Maxwell Newton

Containers:

Box 9 (MS Acc11.100)

Component identifier:

File 62

Content Summary:

Papers, articles about Maxwell Newton. I was employed by Max Newton, an economic journalist publisher of economic and political newsletters, from about late January 1968 to 1974, at first to write and edit Tariff Week, one of the subscription newsletters, and later also to write for other newsletters including Parliamentary and Legislative Review, Minerals Week and for Daily Commercial News and to write and edit special publications. When the organisation moved to Sydney I became Canberra correspondent for Daily Commercial News, Pacific Islands Trade News, Australian Miner and other periodicals; Australian Media Traditions Conference, Old Parliament House, Canberra, 24-25 November 2005; Paper 'On a roller coaster with Maxwell Newton Publications' (14 pp.); Program Politics/Media History, OPH/University of Canberra

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Patricia Clarke were donated to the National Library under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme (now the Cultural Gifts Program (CGP)) in 1990, 1994 and 1997. Further donations were received via CGP in 2006 and 2011.

Subjects:

History
Literature

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