The original signed minutes are bound in three volumes and extend from 4 December 1950 to the last meeting on 23 September 1960. At the end of the third volume there are also minutes of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies from 28 October to 2 December 1960. There is a duplicate set of minutes in box 2 for issue to the reading room.
Board of Graduate StudiesThis series consists of six parts of a confidential file number 61/9 created by the Prime Minister's Department and from 1967 the Department of Education and Science. The file includes correspondence, cablegrams, briefings and reports on the proposed international observatory 'in the Southern Hemisphere'. By part 5 of the file the title is '150" telescope in Australia' and refers to the Siding Spring telescope.
Department of Education and ScienceThe index cards were prepared by Lewis during his research for a Master of Arts thesis on the early history of the Canberra University College and the Australian National University. There is a list of material he consulted at the Commonwealth Archives Office (now the National Archives) at the front of the first box which also indicates the original order in which the cards were maintained.
Lewis, Milton JamesThe black binders contain copies of the agenda, minutes and agenda papers of the Matriculation Committee. At early meetings it was referred to as the Matriculation Board of the Board of Studies and from its 22 September 1970 meeting as the Admissions Committee. From the 1990s agenda papers were held in box files and have been placed in archival folders. There is one folder of Admissions Committee reports 1979-1998 to the Board of the School of General Studies, later the Board of The Faculties.
Admissions CommitteeSome records relate to the Australian Universities Commission, including reports of visits to other universities and minutes 1959-1967. Most relate to the ANU campus, including submissions to the Australian Universities Commission, reports on site planning and development proposals, taffic and parking studies, and files relating to the preparation and publication of a 1991 history of the ANU campus.
Dexter, David St AlbanThis is the earliest ANU series of official ANU correspondence files. The extant files include the correspondence of Vice-Chancellor Douglas Copland, papers of the Interim Council and Academic Advisory Committee, files about the Easter Conference in 1948 and about individual visitors and staff.
Office of the RegistrarThe papers include addresses made by Crawford from 1933 to 1982, including the Buntine Oration in 1968 and the Sir Robert Garran Oration in 1969. There are medals, degrees and certificates presented to Crawford, and photographs, including albums relating to official overseas visits as Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Trade and later as adviser to the World Bank. There are also publications relating to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Some material relates to Crawford's family including personal papers and photographs.
Crawford, John GrenfellThe negatives of photographs from 1948 to 1969 are held in glassine bags with a similar-sized print (12 x 9 cm). From 1977, the negatives are held as strips in plastic sleeves, with proof sheets, in binders.
Office of the RegistrarThere are minutes and correspondence for both the national and ACT committees of the Florey Memorial Fund which was administered in conjunction with the Royal Society in London. The last item is a box of unsorted receipts and letters which accompanied donations.
Florey Memorial Fund CommitteeThis material was collected together by Dr MRC Banyard primarily for the establishment of an exhibition to commemorate the work of Sir Howard Florey in the foundation of the John Curtin School of Medical Research. There are placards used in an earlier exhibition held in Oxford on the development of antibiotics, a tissue perfusion chamber, photographs of Florey, images which appeared in the exhibition, photographs of the exhibition, and correspondence relating to the exhibition which was opened by Senator Susan Ryan, Commonwealth Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, in March 1984.
John Curtin School of Medical ResearchThese correspondence files were maintained by Oliphant during the period he was head of the Department of Nuclear Physics and Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences, and deal with administrative matters, conferences, external organisations, projects and the Britannica Australia Awards. Some files have a multiple number with D prefix, but a single number has been imposed on all files.
Oliphant, Marcus Laurence ElwinThe volume contains a number of accounts which are not consecutive but continue at other locations in the volume:
Cash receipts, Feb 1950-Mar 1954, pp. 1-129
Cash statements, 1954-1955, pp. 129-133
Trust fund receipts, Mar 1951-Oct 1963, pp. 201-259
Trust fund receipts, Oct 1963-Jun 1967, pp. 166-200 (in reverse)
Trust fund receipts, Jul 1967, p. 159
Prize funds accounts, Jun 1963-Jun 1964, p. 260
Prize funds accounts, Jul 1964-Jun 1967, pp. 160-164
Trust fund payments, Jun 1952-Jun 1963, pp. 261-279
Trust fund payments, Jul 1963-Jun 1967, pp. 134-151
There is a register of receipt books for 1949-1953 inside the front cover.
