33(1)(b)

contains information or matter: (i) that was communicated in confidence by, or on behalf of, a foreign government, an authority of a foreign government or an international organisation (the foreign entity) to the Government of the Commonwealth, to an authority of the Commonwealth or to a person who received the communication on behalf of the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth (the Commonwealth entity); and (ii) which the foreign entity advises the Commonwealth entity is still confidential; and (iii) the confidentiality of which it would be reasonable to maintain
Section 33(1)(b) of the Archives Act 1983

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Series Control Symbol Title Contents dates
A1209 1960/725 Title exempt 1960 - 1960
AWM54 179/5/7 PART 7 [Chemical Warfare - Trials:] Reports from Australian Field Experimental Station, Proserpine, Queensland (Aug 1945) [Part 7 of 10] 1945 - 1945
A1209 1961/1244 SEATO - Military Advisers 15th Conference - Report. 1961 - 1961
A5954 2365/2 Meeting of [a UK officer] with Defence Committee 8 April 1954 1954 - 1954
A1838 TS3006/10/4 PART 3A South East Asia intra regional relations - Malaysia/Singapore [3 pages] 1966 - 1969
A4940 C1952 Antarctic policy 1958-1960 1958 - 1960
A1838 694/2/3/4 PART 9 [Modified title: Exchange of information] 1973 - 1974
A12391 R19 Czechoslovak Intelligence: Czechoslovak Ministry of Interior: Foreign Counterintelligence 1972 - 1972
A1209 1964/6040 PART 1 Deployment of Australian troops in Malaysia 1963 - 1964
A1209 1963/6286 [Title Exempt] 1963 - 1963
AWM54 179/5/8 PART 18 [Chemical Warfare - Trials:] Munitions Supply Laboratories. Abstract reports indexed in records of Chemical Defence Board [Part 18 of 23] 1945 - 1945
A12389 BB4 The [portion of title exempt] Case - January 1975 1966 - 1975
A5954 1727/22 Gibraltar as a link in Imperial Communications - The problem of Establishing an Air Base, Oct 1936 1936 - 1936
AWM54 179/5/8 PART 15 [Chemical Warfare - Trials:] Munitions Supply Laboratories. Abstract reports indexed in records of Chemical Defence Board [Part 15 of 23] 1945 - 1945
A1838 TS663/11 Intelligence conference Melbourne, November 1958 and Washington, 1962 and London, 1966 1958 - 1967
A1838 3026/2/9/2 PART 1 Malaya - internal security 1958 - 1962
A1533 1956/3997 SHUN Chang Lan and others 1956 - 1956
A5954 2365/10 Defence Signals Branch - [remainder of title exempt] 1954 - 1954
A5799 4/1961 Theatre estimate to be used in the development of MPO plan 6/61 [and supplement no. 1] 1961 - 1961
A3411 151 South-East Asia Collective Defence Treaty. Report of Logistics Ad Hoc Sub-committee Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, August 1955 1955 - 1955