<div dir="ltr">For those whose research relies on access to items at National Archives of Australia (NAA):<div><br></div><div>It can take two years or more for a request for access to a Timor-related file at NAA to be completed - and most often some documents in any given folder will be excluded or partially redacted. So you'd hope the restrictions were fully justifiable under Archives Act rules.</div><div><br></div><div>Evidence in a new article on the CHART / Timor Archives website suggests the NAA restrictions on access decisions may not be as robust as they should be. See:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://timorarchives.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/naa-redactions-questions/">https://timorarchives.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/naa-redactions-questions/</a><br><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div>John Waddingham<br>Archivist / Manager<br>Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor Inc.<br><br><a href="http://timorarchives.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://timorarchives.wordpress.com/</a><br><div><div><br></div><div>Donations over $2 to CHART are tax deductible.</div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div></div></div></div>
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