The ABC web news had this posting http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-01/victorian-section-9-archives-opened-for-2016/7031026 which stated that those records give glimpse of WWII-era justice - Three large bound volumes containing the criminal records of released Victorian prisoners have also been opened. . . files were originally sent to South Australia so that police there had a record of any former inmates who may have moved across the border. The government files, kept in climate-controlled conditions by Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), have been closed until now under Section 9 of the Public Records Act 1973, which requires "personal or private" records to be withheld from public view for a period of time. . . . . is among thousands of World War II-era files opened to the public today by the Victorian archives. Their web site is http://prov.vic.gov.au/ Alan Melbourne