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Conference Paper

Author
Southern, Wendy
Title
Dealing with Commonwealth Science and Technology Records
In
Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992
Editors
Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton
Imprint
Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1995, pp. 61-70
Url
https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/southern.htm
Subject
History of Australian Science - General
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The Australian Archives (AA) was established by the Archives Act in 1983 as part of the Government's administrative law reform package. Under the terms of the Act, we are the organisation responsible for the broad management of the whole body of Commonwealth records. Our primary objective is to ensure that records are readily available to meet the proper interests of Government, Commonwealth agencies and the public.

Part of our mandate, of course, concerns the records of Commonwealth science and technology activities. In Australia, the majority of science and technology research is sponsored by the Commonwealth government, a proportion of which is directly undertaken by Commonwealth agencies. These agencies include fairly high-profile organisations such as the CSIRO and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, but also a myriad less well known agencies such as the National Resource Information Centre, part of the Department of Primary Industries and Energy and the Alligator Rivers Region Research Institute, which is in the Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories.

All of these agencies produce Commonwealth records and, whether they are aware of it or not, are subject to the provisions of the Archives Act. Under the terms of the Act, all Commonwealth agencies have a responsibility towards their records. That responsibility includes not disposing of any records without our permission; assisting the Archives to decide on the disposal status of their records (i.e. how long they should be kept); and, following that decision, destroying valueless records as soon as possible and transferring those with long term temporary or permanent value to the Archives when they are no longer needed.

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Carlson 1996

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  • Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Sherratt, Tim; Jooste, Lisa; Clayton, Rosanne (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), 124 pp, https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/contents.htm. Details

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