Parliamentary Committees

Component identifier:

Series 10

Content Summary:

Over the course of his long political career Bryant served on many parliamentary committees. These included the House of Representatives Standing Committees on Aboriginal Affairs, 1976-77 and Environment and Conservation, 1976-77, and the House of Representatives Select Committee on Greivances of the Yirrkala Aborigines, 1963. Twice nominated to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs (later Foreign Affairs and Defence), Bryant was a member between 1970-72 and 1976-80.

Filed in this series are various minutes, correspondence, submissions to, and reports of, some of the parliamentary committees to which Bryant was elected.

Bryant's membership of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Parliamentary Library in the periods 1956-72 and 1976-80 is documented in Series 14. Papers relating to his committee work for the Australian Labor Party can be found in Series 8.

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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