1970-71

Containers:

Box 105

Component identifier:

File [unnumbered]

Content Summary:

Includes 'Education 1970', 'The Australian troops in Vietnam - Vietnam is big enough to look after itself' (1970), 'Prescribing the limits of nationalism' (National Anti-War Conference, 1971) (1971), 'National service' (1970), 'The war in Vietnam' (1972), TDT, talk on the PSA interview (taped in office, 1973), address on National Aborigines Day (1973), Armistice Day 1975 'What else could the Governor-General have done?', 'Treatment or punishment' (Public seminar on the Future of Corrective Services in the ACT, Bryant as Minister for the ACT, 1975), 'The back-bencher and his role in Government' (1976), letter to Governor-General Kerr plus 'The Yarralumla Coup D'état' (speaker's notes, 1976), Anzac Day ceremonies (1977-80), Speech to Labor Women's Conference (1978), Speech on May Day at Mount Isa (1978), transcripts of visit to Rhodesia as observer for Rhodesian elections (1979), interview with David Goss with reference to the UN (1979), 'Ted Peters - an appreciation' (1980), 'The Olympic Games' (1980), 'Can Australia be Independent' (1984), recorded reminiscences (1985), defence statement (n.d.), 'Aboriginal society under Labor' (n.d.)

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Bryant Papers were received in two consignments. The first was transferred from the Victorian Regional Office of the National Archives of Australia in November 1991, in accordance with Mrs Bryant's wishes. These papers had been deposited there in 1975. Just over half of them had been assigned the control number MP1803/1. The remainder had been registered into 31 individual record series and held under Commonwealth Record Series control numbers. Further papers at Mrs Bryant's home (in a garage) had been put into cartons by NAA staff in 1991 and brought to the National Archives of Australia on a temporary basis. At the time of transfer to the National Library, NAA staff retained series or parts of series which related to periods when Gordon Bryant was Minister, as well as diaries from 1973 to 1975 and one notebook. In 1992, papers relating to Bryant's post-parliamentary activities were transferred direct from Mrs Bryant's home to the Library. Amongst these cartons was material which had been packed from his office at La Trobe University's School of Economics and Commerce and returned to Mrs Bryant.

Names:

Bryant, Pat, Mrs.

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