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Papers of Janet Venn-Brown, 1954-2022

(31 ms boxes + 2 map folios + 3 folio box + 12 folders + 10 audiovisual carriers + 4 digital carriers)
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The original MS 10291 collection comprises papers relating to Wael Zuaiter, Palestine and Janet Venn-Brown's artistic career, including diaries and notebooks covering daily life and several trips between 1979-2006 to Jordan, Syria and Palestine; correspondence with family, friends and associates; video and audio cassettes; photographs and exhibition invites; publicity and catalogues. (18 ms boxes + 2 folio boxes + 1 shared box)
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Papers of Peter Shergold, 1974-2022

(30 ms boxes + 2 folio packets + 93 digital carriers + 33 audiovisual carriers + 1 binder)
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Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this collection may contain names, and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions within these works which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
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Papers of Moira Dynon and John Dynon, 1929-1983

(46 ms boxes + 3 audiovisual carriers + 1 folder + 1 medium folio box)
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The collection comprises correspondence, newspaper cuttings, publications and material related to Aid for India Campaign, immigration matters and the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1959. The collection also includes many photographs related to Moira's WWII service with the Women's Axillary Australian Air Force, the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimentation Section, the Aid for India Campaign, and several family related photos. Correspondence includes many notable names such as Mother Teresa, Robert F Kennedy, Robert Menzies, Harold Holt, William McMahon, Indira Gandhi and many others.
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Janet Hawkins photographic archive, 1994-1997

(60 colour and B&W photographs 21 x 29 cm + 25 colour and B&W photographs 10 x 10 cm + 128 colour slides 35 mm + 4 documents + 3 publications + 1 news clipping + 1 CD)
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The collection comprises photographic prints, negatives, publications and ephemera documenting the political, cultural and social life of Melbourne in the mid 1990s, with a focus on marginal groups and protest movements. These groups and movements include: biker groups; Vietnam Veterans, conflict between anti-immigration and anti-racism groups, and the female ordination movement. These photographs were taken while Janet Hawkins was completing four years of study at Photography Studies College in Melbourne.
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Papers of Sir John Quick, 1885-1954

(4 ms boxes + 6 archive boxes + 1 large folio-box)
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This collection comprises reminiscences of Sir John Quick's life and times, and other items that mostly relate to his proposed bibliography of Australian literature, and scrapbooks related to his career. Also included is material related to Sir John Quick and his wife Lady Catherine Quick including scrapbooks, invitations, programs, certificates, personal papers, correspondence and objects.
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Papers of Verity Burgmann, c. 1956-2022

(12 ms boxes + 8 archival boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 map folio + 87 audiovisual carriers)
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This collection comprises recordings and papers compiled by political scientist Verity Burgmann. The recordings are of interviews (1970-1994), speeches, meetings and protests of far-left wing activists (1981-2019), conducted by Burgmann and others. Prominent activists interviewed include Frank Hardy, Tom Payne, Lloyd Ross and Mary Wright (87 sound/av carriers) There are papers relating to the Australian Society for the Study of Labour history. These records from the Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney branches are complimented by a run of the Melbourne branch's newsletter 'Recorder', from 1964-2021 (incomplete). Other papers relate to Burgmann's academic life (1982-2020) with two main portions dedicated to applications to the Australian Research Council and other research grant schemes, as well as conferences attended (1979-1989). Burgmann's, working papers for The People's history of Australia, co-edited with Jenny Lee, are made up of correspondence with contributors, publishers and supporters of the project along with financial papers, summary drafts, style guides and charts. There are Burgmann's examiner reports, manuscript assessment and supervision samples from her time at the University of Melbourne as well as special studies program applications.
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Papers of Kevin Andrews, 1986-2018

44 boxes + 2 albums + 14 digital carriers + 19 audiovisual carriers
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This collection comprises papers relating to Andrews parliamentary career, electorate, and related activities over three decades. It includes policy materials, notes and materials relating to the private member's bill on euthanasia, some ministerial documents, and media releases. Also includes election materials like brochures, bumper stickers, and media releases, transcripts from speeches and presentations, Coalition Policy Review documents from 2008-2014, shadow ministry papers, Coalition directories, digital files, and correspondence.
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Papers of Alan Neaves and Jean Neaves, 1890-2022

(23 ms boxes + 1 large folio box + 1 binder)
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This collection comprises material relating to the life of Alan Neaves and his wife Jean Neaves (née Dalgleish) including: drafts of "A Biographical Memoir of Alan Reginald Neaves", letters, correspondence, speeches, papers, certificates, appointment diaries, notes, publications, photographs and slides. Material also relates to Alan's career including his time as Commonwealth Crown Solicitor, Secretary to the Attorney-General's Department and Federal Court Judge. Also included are family history papers relating to: the Dalgleish and Hilton families, Jean's maternal and paternal sides; the Neaves family including typed copies of Henry Herbert Neaves', Alan's father, "War Diary of Captain H.H. Neaves"; the Jones family, Alan's maternal side; and, extended families including Kelly and Hoskins.
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Papers of Tsebin Tchen, approximately 1986-2004

(2 ms box + 1 shared binder)
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This collection relates to Tsebin Tchen's campaign for election as a Victorian Member of Parliament, his involvement with various Chinese community organisations, and his participation in the Chinese Australian Federation Conferences, 1986-1990. It includes personal diaries, newspaper cuttings, printed material and colour photographs of various parliamentarians.
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Papers of John Halden Wootten

(47 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 folder + 1 digital carrier)
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This collection comprises working and personal papers of the late John Halden (Hal) Wootten AC, QC, 1922-2021. Wootten's papers cover his high profile career where he was involved in a wide range of matters of national significance including his years as a barrister, foundation dean of the University of New South Wales Law School, a judge of the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Chair of the Press Council, President of the Australian Conservation Foundation, a Commissioner into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and a Deputy President of the Native Title Tribunal. His papers include notebooks from field-work on Manus Island in 1947, information about the influential LawAsia Foundation from the 1950s, and a folder containing details of the original meetings that established the Aboriginal Legal Service in Sydney in 1970. He acted for both employers and employees in important industrial disputes in the 1960s, out of Chambers he shared with both John Kerr and Gough Whitlam in Sydney. Included in this material on the case of James Savage, aka Russell Moore, a Yorta Yorta and Wemba Wemba man who was incarcerated in the United States of America. Wootten was given leave from the Royal Commission to provide evidence for the trial in California.
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