Office of the RegistrarThese papers include published articles and papers prepared by Birch on Research School of Chemistry matters, as well as manuscripts for a history of the Research School and an autobiography 'Against the Stream'.
Birch, Arthur JohnThis series is an annual compilation of Copland's articles, speeches and broadcasts mainly from the period he was Vice-Chancellor.
Copland, Douglas BerryThe folders include teaching material and departmental papers relating to the Philosophy Department in the Canberra University College and from 1960, the School of General Studies in the Australian National University.
Gibson, Quentin BoyceCorrespondence and other papers relating to Kioloa, the Edith and Joy London Foundation and ANU; historical material, ledgers, journals, newspaper cuttings, printed material, transcripts of tape recordings, photographs, microfilm reels and slides.
London, JoyThis is a very miscellaneous collection of papers attributed to Professor Bob Gollan, including material sent to him 'for the Archives' such as Alex Dowling's draft history of the trade union movement in Newcastle and a transcript of an oral history session at a departmental seminar on The Depression.
Gollan, Robin AllenbyThe records include teaching and course material from philosophy courses taught by Val at various Australian and overseas universities, particularly Macquarie University; draft papers; correspondence; conference material; notes; reports; newspaper clippings.
Plumwood, ValThese correspondence files from the Physiology Department of the John Curtin School of Medical Research were originally maintained by Professor Eccles as head of the department 1952 to 1966 and then by his successor Professor Peter Bishop. They relate to staff and research students of the school, meetings and conferences of related scientific organisations and general administrative matters.
Eccles, John CarewMinutes of Central Council meetings (1929-1972), office files of General President and Secretary including records of the Cokeworkers' Association of NSW (1903-1977), financial records, minutes of Seymour Miners' Lodge, Tasmania (1931), Balmain Miners' Lodge records (1924-1936), Retired Mineworkers' Association records (1956-1968), Combined Mining Unions records (1946-1971), papers of Henry Mather, arbitration material, newspaper cuttings, photographs, drawings and printed material.
Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' FederationDiaries and documents (government notices, private letters, newspaper clippings) maintained by Father Kerley during the Bougainville crisis from November 1988 until 1997. The material was collected by Father Kerley at the time or added to later. The hand written diaries (Roman Catholic calendars or diaries used for recording the sacraments - births, deaths and marriages in the rural parishes) are written by him in a kind of code to avoid scrutiny, as he held a position of trust between the waring factions - the Bougainville Revolutionary Army, the 'rascals', the Papua New Guinea Police and external military forces. He has spent many years since transcribing his coded diaries out in full and adding other documents to support his notes.
Kerley, KevinUnprocessed
Research School of Pacific and Asian StudiesThis series has not yet been processed.
Standish, WilliamThe collection was created by Jeff and Su Doring in c1972. The film (videocassette) 'Tidikawa and Friends' is a 50 minute documentary of the daily lives of the Bedamini speakers of PNG through the eyes of Tidikawa, a spirit medium who communicate with ancestral spirits. The film was awarded the AFI Gold Award for Best Documentary ; the Australian Cinematographic Society, Best Documentary ; and the Gold Award for Best Documentary in the 15th American Film Festival, 1973. The collection also includes seven large folders of 35mm colour and black and white negatives, together with contact prints; three small files of 5.5cm Panchromatic black and white negatives, and Kodak colour 5.5cm negatives ; plus some field notes on the Bendamini.
Doring, Jeff1 large box of field data sheets, with codes and reports from a UPNG survey conducted by four teams of students on Normandy and Fergusson Islands in 1986. The survey was undertaken to identify the monetary needs of householders to 'live well' and to establish baseline data for future comparison.
University of Papua New GuineaThe collection includes papers, photographs, slides, negatives and contact prints relating to archaeological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea: in Lake Kopiago, Western Highlands District, Papua New Guinea (1967 and 1973) ; Kosipe, Central District (1964 and 1967) ; Irian-Jaya (May - June 1983) ; Brooker Island, Louisade Archipelago (1967) ; New Ireland (1969 - 1990) ; Balof 1 (1988) ; Balof 2 (1990) ; New Ireland (1988 - 1994) ; New Britain (2001).
White, J PeterReverend Henry Williams was a Methodist Missionary on Normandy Island 1930 - 1945. In December 1940, during a pastoral and medical patrol to Sewa Bay, the inhabitants spoke of strange stones with unusual markings, which prompted Reverend Williams to record the site and conduct further research. The paper is in three parts, with varying contents including: Introduction ; The site of the stones ; General observations on the site ; The story of the stones ; A curious cave terminal ; The engravers and their tools ; Features in the designs ; The builders from whence? ; Primitive engravers. Includes text, maps, plates and hand-drawn illustrations.
