The Coal Point Progress Association has a significant collection of local
documents that tell a tale. The Association recently received a document from
the Federal Member Greg Combet, Preserving Australia’s Documentary Heritage,
A Starter Kit for community groups. The introduction states “Community
organisations play a major role in making Australia such a vibrant and diverse
place to live. There are over 700,000 community organisations in Australia and
over 65% of Australians belong to one or more of them. For that reason archival
records of community groups represent a very significant part of Australia’s
documentary heritage.
Part of this heritage is comprised of records your organisation creates in the daily
course of its business…Such records document the activities and decisions of
your organisation, tell the stories of your community and are usually
unpublished. This means you are likely to hold the only copies of those
documents, and if they are lost or damaged over time, the history of your
community and its contribution to Australian society may also be lost.”
Are you interested in archiving the Progress Association’s records? You can look
over The Starter Kit on the National Library’s website at
www.nla.gov.au/services/comgroups.html. or contact Suzanne through the
CPPA, come along to Monday’s meeting, 12th October at Progress Hall, 197 Skye Point Rd, or catch up at the film night and we’ll see how it goes from there.
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