This collection features medals and certificates awarded to Dr Evelyn Ruth Scott, together with congratulatory letters and cards. Medals and awards include include a Silver Jubilee Medal from Queen Elizabeth II in 1977, the Centenary Medal in 2001, the Order of Australia in 2003 and a Queensland Greats Medal in 2003. These were awarded for Dr Scott's efforts and achievements in improving access to legal, housing, employment and medical services for Indigenous communities.
(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.
MS 9118 comprises articles and newspaper clippings relating to Barry Coldrey's work on child sexual abuse and child migration. The collection includes four bound volumes of photocopied newspaper clippings titled "Western Australian Christian Brothers boys homes and child migration, 1992-3", "Newspaper comment concerning the child migration controversy. Book two", "Sexual abuse crisis: Canadian Catholic Church, 1989-1997", and "The sexual abuse crisis: Australian Catholic Church, 1990s". The collection also contains drafts of a series of articles on the sexual abuse of children since the early 19th century, articles on Christian Brothers' orphanages and the draft of a longer paper titled, "The sexual abuse question" (3 boxes).The Acc08/187 instalment comprises research articles on British and Maltese child migration, Coldrey's submission to a Senate inquiry into child migration, related research notes, correspondence, photographs and copies of journal articles by others on the same subject (1 box).The Acc09.32 instalment includes photocopies of newsclippings from Canadian newspapers relating to the sexual abuse crisis in the Canadian Church 1989-1997 (1 packet).The Acc09.47 instalment is a small collection of material written by Coldrey and gathered from the press regarding sexual abuse in the Catholic Church by clergy (1 packet).The Acc09.120 instalment consists of two spiral bound volumes of the author's news clippings. Volume 1 is mostly concerned with child migration or sexual abuse in orphanages. The second volume contains correspondence relating to and reviews of Coldrey's book, Faith and fatherland: the Christian Brothers and the development of Irish nationalism 1838-1921, published in 1988. Most articles are dated and attributed but are not in order of publication (1 packet).The Acc10.13 instalment consists of a spiral-bound volume titled References to Brother Barry Coldrey's writings in international newspapers, 1990 to 2009, containing printouts of online news articles relating to sexual abuse by clergy in the Catholic Church (1 v.).The Acc18.135 instalment comprises further papers, writings and reflections on the Christian Brothers regarding the decline of the Christian Brothers organisation. (1 packet); MS Acc18.135 comprises Coldrey's reflections on the history of and decline of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church.
(1 medium folio box + 7 digital carriers + 5 sound/av carriers)
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The collection features an unpublished manuscript for "The Abduction of Douglas Wood in Iraq in 2005 – The Family's Story", written by Malcolm Wood, discussing the kidnapping of his brother Douglas Wood. It also includes audiovisual and digital material, newspaper cuttings and other printed material relating to Wood's time as a hostage in Iraq, his rescue and repatriation.
(32 boxes + 1 archives box + 4 large folio boxes + 2 small folio boxes + 3 folio items)
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MS 5068 comprises correspondence, diaries (1934-1951), reports, notes, texts of speeches, printed material and newspaper cutting books (1933-1972). The material relates to his work for the Australian Aborigines, and his involvement in various organizations, such as the Aborigines Advancement League of South Australia. It documents the development of the Ernabella Mission in the Musgrave Ranges, in 1937, and the use made of the Smith of Dunesk Bequest for the improvement of Aboriginal welfare. The bulk of the collection covers the period from 1930 to 1960 when Duguid was campaigning most actively for Aboriginal rights. The later correspondence, from 1960 to the early 1980s, consists mainly of congratulatory notes and telegrams on Duguid's 80th and 90th birthdays, and on his award of the O.B.E. The collection also includes the typescript of his autobiography (11 boxes).
(52 ms boxes, 5 large folio boxes, 1 binder, 2 map folios)
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The collection comprises papers and correspondence (personal, business and official), photographs and ephemera of members of the pastoralist Mackay family, particularly brothers James Alexander (Kenneth) and Donald George Mackay and their families. The material mostly spans from the 1880s to the late 1950s.
7.66 metres(25 ms boxes + 3 archives boxes + 2 large folio boxes + 3 medium folio boxes + 4 card index boxes)
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The collection comprises notes and alphabetical index cards relating to Katherine Stirling Kerr Cawsey's books on the Kerr Brothers, an Anglo-French distributor of goods including copra and cocoa; original papers and diaries of her father Graham Lennox Stirling Kerr; Cawsey's notebooks and diaries; correspondence; business records relating to the Kerr Brothers Ltd and the East Santo Plantations Ltd in the New Hebrides (now the nation of Vanuatu); photographs; and scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings.
(16 ms boxes, 3 medium folio boxes, 2 large folio boxes, 8 map folios)
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The collection represents a considerable part of Paterson's work and life. There is a large group of his writings in the form of manuscript and typescript drafts of verse, prose, articles and radio plays. Some drafts are fully formed, while others are notes jotted down in journals and diaries. There are papers and photographs relating to Paterson's military service in both the Boer War and World War 1, family correspondence and photographs, newspaper cuttings, ephemera, scrapbooks, and memorabilia.
This collection comprises records relating to the early development of the cochlear implant and commercial manufacturing and production of the technology. It includes market studies, documentations relating to patents, approval applications, financial projections, survey results, correspondence, and press coverage.