Access to Commonwealth historical archives by members of foreign governments
Closed Access · 15 April 2016
NAA: A463, 1956/1839
2pp only.
Concerns inquiry from Brazil about the access to archives by ‘private or official representatives of foreign countries’.
6 December 1956, Memo from KT Kelly (for Sec EA) to ‘Librarian and Archival Authority, Commonwealth National Library’.
Intending to reply that ‘in principle no person is permitted access to archives relating to external affairs created in Australia subsequently to 31 December 1902’.
