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Section 33(1)(a) of the Archives Act 1983

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A6122 1081 Communist Party of Australia - illegal apparatus (illegal publications) 1949 - 1956
A10872 100/1/1 PART 2 Australian Service : Charter and Functions, Part 2 [Australian Secret Intelligence Service, ASIS] 1957 - 1964
A6122 482 Communist Party of Australia - Unemployed Relief Committee Western Australia 1949 - 1949
A1838 3006/4/3 PART 22 Indonesia - Relations with Portuguese Timor 1976 - 1977
AWM54 179/1/23 PART 7 [Chemical Warfare - General:] 42nd Chemical Laboratory Company: Technical Reports [Part 7 of 9] 1943 - 1943
A6122 1222 Catholic Action Part 2 (File is non-sequential with part 1) 1949 - 1960
A6122 850 Communist Party of Australia - South Australia - Waterfront Branch 1949 - 1957
A2539 B1972/7 Report of the Australian Delegation to the Fourth Session of the United Nations Enlarged Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Seabed - Geneva 17 July - 21 August 1972 1972 - 1972
A1838 TS694/2/3/4 PART 1 [Modified title: Exchange of information] 1967 - 1968
A6122 453 CP of A [Communist Party of Australia] Cultural Activity SA [South Australia] 1949 - 1949
A12384 K/2/10 ATTACHMENT West Germany - Intelligence and Security Services 1975 - 1975
A1838 TS100/2/2 [Title exempt] 1954 - 1983
A1838 3027/10/6 PART 2 Malaysia - Australia relations - Australian representation 1969 - 1978
A816 19/310/167 Soviet and satellite war potential 1953-1956 1953 - 1953
D1915 SA1723 GOODE Mrs AK - delegate to Geneva conference 1927 - 1927
A6119 1155 BACON, Kathleen Mary ( aka Olive nee CALLAGHAN ) Volume 3 1962 - 1970
AWM193 159 PART 2 [Eastern Command "G" Branch records:] Guarding of bridges, telephone exchanges, etc; Visual training in the AMF; Order of battle AMF; Aircraft recognition; etc [file G106] 1941 - 1943
AWM54 179/5/8 PART 13 [Chemical Warfare - Trials:] Munitions Supply Laboratories. Abstract reports indexed in records of Chemical Defence Board [Part 13 of 23] 1945 - 1945
AWM54 179/5/14 PART 25 [Chemical Warfare - Trials:] Dugway Proving Grounds. Mobile Chemical Warfare Section Unit, 1945-1946 1945 - 1946
PP302/1 WA30198 PART 4 Protective Forces Handbook, number 126, 127, 128 and 129 of January 1954 prepared for use by police involved in the 1954 Royal visit to Western Australia. 1954 - 1954