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Quoting from http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/a-unique-gift-national-archives-hands-back-priceless-japanese-records-20170720-gxexwf.html

'A unique gift': National Archives hands back priceless Japanese records

Canberra Times, by Tom McIlroy, JU

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Quoting from http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/jan-mller-named-as-new-national-film-and-sound-archive-boss-20170704-gx4iba.html

JULY 5 2017 - 10:31AM

 

Jan Müller named as new National Film and Sound Archive boss

 

Tom McIlroy

 

The boss of the Nethe

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Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2017/s4692782.htm

ABC 7.30 report “Items possibly belonging to Breaker Morant found on country rubbish tip”

 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Broadcast: 27/06/2017

Reporter: Peter McCuthcheon

A seemi

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Exclusive: Letters, manuscripts, photographs and props have been acquired by university in Austin for $400,000

Peter O’Toole on set of the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia.
Peter O’Toole on set of the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia. Photograph: Courtesy Ha
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A Benedictine monk's mission to save the ancient manuscripts of the Islamic world

Posted yesterday at 1:09pm

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Quoting from https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/fannys-memory-world

FANNY’S MEMORY OF THE WORLD
COCHRANE SMITH ACKNOWLEDGED BY UNESCO
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BY ROD BUTLER

Image of Fanny Cochrane Smith and Horace Watson courtesy Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

On 9 February

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Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-23/didgeridoos-from-more-than-100-years-ago-restored/8145282

SA Museum, Yolngu people breathe new life into didgeridoos from 1880s

By Sarah Collard Posted 23 Dec 2016, 3:31pm

PHOTO: Yolngu Elder Djalu Gurr

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SLQ WINS THE GALLERY AND MUSEUM ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR “PEACE AND QUIET”

23 NOV 2016|LIBRARIAN

 

State Library’s Signature Program team are celebrating their win at last night’s 2016 Gallery and Museum Achievement Awards (GAMAA). The team were recognised

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Ford faithful's fight to keep Australian archive

  • By Peter Robinson
  • Sep 02, 2016

Ford Australia historical archives

FORMER Ford Australia executives have demanded the Federal Government step in to prevent the export of Ford’s local archives. Under the Moveable Heritage laws, they believe

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National Archives of Australia staff off to Cuba to restore historic documents

May 19 2016

Most travel packing includes perhaps a little sunscreen or the latest novel, but for two Canberra conservators, their luggage to Cuba will contain far more inter

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Quoting from http://www.nma.gov.au/about_us/indigenous_scholarships#bc=indigenous-scholarships

 

Indigenous scholarships program

Encounters Indigenous Cultural Workers Scholarships

The creation of the Encounters Indigenous Cultural Workers Scholarships

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Quoting from https://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/web-archiving/2016/01/29/old-ti

JOHN MORSEAU 

A TORRES STRAIT COLLECTION

 

UNPACKING THE 'OLD TI' RESEARCH GUIDE

3 FEBRUARY 2016

 As the 2015 Indigenous graduate for the Library, it is an enormous privilege and equ

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