Guide to the Papers of Garry Woodard, 1944-2014

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Summary

Collection number:: MS 10135
Creator:: Woodard, Garry, Mr
Extent:: 2.7 metres and (17 ms boxes)
Language:: English
Availability:: Available
Access conditions:: Part available for research; part not available for research until 2020. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:: Personal archive of Garry Woodard documenting his diplomatic and academic career in Australian-Asian relations (1950s-1990s), including personal and business correspondence; personal reminiscences, a memoir, notes and correspondence relating to Sir Arthur Tange; and research notes and papers recording Australian participation in the Vietnam and Iraq Wars. The material also documents major figures in Australian international relations such as HV Evatt, RG Casey, Garfield Barwick, Paul Hasluck, Gough Whitlam and other important Department of Foreign Affairs personalities, together with papers relating to Australian foreign policy in China, Japan, Burma and the ANZUS alliance.
Biographical Note:: Charles Garrard (Garry) Woodard was born in Adelaide on 3 July 1929, graduated in Law from the University of Adelaide in 1951, and entered the Department of External Affairs in January 1952. From 1970 to 1973 he was the first head of the National Assessments Staff in the Joint Intelligence Organisation, Department of Defence. He was Ambassador to Burma 1973- 75, to China 1976-80, and High Commissioner to Malaysia 1980-83. He was DEA policy adviser on the US and on East Asia 1975-6, when negotiations were concluded for a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Australia and Japan, and 1985-6. He spent 1984 with the Westpac Bank under the Business Interchange Program. He retired in 1986, took an honorary appointment in the then Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, wrote widely, and maintained an active contact and correspondence with former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and former Secretary of the Departments of External Affairs and Defence Sir Arthur Tange. He served for 15 years as a part-time member of the Federal Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and held positions on various boards, including the Australia-Japan Council, the Museum of Victoria, and the International Advisory Board of Wrights Investors Trust USA. He was active on a range of social issues and in the Australian Institute of International Affairs, of which he was national president from 1991-1993.