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Information Awareness Week unites industry practitioners across the globe. Notably, this event welcomes all professionals, irrespective of their association memberships, fostering a truly inclusive environment.

Events

Branch Meeting / Thursday, 04 Jun 2026
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Brisbane Students, recent graduates and new professionals! You are invited to a networking event to chat with records and archives professionals.  This evening is open to members and non-members. The more the merrier! PLEASE NOTE that this is a self funded event.  (Look out for the ASA flag on the table)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM ONLINE / PARKES Organised by the National Archives of Australia and presented by the Australian Society of Archivists, A Life in Archives: Honouring the Legacy of Dr Peter Orlovich recognises the outstanding career and contributions of Dr Peter Orlovich, a pioneering figure in Australian archival education and practice. Dr Orlovich established Australia’s first graduate training course for archivists at the University of New South Wales and made significant contributions to archival training, community archives, and local history throughout his career.
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Stonyfell Professional Development Term 2 Event at St Peter's Girls School and Archives

Archives & Manuscripts


Vol 52 No 1 (2024)
Special Issue: Research and Practice

Congratulations to the 29th Mander Jones Award Winners

Celebrating excellence in professional writing within the archival and recordkeeping profession

Published: Tuesday 11 November 2025


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We extend our congratulations to the recipients of the 29th Mander Jones Awards!

The Mander Jones Awards Ceremony was held in person on Tuesday 11 November 2025 in Warrane/Warrang, Sydney during the 2025 Conference Dinner as part of Telling Our Stories: Community, Connection, Resilience conference.

Category 1A
(Not awarded)

Category 1B - Winner
Kirsten Thorpe. Designing Indigenous-Led Archival Futures: The Application of Indigenous Research Methodologies Within Archival Research and Practice, Archives & Manuscripts Vol. 52(1) 2024, pp 29-44

Category 1B - Commendation
Kirsten Thorpe. Returning love to Ancestors captured in the archives: Indigenous wellbeing, sovereignty and archival sovereignty, Archival Science (2024) 24:125–142

Category 2A - Winner
Sandra Perrett. Loreto 150 years, Catalogue for Travelling Exhibition,

Category 2B - Winner
Judith Washington. Paradise Interrupted: Tomaree Headland Port Stephens in World War II. Tomaree Headland Heritage Group Inc., 2024.

Category 2B - Commendation
Reuben Brown. The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land. New York, Routledge, 2024.

Category 3 
(No nominations received)

Category 4
(Not awarded)

Category 5 - Winner
Kari James. The Ongoing Need for the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, International Journal of Documentary Heritage. 2024 December, Vol.1 No.1, Article 4 p.1-17.

Category 5 - Commendation
Nicholas Thieberger, Michael Aird, Clint Bracknell, Jason Gibson, Amanda Harris, Marcia Langton, Gaye Sculthorpe, Jane Simpson. The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records, Archives & Manuscripts Vol. 51(2) 2023, pp 23-42.

Category 6 - Winner
Jon Piccini. 'Thinking in Papua New Guinean Terms’: the Sensitive Files Case of 1972 and Australia’s Migrated Archive, History Workshop Journal Vol. 96 Autumn 2023, p.115-133

Category 6 - Commendation

Kirsten Thorpe, Nathan Sentance & Lauren Booker. Wikimedia Australia and first nations metadata: utilising the ATSILIRN protocols to create culturally appropriate description and access, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 2024, Vol. 30, Nos. 3–4, 201–222. 

Category 7 
(No nominations received)

Category 8
(No nominations received)

Recipient details including Judges’ comments for each award are available on our website.

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