Williams, Harry T1 poster
Roots, GNangamp [Nangamb] Native Local Government Council, Kerowil, minutes of meetings, Jan 1962-Feb 1965, in Pidgin;
Minj and Nangamp Local Government Councils, Kerowil, minutes of meetings, Apr-Aug 1965, in Pidgin;
Documents re amalgamation of Minj and Nangamp LGCs to form Wahgi LGC, 1965;
Wahgi Local Government Council, Kerowil, minutes of meetings, Jul 1966, Jul 1973-May 1976, in English;
Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Local Government Council Conference - Highlands Region, Mt. Hagen Council Chambers, 28-30 Mar 1967.
Wahgi Tuale Association, Aims and Policies; and other documents.
Photocopy of original transcript, Parts I-XI and appendices A-L, includes detailed contents list, 148pp. Part 1 Introduction: Australian administration in the northern (mandated) Solomons on the outbreak of war with Japan ; Part 2: The evacuation of Kieta - Read takes over civil administration - The Japanese bomb Buka Passage and Kieta ; Part 3: The Japanese invasion ; Part 4: Awaiting allied offensive ; Part 5: American attack in Solomons ; Part 6: Victory in Guadalcanal ; Part 7: Suspension of coastwatching on Bougainville Island ; Part 8: Evacuation ; Part 9: Recommendations ; Part 10: Techniques of coastwatching ; Part 11: Miscellaneous
Read, William John (Jack)Ombisusu stories is a collection folk stories gathered through oral history and research conducted by Joanne Wodak in mid 1969 while a tutor in literature at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1968 - 1970. The collection consists of stories by inhabitants of Ombisusu that were mostly translated into English, some left in the original language and written down or typed by the researcher after recording them on tape. The aim of collecting stories was to keep them for the benefit of the children of Ombisusu villagers and for people in Papua New Guinea. The collection contains stories on history, origins and clans.
Wodak, JoanneEighty five publications by various Tok Pisin authors. Includes publications on agriculture, health, education and literacy, government, religious texts, children’s books, grammars and phrase books, etc. Also some publications in local indigenous languages (Tok Ples) such as Fore and Atzera, some English publications concerning Tok Pisin, and one short typescript manuscript in Tok Pisin on an account of a first time visit to Port Moresby.
Balint, AndrasNotes, newspaper articles, personal correspondence, letters by Whittaker, diaries, photographs, letters and documents in relation to his business as an optometrist in Papua New Guinea, documents relating to Awilunga Plantation Limited, legal and financial records.
Whittaker, GeorgeThe collection covers the period 1962 to 1976, when John Duffield was a Patrol Officer, Political Education Officer and District Government Liaison Officer with the Australian Public Service in Papua New Guinea. Included are Field Officer Journals from 1972 to 1976; several Patrol Reports and a very large collection of letters, circulars, reports, telegrams, ephemera, patrol instructions and comments on patrol reports; declarations of Local Government Council elections; as well as many personal records including his appointment as a Local Government advisor; an acceptance letter to ASOPA (the Australian School of Pacific Studies); his appointment letter as a Cadet Patrol Officer and appointment as a Magistrate for Native Matters. There are copies of the 'Black and White Magazine' and posters and ephemera relating to self-government and Independence. Rare publications include: the Western Highlands District Agricultural Society Mount Hagen Show Handbook for the Fourth District Show, dated 1967; Recipe book - 'Entertaining in Papua and New Guinea', published by the Boroko Branch of the Country Women's Association, 2nd Edition, 1968; and the Third South Pacific Games Souvenir Cookery Book, c.1969.
Of particular significance are booklets produced for the Independence celebrations in Port Moresby in 1975, including booklets on the 'State Welcome & Flag Lowering', 'Sport & Culture', 'Royal Tour', 'Guriguri Hebou', 'Bikpela Lotu, 'Flag Raising', 'Installation & Constitutional Ceremonies', 'State opening of the First National Parliament', 16 September 1975, 'Official Programme'.
The collection includes one album of photographs covering the period.
Duffield, JohnCollection includes field notes, newspaper clippings, research reports, photographs and maps:
Items 26 - 31: Field notebooks - Simpson Desert, Papunya, Indonesia.
