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Papers of John Mulvaney, 1605-2016

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This collection comprises files created by Professor Mulvaney in the course of his career as an archaeologist, historian, author and lecturer and includes correspondence, drafts of writings by Mulvaney and others, notes, notebooks, fieldwork papers and research material, financial papers, grant applications, minutes of meetings, submissions, reports, drawings, maps and plans, certificates, newspaper cuttings and other printed material. Mulvaney corresponded with archaeologists, historians, politicians, colleagues and friends from Australia and overseas. The bulk of the letters in this collection are written to Mulvaney, although drafts and copies of his own letters feature as well.

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Papers of Lowitja O'Donoghue, 1940-2013

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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.

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National Folk Festival: programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, 1970 -

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The National Folk Festival was first held in Melbourne in 1967, and was initiated by The Victorian Folk Music Club, The Monash Traditional Music Society, the Burwood Teachers Folk Club and performers Martin Wyndham Reed and Glen Tomasetti. From 1969 until 1991 the festival traveled interstate each year, and was hosted at least once in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane, Fremantle, Alice Springs, Perth, Kurunda and Maleny. The increasing size of the festival made it harder for the hosting states to organise the festival every year, so since 1992 the festival has been held each year in Canberra, with a 'feature state' on the program - providing increased performance opportunities for artists from that state. The Festival takes place at Exhibition Park in Canberra, and is held from Easter Thursday - Easter Monday.

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Papers of Chrissie Parrott, 1979-2006

Papers of Vivienne Abraham, 1927-2015

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The papers in MS 9152 include correspondence (mostly with G.A. Bishop), research material, notes, cuttings, ephemera, printed material and other papers relating to the Federal Pacifist Council, conscientious objectors, War Resisters International, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Pacifist Movement of Victoria, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Peace Pledge Union, Religious Society of Friends, International Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Peacemaker and other pacifist and peace movements.

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Papers of Dymphna Cusack, 1937-1983

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Correspondence; drafts of novels, plays, poems, broadcasts, travel books, an autobiography and short stories; press cuttings, diaries, photographs, invitations, programmes, notes, posters, personal documents such as certificates and passports, cassette-drafts of Triple concerto, foreign periodicals and booklets, and many other printed items. Also includes three typescript drafts of Nurse No Longer Grief, draft of My Experience as a High School Teacher, MSS and galley proofs of Dymphna by Freehill and drafts of The Tide is Running Out.

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Records of the Air Ministry (as filmed by the AJCP), December 1911-May 1955

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Records created or inherited by the Air Ministry, the Royal Air Force, and related bodies.

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Papers of Donovan Clarke, 1907-1986

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MS 8199 comprises: 1. Lectures on literature and fine arts given at the University of Sydney and Leura; 2. Subject files, personal and professional, containing clippings, manuscripts, correspondence, photocopies and printed and roneoed material; 3. Manuscripts on literature and the fine arts; 4. Journals of overseas trips, 1958-1959 and 1966; 5. Correspondence and cards, 1959-1985; 6. Five notebooks; 7. Card indexes to Clarke's collection of books and recorded music (24 boxes, 5 cartons).

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Papers of Hilary McPhee, 1950-2012

Papers of Spiro and Margaret Moraitis, 1952-2002

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Spiro and Margaret Moraitis were involved throughout their professional lives in a large number of community, voluntary and government organisations, often in executive roles. Many of the series consequently contain large quantities of minutes, agendas, correspondence and similar administrative documentation. Other types of documentation include correspondence, appointment diaries, photographs and slides, reports, submissions, newsletters, personal artefacts, ephemera and organisation-related material such as project background information. Many of the series are interspersed with relevant press cuttings, but there is also a separate press cuttings series (Series 41) which retains an original, chronological run of general interest cuttings assembled by Spiro Moraitis.

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