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1. The views expressed in this paper are the personal views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of his employer.
2. Lara Wilson, ‘The Canadian Archival System Today: An Analysis’, 2013, available at <http://archivists.ca/sites/default/files/Attachments/Advocacy_attachments/larawilsonsummit.pdf>, accessed January 2014.
3. Canadian Archival System Taskforce, Interim Report, June 2013, available at <http://archivists.ca/sites/default/files/Attachments/About_Us_attachments/Governance/cast_interim_report_final.pdf>, accessed January 2014.
4. W Kaye Lamb, Development of the National Archives: Report, AGPS, Canberra, September 1973, available at <http://www.naa.gov.au/Images/Lamb_Report_tcm16-49445.pdf>, accessed January 2014. See also ‘A National Archives System’, Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 5, no. 5, November 1973, pp. 104–9; Michael Saclier, ‘The Lamb Report and Its Environment’, Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 5, no. 8, August 1974, pp. 200–14; and Bob Sharman, ‘Australian Archives in Lamb’s Clothing’, Archivaria, no. 2, Summer 1976, pp. 20–32.
5. Professor Sue McKemmish of Monash University posed the question to David Fricker, observing that Australia does not have a national archives, but rather a national government archives.
6. Baiba Berzins, ‘The Australian Council of Archives’, Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 20, no. 1, May 1992, pp. 51–6.
7. Michael Piggott, ‘The Australian Archival System, 1971–2008: A Valedictory Appraisal’, Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 36, no. 2, November 2008, pp. 189–208.
8. ibid., p. 191.
9. ibid., p. 201.
10. Sue McKemmish and Michael Piggott, ‘Toward the Archival Multiverse: Challenging the Binary Opposition of the Personal and Corporate Archive in Modern Archival Theory and Practice’, Archivaria, no. 76, Fall 2013, pp. 111–44.
11. Piggott, p. 202.
12. Adrian Cunningham, ‘From Here to Eternity: Collecting Archives and the Need for a National Documentation Strategy’, LASIE, vol. 21, no. 1, March 1998, pp. 32–45. The original ASA Conference version of this paper can be found at <http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=753951008958185;res=IELHSS>, accessed January 2014.
13. See the ‘Archival Profession’ page on the Australian Society of Archivists’ website, available at <http://www.archivists.org.au/about-us/archival-profession>, accessed 19 June 2014.
14. The work of the National Library of Australia’s Community Heritage Grants Scheme, which has operated since the early-1990s, in supporting grassroots collecting and preservation activity should be acknowledged here – Australia’s nearest equivalent to the Canadian National Archival Development Program. See <http://www.nla.gov.au/awards-and-grants/chg>, accessed January 2014.
15. See <http://www.archivists.org.au/icms_docs/112149_Appraisal_Statement.pdf>, accessed January 2014.
16. See <http://www.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/>, accessed January 2014.
17. See <http://cmc.arts.gov.au/working_groups/past_working_groups/archives/archives_working_group>, accessed January 2014.
18. Report on the National Scholarly Communications Forum Round Table on Archives, available at <http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/asa/aus-archivists/msg03483.html>, accessed January 2014.
19. Colleen McEwen, ‘National Online Archival Network Summit’, Australian Society of Archivists Bulletin, December 2002, pp. 16–19.
20. Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities, ‘Digital Archiving in the 21st Century: Archives Domain Discussion Paper’, September 2006, available at <http://www.caara.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DigitalArchiving21C.pdf>, accessed January 2014.
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Adrian Cunningham
Adrian Cunningham is the Director of Digital Archives & Government Recordkeeping at Queensland State Archives, where he has worked since 2011. Before that he worked at the National Archives of Australia (NAA) from 1998 to 2011, where he held a variety of positions including oversight of the NAA’s collaborations with government, industry, professional and international partners – most particularly on matters associated with digital recordkeeping and other modern recordkeeping initiatives. Adrian was Secretary of the International Council on Archives (ICA) Committee on Descriptive Standards (2002–2004), and was Treasurer of the Pacific Regional Branch of the ICA (2003–2011) and Convenor of the Australian Society of Archivists Descriptive Standards Committee. Before joining the NAA he worked for many years as a private records archivist/librarian at the National Library of Australia, the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau and the State Library of New South Wales. Adrian was President of the Australian Society of Archivists (1998–2000) and was inducted as a Fellow of the Society in 2007. He was awarded the Emmett Leahy Award for contributions to records management in September 2010.