Summary

2. Summary

This is the ‘shop window’ of the nomination (see examples below).

It is a brief summary describing the documentary heritage and the main arguments in support of its nomination. Many people will consider this nomination as it is assessed for inscription on the Australian Memory of the World Register, and possibly its consideration for nomination by Australia to the UNESCO International Memory of the World Register.

It is important to summarise the essential information so that a number of people can quickly understand it. Please keep your summary to 100 words, or less.

Examples

This is the original document, in Cook's handwriting, of his first exploration voyage in the Pacific on HMS Endeavour in 1768-71. The first European charting of the east coast of Australia and the first circumnavigation of New Zealand took place on the voyage. This is the key document which foreshadows British colonisation of Australia (which actually began in 1788) and presaged the tragic consequences for Australia's Indigenous peoples 'the oldest surviving culture on Earth' who, under British law, were effectively deemed not to exist (the 'terra nullius' doctrine). [001/2001: The Endeavour Journal of James Cook].

This is a collection of documents charting the evolution of Australia as one of the world's most stable and long-lived democracies, an internationally viewed model of democratic experimentation, and the first country in the world to be created through the free vote of its people. The federated Commonwealth of Australia came into existence on the first day of the 20th century - 1 January 1901 - and the ceremonies were filmed : it was also the first country to be born in front of a movie camera, and with the intent of deliberately creating an archival film record (the surviving film footage shows the actual moment of the country's creation). [003/2001: Landmark Constitutional Documents of the Commonwealth of Australia].