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AIATSIS Collection Access and Family History (CAFH) staff visited Palm Island earlier this month and set up a temporary CAFH stall in the Bwgcolman Indigenous Knowledge Centre at the Palm Island Library for Community to access.

AIATSIS encourages cultural institutions to implement the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration and decolonise their archives.

In June 2016, Reverend Dr John P Brown donated his working files from the time he was the non-Indigenous Co-Chair of the National Sorry Day Committee, to AIATSIS.

In July 2017, the Pallottines donated a collection of material to AIATSIS relating to the Mission, hostel and school that had been operating in Tardun, WA, from 1948 to 2004.

In 2016, AIATSIS acquired Kerry Reed-Gilbert's extensive collection of decorative domestic items that depict Aboriginal people or use Aboriginal motifs.

Lantern slides are a unique format that were in wide use from the 18th to mid-20th century and allowed glass photographic transparencies to be displayed using a magic lantern projector.

Kerry Reed-Gilbert is a Wiradjuri elder, poet, writer, activist, artist and photographer living in Canberra.