The archive of journalist Wilfred Burchett spans 40 years of his career and consists of images taken by him, or by others using his equipment. It documents life in communist societies, including Vietnam during the 1960s. The archive also includes photographs taken in Laos, Cambodia, Korea, China, Russia, Algeria and Africa capturing siginificant political events in those countries, his relationships with prominent leaders such as Ho Chi Minh and Prince Norodom Sihanouk and also includes family photographs.
(89 ms boxes + 3 large folio boxes + 1 medium folio box + 7 small folio boxes + 3 volumes + 13 map folios + 2 elephant folios + 219 sound/av carriers + 63 digital carriers)
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The collection comprises four instalments. The original instalment MS Acc09.179 comprises research material on various topics including Chloe MacMillan, gold transfer from Nazi Germany to Lisbon, Salazar, Macau, Huambo, Luanda; documents relating to East Timor including lists of military equipment in use, United Nations documents, Timorese Constitution, 2006 violence; correspondence with Noam Chomsky on East Timor, Francesc Vendrell, United Nations, Helen Clark, Herb Feith, Arthur Tange, Francis James, Kevin Sherlock; publications including articles arising from Jolliffe's interviews with Xanana Gusmao and Konis Santana; articles by Jolliffe as filed to commissioning newspapers; photographs, mostly taken in East Timor and others from Angola, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, China, Burma, Azores, Macau; news clippings of Jolliffe's articles; journalistic and research notebooks; videos and audio tapes of stories and radio broadcasts concerning East Timor; ephemera including press cards, invitations, exhibition catalogues and World War II propaganda.The MS Acc11.188 instalment comprises manuscript and published material relating to Portugal and its colonies, specifically East Timor and Angola with some references to Macau. The contents include newspaper articles, photographs, monographs, Portuguese cabinet documents, a significant collection of postcards, realia, manuscripts and correspondence (notably with Xanana Gusmão). Much of the material is written in Portuguese.The MS Acc12.040 instalment comprises manuscript and published material relating to Portugal and its colonies, specifically East Timor and Angola with some references to Macau. The contents include newspaper articles, photographs, monographs, realia, manuscripts and correspondence. Much of the material is written in Portuguese.The MS Acc17.135 installment comprises papers from Jill Jolliffe's professional life as an investigative journalist. They include working files containing a combination of research material, notes, printed ephemera, clippings, drafts of articles, transcripts of interviews, printed emails and correspondence. There are photographic prints, modest objects, Government reports, videos and audio cassettes, extensive material regarding East Timor, the Balibo Five and the Living Memory Project, published journals containing articles by Jill Jolliffe, notebooks containing notes from interviews.
This collection of papers includes reports, proceedings and correspondence, legislation documents relating to intercountry adoption in Australia and overseas. The collection includes the reports and associated papers of two Australian intercountry adoption delegations to countries in Asia of which Fopp was a member, and material from conferences concerned with both local Australian conferences, and the International Council of Social Workers Seminars of 1979, 1980,1981 and 1982 at which Fopp represented Australia. Some of these conferences Fopp attended as a government agent, some as a private citizen, and the reports are produced by government and non-government agencies. It also includes correspondence and publications in relation to adoption in Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, Indonesia, Korea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, and Taiwan.
This collection comprises papers and material relating to Cheryl Stock's career as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. Material in Boxes 1-7 are divided into two sections. The first comprises papers relating to Stock's career in general and the second to her work as founding Artistic Director of the northern Queensland contemporary dance company Dance North (1984-1995). There are working notes, research notes, programs, scripts, publicity material, press cuttings and photographs relating to the various productions with which Stock has been involved. The correspondence included in the collection relates only to specific productions on which Stock was working. There are also copies of journal articles, keynote addresses and seminar papers by Stock. Material in Boxes 8-16 mainly comprise papers, reports, photographs and material relating to Stock's role as founding artistic director and choreographer of Dance North, her involvement with the World Dance Aliance Global as Secretary General (2008-2016), and her time in Vietnam, where she was the first teacher, director and choreographer to introduce contemporary dance. There are also funding applications, budgets, reports, program schedules, choreographic notes, photographs and notebooks. Material also relates to site specific work as well as interviews and fieldwork undertaken by Stock for her doctoral thesis.
This collection comprises of letters from Wilfred Burchett to Sarah Boston, dating from 1969-70. At the time Sarah Boston was a researcher working for Granada TV and was asked to research the life of Ho Chi Minh. She met Wilfred Burchett in Paris and he assisted her with her research.
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.
The collection comprises records relating to sinologist, writer and university professor Pierre Ryckmans and includes correspondence - some addressed to his pseudonym Simon Leys - from friends, fellow writers, academics, editors, publishers, critics and the general public; notes; notebooks; draft material for lectures and articles; printed material; photographs and audio cassettes. The material is written in either Chinese characters, French or English.
2.76 metres(2 ms boxes, 1 large folio box, 2 medium folio boxes + 3 small folio boxes)
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This collection comprises photograph albums, papers, publications and other documents from the families of James Frederick James and Helen May Cameron that provide a portrait of expatriate life in Kobe (and to a lesser extent, Yokohama) from the late 1800's up to the Second World War.
Personal correspondence written by Reverend (Alexander) Rowan Macneil to his wife and children while imprisoned at Changi prisoner of war camp in Singapore during the Second World War.