Bert Thomas Case, 1915. Fowler sought the re-opening of the case of Bert Thomas of Perth, who was wrongfully sentenced for murder, and succeeded in obtaining his release. Correspondence and a newspaper item document this case. Unit ID: e)
Electoral material, such as pamphlets, policy statements and correspondence about elections, make up the first group. Unit ID: (i)
Joint Committee of Public Account. Report.... upon the Commonwealth Naval Dockyard, Cockatoo Island, New South Wales. 1915. Unit ID: d)
Joint Committee of Public Accounts. Report ..upon sugar. 1922. Fowler was chairman of this committee, which investigated abnormalities in the high prices of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. This group of papers includes Hansard excerpts, press cuttings, magazine articles, parliamentary reports and minutes of evidence Unit ID: f)
Nawab Khan Inquiry, 1909. Fowler's investigations into the abduction of a ten-year-old Australian girl to India by her Afghan stepfather, Nawab Khan, resulted in his presentation in 1910 of a bill to amend the Immigration Restriction Act. This subseries contains, as well as correspondence on the topic, newspaper cuttings about this and related cases, part of the amendation to the Immigration Restriction Act, 1901-1908, and the Native Labour Ordinance, Papua, 1906 Unit ID: b)
Papers of James Fowler, 1899-1940 0.48 metres (3 boxes) Unit ID: MS 2280 Repository: National Library of Australia Date: 1899/1940 Creator: FOWLER, J.M. (James Mackinnon), 1865-1940 Physical Description: 0.48 metres and (3 boxes)