NAA Access Chronology
Closed Access · 06 June 2016
- 1942
- War Archives Committee
- 1946
- Commonwealth Archives Committee
- 1955
- CAC Report on and Recommendations for Granting of Access to Commonwealth Archives for Non-Official Research Purposes
- 23 March 1961
- Commonwealth Archives Office (date the National Library Act came into operation)
- 1964
- Interdepartmental Committee – recommended 50 years
- 1966
- Cabinet discussion – agreed to 50 years. Also ‘Open access’ prior to 1923 and ‘Qualified access’ to 1939.
- 1970
- Cabinet – changed to 30 years (cabinet record 50), plus ‘qualified access’ to WWII records
- 1972
- Cabinet – War Cabinet & other WWII records to be released.
