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Flight to Freedom, 2012-2013

89 items
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A collection of photographs of Barat Ali Batoor's journey and other Hazara asylum seekers as they fled oppression in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2012. Includes the smugglers' route through Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia and on the final sea leg to Austrlaia. The journey to Thailand was undertaken legally, but the illegal journey with people smugglers started on entering Malaysia. The boat from Indonesia did not make it to Australia, running aground on rocks off the coast of Java, with 90 people on board.--Information from acquisitions documentation.
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Minutes of evidence and reports, Commonwealth Housing Commission, 1943-1944

1.44 metres (8 archives boxes)
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Evidence covering each state given by government departments and instrumentalities, associations, municipalities, country shires and the manufacturing sector. Evidence incomplete from New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. Also one folder of reports to National Works Council. Evidence in typescript form.
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Papers of Paul Collins, 1939-2021

(58 boxes + 1 large folio box + 16 audiovisual carriers + 6 digital carriers)
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MS Acc05.197 comprises general correspondence, ca. 1983-2004; correspondence relating to leaving the priesthood, ca. 1997-2001; material and correspondence relating to the ABC, ca. 1988-1993; newspaper cuttings, ca. 1980-2001; appointment diaries for 1992 and 1995; typescripts of broadcasts, ca. 1989-1990; articles for books, ca. 2001; and, brochures for conferences, ca. 1999.
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Vote No to the Voice rally for the referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, Hyde Park, Sydney, New South Wales, 23 September, 2023, 2023

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On 14 October 2023, Australians voted in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.

Papers of Jonathan Brown, 1966-2023

(5 phase boxes, 4 folders)
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The collection comprises personal correspondence to and from the author, scrapbooks relating to his time as ambassador to Zimbabwe, and family history.
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Rice growing, harvesting and processing in the Riverina region, Leeton and Murrami, New South Wales 2023, 2023

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Collection of photographs documenting the growing, harvesting, and processing of organic rice in Leeton and Murrami in the Riverina region of New South Wales. The images capture the people, the process behind the growing and harvesting of organic rice, and the processing and storage at the SunRice Leeton Mill, and the rice storage facility in Murrami. The collection shows the important and impactful work regional workers have on Australian farming. The Murray Darling Basin, which incorporates the Riverina, is Australia's most important agricultural region, producing around one-third of Australia's food supply.
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Papers of Street and Mackay families, c1900-2010

(7 archive boxes + 1 small folio box, 1 large folio box + 2 folders)
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This collection comprises family photographs and albums; correspondence including letters from Mackay's mother, Jessie Street; account book; and family history research files that include biographical material relating to Jessie Street, newspaper clippings, papers of D. G. F. Mackay, publications and audiovisual material.
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Papers of Joyce Scarlett, 1923-2013

0.75 metres (1 small folio box and 1 medium folio)
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The collection documents the life of Joyce Scarlett (nee Melville) including: her time at Sydney University in the 1930's, where she was active in student politics; her work as a teacher of English (by correspondence) to newly arrived immigrants; and her career as a broadcaster and scriptwriter for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in New South Wales and Western Australia. The collection comprises correspondence, ABC radio scripts, photographs, diary extracts and notebooks from the 1950's relating to interior design, cooking and catering. An itemized list is housed with the collection material.
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Papers of the Mackay Family, 1883-1957

(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.
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Papers of Ken and Amirah Inglis, 1930s-2008

(21 ms boxes + 6 sound/av carriers)
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This collection contains personal correspondence between Ken and Amirah Inglis, as well as correspondence with colleagues and friends. There are drafts of writings and related research material, together with personal documents and biographical papers relating to the Inglis' school and university years. Topics represented in the collection include the ABC, military history, Indigenous Australians, Papua New Guinea and obituaries of notable Australians.