Australian Labor Party

Component identifier:

Series 8

Content Summary:

A member of the Australian Labor Party for almost 40 years, Bryant was active in a variety of areas of the Party hierarchy, as a local and State branch official, conference delegate, member of the Federal Caucus and Minister during the Whitlam Government. He served on numerous Party committees, including the Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee of which he was Chairman, and was Secretary of the Education Committee for 14 years until 1972.

In this series are filed Federal and State Party rules, Caucus minutes, committee papers and conference notes, as well as papers relating to the Labour Party (Great Britain) and the Victorian Fabian Society. Also documented is Bryant's participation in the ALP at a local level, through his involvement in the Wills Federal Electorate Assembly and the Brunswick, Coburg, Greensborough and Viewbank-Yallambie Branches, of which he was at various times a member.

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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