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Papers of Sir Isaac Isaacs, 1883-1969

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The collection is small but includes family correspondence, articles and addresses, papers concerning Jewish affairs between 1942 and 1944, notebooks written whilst a student, script-books, newspaper cuttings, photographs, a Government House visitor's book, regalia, certificates and illuminated addresses. The papers document Isaacs' career as a State and federal politician, judge and as Governor-General of Australia.

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Papers of Sir Roland Wilson, 1917-1999

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The papers relate to the career and personal life of economist, statistician and senior Commonwealth public servant, Sir Roland Wilson KBE CBE. The papers include correspondence; academic notes; addresses and speech notes; as well as files retained by Wilson on a number of aspects of Australian Commonwealth economic policy development. Correspondents include early statisticians and economists, such as J. B. (James Bristock) Brigden and L. F. (Lyndhurst Falkiner) Giblin, aviators such as Sir Hudson Fysh, and federal ministers and prime ministers such as R. G. Menzies and Harold Holt. Some material relates to issues surrounding the governance and management of the Commonwealth Bank and Qantas when Wilson was member and Chairman of the boards of those enterprises.

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Papers of James R. Darling, 1947-1991, 1947-1991

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The original consignment includes correspondence and other papers, primarily relating to the Australian Frontier, the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, the Road Safety Council, Marcus Oldham Farm Management College and the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

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Papers of Norman Abjorensen, 1981-1992

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This collection contains background information gathered in the preparation of Abjorensen's biography of Liberal Party leader, John Hewson, together with typescripts of the work. Additional papers include transcripts of interviews with Margaret and Carolyn Hewson, material relating to leadership challenges by Andrew Peacock, correspondence and contract with Lothian Books, research files, press releases, speeches by Hewson, photocopies of newspaper cuttings and photographs used in the book.

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Papers of the Deane Family, 1847-1960

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Henry Deane's papers include: correspondence and printed material relating to his work as Engineer-In-Chief in charge of Commonwealth railway construction, notably the Transcontinental (Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta) railway; newspaper clippings and photographs covering his career and other interests, notably botany, concerning which there is also a quantity of correspondence (with J. H. Maiden and Baron von Mueller, among others) and notes and specimens relating to his work on Australian fossil flora and native timbers.

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Papers of Sir John Storey, 1935-1955

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The collection includes personal correspondence files including R.G. Menzies correspondence; addresses and articles by Storey; reports; prospectuses; publications; newspaper cuttings on defence, immigration, industry, economics and other subjects; files relating to General Motors Holden, Bristol Airplane Company, Overseas Corporation (Australia), Repco, overseas trips and the aircraft industry; defence papers including papers on the Joint War Production Committee; industrial management papers including papers on the Australian Institute of Management and immigration papers including papers on the Immigration Planning Council.

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Records of the Gippsland Women's Network, 1994-2006

Records of the Marist Fathers (Society of Mary) (as filmed by the AJCP), 1844-1946

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The records consist predominantly of letters written by Marist fathers, brothers and nuns in Fiji and Rotuma in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition, there are some journals covering the early years of the Mission and extracts from published works on the history of the Marist missionaries in the Pacific.

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Papers of James Bristock Brigden, 1923-1948

Collections held by the East Sussex Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1668-1934

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The material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes: Quarter Sessions and Rye records relating to the costs of transportation; register of emigrations; promotional material relating to emigration to Australia; manuscripts; newspaper clippings; journals, photographs, correspondence and addresses.

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