Historical Documents Online Australian Constitution - text of the Constitution of Australia. Constitutional Convention - contains the final transcript of the Constitutional Convention held at Old Parliament House, Canberra 2 February to 13 February 1998, which debated the issue of whether Australia should become a republic. The original Constitutional Convention website has been preserved in the National Library's Pandora Archive. A listing of other parliamentary sources is located in the Australian Parliamentary Records Readers Guides, Parliamentary Papers and Debates, Bills, Journals etc. The following is a very select list of Australian institutions holding significant collections of Australian historical documents.
Sites provide information about the collecting institutions and their policies.
Access to collection catalogues is also often available although generally not to the documents themselves. National Archives of Australia - holder of records of Commonwealth government agencies and significant individuals within the government. Also provides access to information about archives around Australia, including Commonwealth, State, Territory and others. Australian War Memorial - unique collection of material commemorating and recording the Australian experience of war. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Historical Documents Branch - source of information from and about the records of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and its predecessors.