Very Fast Train, 1988-91

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Series 32

Content Summary:

In 1989 Else-Mitchell was asked by the Victorian Government, which was considering proposals for a very fast train between Melbourne and Sydney, to report on Government powers to resume ownership of land and to limit the escalation of land values, and also the viability in law of separate machinery of government to undertake the process of land acquisition. In addition to his report, this series contains correspondence, reports and publications relating to the Very Fast Train proposals. The correspondents include Jim Kennan and Helen Martin.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Justice Else-Mitchell first placed papers in the National Library in 1981. He had earlier donated a considerable quantity of papers to the Mitchell Library in Sydney but decided that the later papers documenting his involvement in a range of national organisations should be in the National Library. Further papers were received in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1991 and 1995. The 1989 and 1991 instalments were donated under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme.

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