Speeches, 1963-82

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Series 6

Content Summary:

In the course of his public life Victor Garland has delivered hundreds of speeches and addresses on formal and informal occasions, including during election campaigns, at Liberal Party and electorate functions, addresses to conferences and seminars, and speeches made while High Commissioner to Britain. Records of many of these speeches were kept and are preserved in the Garland Papers. In this series, speeches made by Garland between 1963 and 1982 and kept in Garland's Canberra and Perth offices have been brought together. Included are printed speeches, speaking notes, drafts annotated by Garland or his staff, and related source and background documents. Some papers relate to the publications of articles based on speeches.

There are two sub series. The first, largely comprising runs of Hansard extracts, contains speeches made by Garland in Parliament together with questions asked during debates (1970-76). The second, larger sub series contains speeches delivered outside the House (1963-82), including some made before Garland entered Parliament and others made while he was a High Commissioner. Occasionally, texts of interviews and TV appearances occur in these speech files.

There are indexes of Garland's speeches as a Minister between 1978-80, compiled by his staff. Arrangement of speeches within both sub series is broadly chronological.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The first instalments of the Garland Papers were presented to the Library by Victor Garland in 1975. Between 1976 and 1981 eight further instalments of papers were received from Garland's Perth electorate office and his office in Parliament House, Canberra. Further papers were received from Sir Victor in London in 1993.

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