between the NLA and the Office of Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) has resulted in almost 60 years of Government news being digitised and freely available online and text-searchable for the first time.
Director-General of the NLA, Marie-Louise Ayres said the Commonwealth Gazette project was a great example of Government Agencies working together to offer a valuable resource to people everywhere, regardless of where they lived.
Library opens online access
“The OPC has supplied the content from the Commonwealth Gazette whilst the NLA has digitised these valuable public records and made them machine-readable so they will live on in the future via Trove,” Dr Ayres said.
“The Gazette provides us with a rich, primary resource about our early days, from the very first issue on 1 January 1901, showing the proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia by Queen Victoria, right through to everyday life.”
She said the Gazette tracked a significant time in the nation’s history.
“Importantly, it gives us the real story of day-to-day life in early Australia — a valuable resource for students, academics, writers, family historians and anyone who wants to know what really happened back then,” Dr Ayres said.
She said the project was made possible through additional Federal Government funding to the NLA, via the 2016–17 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
The Gazette entries on Trove can be accessed at this PS News link. http://trove.nla.gov.au/gazette/result?q&l-title=1214&openFacets=true
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