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- 1950 - 1987 (Creation)
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Brian Galligan was born in Dalby, QLD in 1945. He graduated in Economics and Commerce from the University of Queensland, and has a Masters and PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto. In the early 1980s he was Senior Research Fellow, Department of Political Science at the Australian National University and Deputy Director, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations. From 1984-1992 he lectured at La Trobe University. Galligan was Professor and Director of the Federalism Research Centre at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU from 1992-94. Since 1995 he has been a Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne and later became a director of the university's Centre for Public Policy. Galligan is author of a number of books on Australian citizenship, politics and political economy, and has co-authored publications including Beyond the Protective State (1992) with Ann Capling.
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The records in this deposit are source material for Dr Brian Galligan's book on the acquisition and development of Central Queensland coal resources by the US company Utah International. The book was published in 1989 by the University of Queensland Press as Utah and Queensland Coal: a study in the micro political economy of modern capitalism and the state. It covers the period from the late 1960's to the mid 1970's. At the time of publication Dr Galligan was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations.
The research files in this deposit are arranged in groups which roughly match the chapters of the book. A fair amount of the material on the Utah/General Electric merger in 1975 was obtained through US Freedom of Information procedures from the United States Department of Justice, Anti-Trust Division, which had investigated the merger. Further records held in the deposit include: tape recordings and transcripts of interviews with Utah executives, Queensland municipal officials and others; drafts of sections of the book; photographs; and printed material.
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Researchers must sign an access agreement. Information held on the tapes and transcripts of the interviews remains private to the individual and should not be quoted without permission.