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Reserve Bank of Australia Archives
Watercolour sketch of the Board Room in the new Reserve Bank head office, c.1964Reserve Bank Board meeting held in Brisbane, 8 May 1974Board Room, head office, Sydney, 1969Reserve Bank Board meeting, head office, Sydney, 1988Staff at work in Adelaide, c.1960sStaff at work in the Exchange Control Department records room, May 1971Staff in the head office cafeteria, May 1971

Welcome to Unreserved

Unreserved is the online platform to access the Reserve Bank of Australia Archives. Unreserved allows you to directly access digitised copies of selected archival records as well as information about our entire archival collection.

The Reserve Bank is custodian of a rich and varied archive of records that spans nearly 200 years of Australia’s economic, financial and social history – from the convict era through to more recent times. This is because the Reserve Bank descended from the original Commonwealth Bank of Australia which had a central banking function and had absorbed other banks with a colonial history.

In addition to directly searching the Archives, there are Research and Series Guides for each Collection. Not all items in our Archives have yet been digitised. As our digitisation program progresses, new content will be uploaded to Unreserved and some will be showcased in Explore our Records. You can subscribe to receive updates.

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