The collection comprises papers relating to Bill Bowtell's policy and administration roles relating to HIV and AIDS Strategy, the introduction of Medicare, Sydney Airport Noise Management, the 1996 Federal Election Campaign, privatisation of Telstra and consultancy work with the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department and the Office of the Minister for Justice and includes; correspondence; diaries; reports; agenda and meeting papers; newspaper cuttings; and printed materials.
The collection comprises papers documenting academic and gay right's campaigner Dennis Altman's career as a writer and his roles in Australian and international HIV/AIDS organisations. Includes correspondence to and from academics, publishers, politicians, leaders of homosexual movements and admirers.
(38 archive boxes + 5 large folio boxes + 2 medium elephant folios + 2 oversized pieces + 13 sound/av carriers + 5 digital carriers)
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This collection comprises papers spanning the early years and working career of Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue AC CBE DSG, advocate for Australian First Nations people. Much of the collection relates to Dr O'Donoghue's senior roles as chair of Aboriginal Hostels, chair of the Aboriginal Development Commission and of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). There are reports, papers and correspondence relating to Dr O'Donoghue's extensive and varied involvement in associations and movements for Indigenous health welfare and human rights. There are also biographical papers, photographs, published books and articles, notebooks and diary schedules, loose transcripts and a boxed 3-volume collection of speeches. Also included are commemorative and personal objects from Dr O'Donoghue, such as torches and tracksuits from the Olympics and ParaOlympics, her wedding dress and decorations, as well as plaques of appreciation, honours and awards.
This collection reflects Robert Darby's interest and involvement in left-wing politics over the period 1970-82, and his participation in union and community affairs from 1979-85. There is considerable overlap between material on University-based student groups and left-wing political movements generally. The main focus is on Victorian (La Trobe University) material, however several States and the Australian Capital Territory are well represented.
The collection comprises documents relating to the public health, epidemiology and academic career of Emeritus Professor Robert Douglas AO, along with records relating to his post retirement activities and includes: unpublished personal memoir and interview; list of peer reviewed publications (1960-2000); two doctoral theses on Hyertensive disease (1963) and Studies in Pneumonia (1973); WHO Consultancy reports relating to acute respiratory infections in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, The Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, China; Primary Health Care support project report in Burma; records relating to the development of Master of Philosophy in Applied Epidemiology at the Australian National University; a history of the social, environmental and sustainability non-governmental organization Australia21, that Douglas helped develop and chaired for 10 years.
(13 MS boxes + 1 Cold Store album + 2 items + 2 digital carriers)
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This collection comprises various documents related to the founding of Mental Health First Aid Australia (MHFA) and the dissemination of mental health first aid training to other countries including Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Canada, USA, China and New Zealand. The collection covers the period from 1999 to 2019 and includes: email correspondence between the founders and others involved in the early history of the program, transcripts of interviews with the founders, correspondence with government departments and overseas organisations, photographs of key events, funding applications and agreements, legal correspondence, awards, and other documents regarding the founding of the company. The collection also includes mental health materials relating to First Nations Australians. This includes: correspondence from the Department of Health and Ageing regarding programs for First Nations Australians at MHFA; press releases relating to MHFA courses for First Nations Australians; and proposals to the Commonwealth Government seeking funding to support First Nations Australians MHFA programs. The collection has been arranged by the donor in chronological order.
This collection comprises a handwritten letter dated 5 Aug 1932 from Dr Edwin Archibald Holland to his father, Edwin Holland, regarding his success in combating malaria as a Papua New Guinea Health Officer; and copy of a related article in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, volume XXVI, no 6, pp. 529-538 (May 1933).
This collection comprises handwritten diary entries by June Alexander, who grew up on a dairy farm and wrote about family, working and rural life, from the age 12 upwards until 2016. The handwritten diaries are complimented by ephemera, letters and email printouts, photographs of family and friends, digital diaries (2015-2023) and letters (1998-2009). The personal diaries form the basis for Alexander's memoir, documenting struggles with mental health, an eating disorder, relationships, studies, writing career and aspirations. There are drafts, publisher letters and a signed published copy of Alexander's 2009 memoir A Girl Called Tim. Newspaper clippings of articles, both about and by Alexander, are interfiled in the diaries. There are two early school books (scrapbooks), with awards, newspaper clippings and other items relating to Alexander's early writings.
4.0 metres(2 MS Boxes + 2 small folio boxes + 26 Map folios +1 piece)
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Archive related to the Bendigo based Sandner family business Sander and Sons, producers of eucalyptus oil/extract in the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes certificates of registration of trademarks, testimonials for products, advertising material, appointments of international agents, product samples, correspondence, mortgage documents, contracts and photographs.
(4 ms boxes, 7 digital carriers, 9 audiovisual carriers)
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Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this file contains names, descriptions and images of deceased people and other content that may be distressing and/or culturally sensitive, specifically content relating to the nuclear weapons testing at Maralinga and Emu Field between 1952 and 1963, including personal statements of Aboriginal people living in these communities.