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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”.
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The 2003 Cabinet papers, released today by the National Archives of Australia, reveal the machinations over Australia’s entry into the Iraq war.
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Years of cost-cutting measures have left Australia’s national galleries, libraries, archives and museums in dire straits.
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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.
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There is not a single historian, publisher or archivist on the review panels whose feedback will help shape Australia’s new cultural policy
Lord Mountbatten, Ghandi and Lady Mountbatten in New Delhi in 1947.
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An immense trove of the most important royal historical material for decades has just quietly been made public in the United Kingdom.