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Papers of Adrian Jose, 1917-1988

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Presenter and administrator, Adrian Jose began his long career in Australian broadcasting as a radio announcer-in-training with the Australian Broadcasting Company in 1930. He held a number of management positions in Queensland and New South Wales branches of the Australian Broadcasting Commission before his 1949 appointment as Director of Programme Services at the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, a post from which he retired in 1971.

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Ensemble Theatre, Sydney : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, 1958-

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Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items of the Ensemble Theatre, Sydney including various theatre programs such as the Cavalcaders, the Dock brief, Harp on the willow, and Why kids?.

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Papers of Marian Eldridge, 1942-1997

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Eldridge was a short story writer and novelist. The collection comprises personal correspondence, financial papers, correspondence concerning the writing and publication of her various works, handwritten drafts, typescripts, copy-edit and page proofs, notes and research material, and book reviews.

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Papers of Tom Fitzgerald, 1956-1987

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The fortnightly magazine Nation was one of the few truly independent journals published post second world war. It commenced in September 1958 merging with another independent magazine in 1972 to become Nation Review. Nation was published during a significant period of Australia's post war history. Politically, the turmoils of the Australian Labor Party and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam war were topical issues.

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Papers of Colleen McCullough, 1958-1981

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The collection comprises drafts of the Australian author Colleen McCullough's early writing, including: early first drafts (plus draft film script) of her first published novel 'Tim' (1974) - draft title "Not the Full Quid" - written when McCullough was working as a neurophysiologist at Yale University in the USA; numerous drafts of unpublished poems, some with handwritten meter notations; drafts of short stories with the titles "Mer-Song", "Oft in the Stilly Night", "The Mudhole", "Michael", "A Few Cat Tales", "No Psychological Strings Attached"; and three letters - one from Margaret Latrobe to McCullough, one from John [surname unknown] to McCullough plus a response from McCullough to John. The majority of the records are typed and many include handwritten edits and notations and only nine of the works include dates.

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Papers of Athol Johnson, 1959-1966

Papers of Jack Beasley, 1947-1999

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The collection comprises correspondence, drafts of The rage for life (1964), 'My unilateral debate: Katharine Susannah Prichard and matters pertaining' (in Australian Literary Studies, vol. 11, no. 7, Oct. 1983), A gallop of fire (1993), Red letter days (1979), Widdershins (1986), Journal of an era (1988), plays, miscellaneous literary writings, including children's stories, political papers, Wedgetail Press records and cassettes.

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Papers of Brij Lal and Padma Narsey Lal, 1835-2022

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This collection comprises the papers of historian Brij Lal and ecological economist Padma Narsey Lal. Brij Lal's papers relate to research conducted into Fijian economic and political systems, including the history of Indian indentured labour in Fiji. Included are handwritten research notes, news cuttings, council papers and reports, and Brij Lal's undergraduate papers. Padma Narsey Lal's papers consist of research, reports and studies relating to the sugar industry and associated environmental issues, in particular mangrove conservation, and include over 100 slides depicting farming and infrastructure. The collection also contains recorded interviews with Jai Ram Reddy, the former attorney General of Fiji; academic Ken Gillion's research notebooks and related slides; and publications relating to Fiji, the Indian diaspora, Fijian politics, Pacific history, the Fijian sugar industry and the conservation and economic valuation of mangroves in Fiji.

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Papers of Sir William Heseltine, c.1940-2012

Rugby Union - 1960s : programs and invitations ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia, 1960-1969

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Material in the Programs and invitations ephemera collection includes invitations to official events, dinner invitations honouring visiting dignitaries, dance cards, award presentations, openings, commemorative and sporting programs. Some programs and invitations may also include menus.

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