The Australian Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers) had its origins in the Federated Public Service Assistants' Association of Australia which was registered in 1914. The union became known as the Commonwealth Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers) in 1967 and then eventually in 1974 became known as the Australian Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers). By the end of 1986 the name was shortened to the Australian Public Service Association. In 1989, the union amalgamated with the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association, Australian Government Employment and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Union to form the Australian Public Sector and Broadcasting Union. This was reregistered in 1991 following a further amalgamation with the Meat Inspectors' Association. By the end of 1992 the union had amalgamated twice more, firstly with the Professional Officers' Association and then the Professional Radio & Electronics Institute of Australasia to eventually form the Public Sector Professional Technical Communications Aviation & Broadcasting Union. A year later this union had merged with the CSIRO Staff Association to form the Public Sector Professional Scientific Research Technical Communications Aviation & Broadcasting Union which, in 1994, evolved into the Community and Public Sector Union [CPSU].
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Classified file series including correspondence, minutes and reports. Includes records of predecessors the Federated Public Service Assistants Association of Australia and the Commonwealth Public Service
Association.
Received from the union in May 1985 and January 1989. Further deposits received in 1991 and 1992.
Unreturned loan items from box 19: files 5/4/53 and 5/4/63; box 46: files 6/1/58 parts 1-2; box 62: files 10/1/1/1-2; box 129: file 24/15/3; box 130: files 24/15/10 parts 1-2; box 145: file 24/53/1 part 1-2; box 158: files 24/120/1 and file 24/122/1 parts 1-3, removed from collection lists March 2015.
There is a box list for boxes 1-271 (the original deposit). For further boxes 272-532 (a mixture of type 1s and cartons) look at the old list for these boxes in the red ring binder then check what the new numbers of those boxes are in the 'reboxing and renumbering list' on the share drive. This deposit was mid-way through being re-boxed/processed in preparation for the repository move in 2014 and re-boxing/processing has not yet been completed. HH December 2014.
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Item list (and box lists - ask an archivist)