Other policy areas, 1919-1938

Component identifier:

Subseries 32-2

Content Summary:

This subseries consists of letters, notes, speeches, newscuttings and printed material on the following subjects: broadcasting and the ABC Bill, 1932; Commonwealth Steamship Line; conciliation and arbitration; the Depression and the economy including Sir Otto Niemeyer's report; Federal/State relations; immigration; government and politics; wireless installation on small ships and the Navigation Bill (1935); New States Movement and the Royal Commission; northern development; power alcohol; referenda, 1919-1932; sugar; trade and tariffs and the Ottawa Agreement and the Welsh National Temple of Peace and Health.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The W. M. Hughes Papers were presented to the National Library of Australia by Dame Mary Hughes in 1953. The collection was received in two consignments. One consisted of papers taken from the Perpetual Trustee Company comprising material from Hughes' Lindfield home and from his office rooms at the Commonwealth Offices, Sydney; the other came directly from Lindfield. Lists of the contents of both consignments are held in the Library's Manuscript Branch. With the agreement of the executors and the Library, much of the collection, was for a time, held at the Australian National University by Fitzhardinge. He was permitted sole access to the collection while writing the biography Hughes commissioned in 1951. Fitzhardinge's own papers documenting the writing of the biography are also held by the Library (MS 5400). The papers transferred to the Library in 1953 are by no means the total collection of Hughes' personal papers, although it is impossible to say what proportion has survived. (see Fitzhardinge, p.936).

Names:

Hughes, W. M. (1862-1952)

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