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A4854 VOL 30 Signed minutes of meetings of the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council - Volume 30 - 19 Jan 1970 to 22 Jun 1970 22 Apr 1968 - 22 Jun 1970
A6119 149 HEALY, James Volume 1 1949 - 1950
A1838 TS656/3/9 Special Intelligence - Joint Intelligence Committee - Six monthly review 1955 - 1956
F504 1 Commonwealth Census 1933 (Instructions and Correspondence) Attachments: 1) Census of the Commonwealth of Australia 4th April 1921 Census bulletin No 7 2) An Act to amend the Census and Statistics Act No33 of 1920 3) An Act relating to the Census and Stat6istics of the Commonwealth No15 of 1905 1932 - 1933
A2618 DOCUMENT 3606/8 Report on Geology of Upper Tumut Development Volume 7 Additional information to that contained in Volumes 1 to 6 01 Jan 1963 - 01 Jan 1972
AWM54 244/2/13 [Demolitions - Schemes:] Demolition Plans: Brisbane Fortress Area, Belt "H" 1939 - 1945
A10872 100/1/2 Australian Service Directive (Interim Directive 1957 and Revision) - [Australian Secret Intelligence Service, ASIS] 1957 - 1963
A6119 414 Annie Margaret McARTHUR 1948 - 1959
A1209 1961/190 Proposal for meeting of officials prior to Prime Ministers' conference 1961 1961 - 1961
A1838 TS696/2/2 PART 5 Regional Defence - Indonesia - Australian strategic interest 1957 - 1958
A6122 918 CPA (WA) [Communist Party of Australia, Western Australia)] Finance 1949 - 1956
A6122 614 Communist Party of Australia - Branches Victoria - Bendigo branch 1952 - 1954
A12389 F13 PART 1 Submission by Department of Foreign Affairs to Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security re [portion of title exempt] 1975 - 1975
A816 11/301/664 JIC papers - exchange of information 1949 - 1949
J3152 E1008/25 Checklist - Original copies of drawings, single number series [CA8312 Works Australia, State Office, Northern Territory] 1938 - 1996
A6122 823 Communist Party of Australia - Saint Vincents Hospital Building branch 1949 - 1958
AWM54 179/3/3 PART 3 [Chemical Warfare - Types of Agents:] Canada, Sub-Committee on Physiological Aspects of Chemical Warfare, Oct 1943 - Report on Iron and Chloride content of the Respiratory Tract 1943 - 1943
AWM54 244/2/9 [Demolitions - Schemes:] Demolition Plans: Brisbane Fortress Area, Belt "G" 1939 - 1945
A1209 1960/802 SEATO - Report of the Communications Committee. Fourth meeting, June, 1960. 1960 - 1960
A6119 1582 KING, Trevor Ronald [5 pages - all of these contain exemptions] 1963 - 1963