International Organisations and the United Nations

Component identifier:

Series 15

Content Summary:

Bryant represented the Australian Parliament on a number of overseas delegations and at Parliamentary conferences. Documented in this series is Bryant's membership of the official Parliamentary Delegations to South-East Asia in 1970 and New Caledonia and Zimbabwe in 1979. He was a participant in the Australian Delegation to the 33rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 1978-79, as well as Leader of the Parliamentary Delegation to Europe in 1975. Bryant was nominated Parliamentary Observer to South Pacific Commission Conferences in 1969 and 1977.

A life member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Bryant attended four Commonwealth Parliamentary Conferences between 1966 and 1980. He also maintained an active interest in international political organisations such as the World Council of Parliament Association, the Movement for Political World Union, Parliamentarians for World Order and the World Federalists, for which related correspondence and circulars are filed in this series.

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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