The Real Face of White Australia

Finding ways to expose, use, and share records relating to the administration of the White Australia Policy held by the National Archives of Australia.

Recent updates

• Landscapes in the archives, 27 Sep 2016

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Sites

• The Real Face of White Australia – crowdsourced transcription of White Australia Policy records
• Exploring Digital Heritage 2017 – class blog documenting the development and promotion of the transcription site
• Invisible Australians
• Invisible Australians digitised files browser

Media

• @InvisibleAus twitter account – includes bot-generated stories from transcribed data
• The Real Face of White Australia Facebook page
• White Australia Policy: Documents reveal personal stories of life under Immigration Restriction Act, ABC News, 4 September 2017
• The Scout Report, volume 23, number 41

Presentations and papers

• “The badge of the outsider”: Open access and closed boundaries

Code

• realface-scribe

Data

• realface-data repository on GitHub – CSVs and images from transcribed data