(4 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box + 70 sound/av carriers + 15 digital carriers)
Abstract Or Scope
The collection comprises research material compiled by d'Alpuget between 1979 and 1982 while writing the book Robert J. Hawke: a biography (Melbourne: Schwarz/Lansdowne, 1982). The collection includes typescripts of the Hawke biography; notes from conversations and correspondence with Hawke and others; ACTU Executive minutes, 1970-78; papers relating to ACTU Congresses, 1967-79; R.J. Hawke speeches; newspaper and magazine cuttings and other papers. Also includes interview notes for Mediator: a biography of Sir Richard Kirby (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1977).