Environmental issues, 1981-1998

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Series 17

Content Summary:

Correspondence, notes, drafts of articles and other writings, reports, submissions, research material, printed material and other papers concerning Mulvaney's interest in and activities relating to environmental issues, particularly issues involving the region of South West Tasmania.

Material in this series primarily concerns the 1981 proposal by the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission to build a dam on the Franklin River in South West Tasmania. Mulvaney visited the region in 1982, and wrote of the importance of Fraser Cave (now Kutikina Cave) and other archaeological sites in the area. He campaigned to have the dam project stopped, and to have the region included on the World Heritage List. In protest at the actions of the Federal Government concerning the proposed dam, Mulvaney resigned as a member of the Interim Council of the Museum of Australia in 1982. There are papers relating to the archaeological significance of sites in the region, the environmental impact of the proposed dam, submissions to the Senate Select Committee on South West Tasmania, appeals to the World Heritage Committee, and support from academics, parliamentarians, heritage and environment groups and others, both in Australia and overseas.

This series also includes papers relating to such environmental issues as phosphate mining on Christmas Island, alpine heritage, the sustainability of Australia's population, global warming and environmental legislation.

Among the correspondents are Harry Allen, Jim Allen, J.R. Ashton, Peter Baume, Jonathan Benthall, Eric Best, Joseph Birdsell, Alan Bonham, Jim Bowler, Bob Brown, Harry Butler, K.S.W. Campbell, Don Chipp, Christopher Chippindale, Grahame Clark, Peter Cook, Glyn Daniel, Barrie Dexter, Hayden J. Downing, John Feint, Malcolm Fraser, Jack Golson, Richard A. Gould, Alistair Graham, R.C. Green, Don Gregory, D.C. Griffiths, Peter Hallahan, C.F.W. Higham, Robert Hill, Clyde Holding, W.W. Howells, David Hughes, John Iremonger, Barbara Isaac, Adrienne Jackson, Barry Jones, Rhys Jones, Roger Lewin, Hugh Maclaren, Colin Mason, Isabel McBryde, Vincent Megaw, Paul Mellars, Alan Missen, Merrick Posnansky, Don Ranson, Peter Read, Colin Renfrew, Ian Richards, Graham Richardson, Derek Roe, E.G. Roland, Susan Ryan, Vimala Sarma, Carmel Schrire, Vincent Serventy, Ralph Slatyer, Wilhelm G. Solheim II, Baden Teague, Norman Tindale, P.A. Tyler, P.J. Ucko, Graeme Ward, Russel Ward, Ian Wilson and Jerzy Zubrzycki.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original instalment of this collection (MS 9615) was donated by Professor Mulvaney under the Cultural Gifts Program in September 1999. Further instalments were received in 2013 and 2017.

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