New papers released by the National Archives of Australia reveal how the decision was made for Australia to join the US’s “coalition of the willing”.
The 2003 Cabinet papers, released today by the National Archives of Australia, reveal the machinations over Australia’s entry into the Iraq war.
Years of cost-cutting measures have left Australia’s national galleries, libraries, archives and museums in dire straits.
This year’s release, from the cabinet records of 2002, is framed by two events of the previous year: the Tampa affair and 9/11.
There is not a single historian, publisher or archivist on the review panels whose feedback will help shape Australia’s new cultural policy
An immense trove of the most important royal historical material for decades has just quietly been made public in the United Kingdom.