Elections

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Series 7

Content Summary:

In his long parliamentary career Bryant was an active campaigner in elections at Federal, State and local levels. Included in this series are papers relating to his unsuccessful campaign for the State seat of Deakin in 1954, as well as material concerning his election to the Federal Seat of Wills in the following year. Bryant contested and held Wills in a further nine elections until his retirement in 1980, the only member of the Whitlam Ministry to retain his seat after the election of December 1975. Also filed in this series are election results, ALP campaign literature and posters, voting forms and electorate briefs spanning the length of his period in parliament.

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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