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Our history up in flames? Why the crisis at the National Archives must be urgently addressed

  • Written by Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, Macquarie University
Our history up in flames? Why the crisis at the National Archives must be urgently addressedBidgee (Wikimedia commons)/The Conversation, CC BY-SA

Imagine you are in a large building near Parliament House in Canberra filled with irreplaceable objects. Not jewels, medals or paintings, but a collection of letters, tapes and documents of Australian life.

The collection contains letters written to and from prime ministers, and recordings of...

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