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One more week to apply for a RAD Grant!

  • October 15, 2018
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There’s only one more week to apply for a RAD Grant.
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Helping care leavers find and connect to their past

  • September 24, 2018
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After becoming the first outside North America to receive a SAA award, we’ve been featured in a Pursuit story that details what we do, and why & how we do it.
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New Round of RAD Grants

  • September 7, 2018
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Record-holding organisations are encouraged to apply for funding in the new round of RAD grants to improve access to records for people who spent time in “care” between 1920 and 1989.
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Building trust on both sides

  • August 15, 2018
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This week, we’re receiving the Hamer-Keegan Award and speaking at the Society of American Archivists Conference about what we do, how we do it, and how we’re sharing our work in building trust and transparency into archival practice.
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Do you recognise these photos?

  • July 27, 2018
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We need your help! If you know about the institutions in these photos, please let us know so we can update Find & Connect
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Last Chance!!! Site Survey

  • July 12, 2018
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This is your last chance to complete the 10 minute site survey! What are you waiting for?!
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It’s bye to blogJune

  • June 30, 2018
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We’re at the end of blogJune! Find links to all our stories, let us know what you’ve liked (or didn’t like) & if you haven’t yet, get cracking on the site survey
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Reblog – That’s what happened to me

  • June 29, 2018
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“Following reports that every child in detention in the NT is Aboriginal, this is a reblog of a piece first published 2 years ago, after Four Corners first aired its investigation into Don Dale”
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The MIRRA Project: Memory – Identity – Rights in Records – Access

  • June 28, 2018
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“I don’t need to make the case for the value of these records or the importance of good recordkeeping, or explain the devastating impact of poor practice on people’s lives. The work that has been done in Australia in advocating for improved systems and culture of access, and for the rights of care experienced people to their histories and identities, has been both a model and an inspiration…”
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Child Endowment records in Canberra

  • June 27, 2018
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This blog post is to share some good news about newly-available records at the National Archives of Australia (NAA) in Canberra. The records relate to the payment of child endowment to children’s institutions by the Commonwealth government.
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