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He took flying lessons at the Spencer Gulf Aero Club and sent an application to enlist in the RAAF when he was aged just 16. [2] He applied again after his 18th birthday and was accepted on the 1st of September 1939. Australia declared war on the 3rd of September 1939 and the following day Plenty arrived at RAAF Base Point Cook for
The National Archives of Australia (NAA), formerly known as the Commonwealth Archives Office and Australian Archives, is an Australian Government agency that is the official repository for all federal government documents. It collects, preserves and provides public access to these documents, as well as other archival material related to ...
The Historical Records of Australia comprise three series of volumes. Within a series, each separate volume is roughly 900 pages in length. Series I comprises 26 volumes. It was published during 1914-1925. It contains despatches of the Governors, who were in charge of the Crown colonies in Australia, to and from the authorities in England ...
The AGLS Metadata Standard, originally known as the Australian Government Locator Service, was created by the National Archives of Australia as a standard to describe government resources. [1] It was published for a general audience by Standards Australia as AS 5044:2002, and reissued as AS 5044-2010 on 30 June 2010. [2]
The 1972 Larrakia Petition, sent by the Larrakia people, who are the traditional owners of the Darwin region in the Northern Territory, to Elizabeth II was a landmark document in the land rights movement in Australia.
Xena is a Java application that was developed by the National Archives of Australia. It is available free of charge under the GNU General Public License. Version 6.1.0 was released 31 July 2013. Source code and binaries for Linux, OS X and Windows are available from SourceForge. However, as of 2018, it is no longer maintained or supported.
The Australian Series System is an archival control or metadata system, used primarily to describe records in the custody of archival institutions. It was developed at the Australian Archives and forms the basis for the Australian Society of Archivists' committee on descriptive standards guide ″Describing archives in context″.
It was one of twelve elementary flying training schools employed by the RAAF to provide introductory flight instruction to new pilots as part of Australia's contribution to the Empire Air Training Scheme. No. 5 EFTS was established in June 1940 at Narromine, New South Wales, and primarily operated Tiger Moths. It ceased training in June 1944 ...