Items 4 - 11: Map of the 1977-1978 voyage to Antartica in the 'Solo', including several photographs and newspaper clippings.
Items 1, 14, 17, 20: Details about the navigational techniques used by the Prahu Captains of Indonesia.
Item 21: Draft article on the Prahu Captains for 'Playboy'.
Items 22 - 24: Route-finding techniques of Aboriginal people in the Western Desert of Australia.
The series consists of 395 images of people, families, villages, social life and customs as well as images taken in the course of Frank Ryan's work as a District Agricultural Officer.
Ryan, Francis XavierNotes, press cuttings and files relating to Communist Party of Australia campaigns; papers relating to Richmond municipal politics; poetry and songs, pamphlets and leaflets, printed material on communism theory and international politics.
Miller, KenCarbon copy of journal from the commencement of service on 1 June 1964 to or 14 February 1965, including stations at Rabaul, Kokopo, Messawa, Manus (Lorengau), Balluan and Rambutso. Also includes papers related to the creation of the Enga Cultural Centre and the story of the Enga Provincial Flag.
Gordon-Kirkby, John WilliamThe collection includes significant language and genealogical data. The records include research files, letters, journals and diaries compiled by Davis while working as a social anthropologist in Papua New Guinea :-
Items 1 - 59 - Journals (1965 - 2000)
Items 60 - 111 - Research Files
Items 112 - 115 - Publications
Conference and seminar papers; PhD thesis; course material; field work tapes, notes and interview; correspondence; drafts; collection of articles and chapters on Pacific women, Christianity in Melanesia, Australian Aboriginal history and Aboriginal women, anthropological theory and miscellaneous theory, New Caledonia and Polynesia.
Douglas, BronwenResearch papers of K L Gillion, publications re Fiji press, material relating to CSR, Methodist papers and miscellaneous papers (not yet processed).
Gillion, Kenneth LCorrespondence, press cuttings, journal articles and reviews, unpublished verse, theatre programmes and poster, 1981; photograph and other documents; Thesis: Lyn Baer, In Between: Cultural Ambivalence in the Novels of John Kolia, 1982; audio recordings on cassette tape, duplicated typescripts, and publications.
Collier, John AlexanderThe collection consists of disaster and research reports, disaster preparedness workshop training manuals, seminar papers, consultancy management files, newspaper clippings, small publications and ephemera, a large number of SOPAC (Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission) and United Nations reports, and documents created when Joe Barr was engaged as a consultant in relation to disaster management in the Pacific Islands. Of particular significance are the photographs and slides taken immediately following disasters in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Cambodia, Turkey, Afghanistan, India and Indonesia.
Barr, JosephAerial photographs of the Rabaul area, Papua New Guinea, including Sortie Works, defence areas, forests, Keravat, Kokopo, and Ataliklikun Bay.
Granger, KenCorrespondence, memoranda and report, evacuation lists, defence plans and notes.
Braisby, Arthur LPapers documenting David Bruce Moorhouse's career in Papua New Guinea as a patrol officer, administrator, and land consultant. Includes patrol reports, field officer's journal, mining consultancy papers, correspondence, papers relating to border crossings and territory intelligence, newspaper articles re royal visit by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, publications and maps.
Moorhouse, David BruceReprints of academic papers by Margaret Mead, newsclippings and copies of publications, correspondence, and a copy of biographer Jane Howard's CV and talk 'Flyovers, Quiddities, Pledges'.
Bull, MarjorieThe records comprise New Guinea Society papers presented at meetings in Canberra, records relating to membership and activities, correspondence, constitution, minutes and notices of meetings. The collection also includes some documents relating to the Papua and New Guinea Society, a group formed in Port Moresby in 1962.
New Guinea SocietyPost World War II the need for education in Papua New Guinea was listed as essential in the Provisional Administration Bill of 1945. In the late 1950s, W C Grove, as Director of Papua New Guinea Education, saw that education for local students was hampered in that the Territory did not have staff to run schools while indigenous teachers were being trained. The 'E' or Emergency Crash Teacher Training Course was implemented. The aim was to recruit Australians, quickly train them and post them to primary schools. The first "E" course began at Malaguna Technical Centre in 1960. On 1 April 1961 the first E course graduates were posted to districts throughout PNG. The courses ended in December 1971. This compilation is in two parts. The first describes the courses, the second is a list of lecturers, trainees who graduated from the three training colleges at Malaguna, Madang and Port Moresby, and selected events.
Houston, Bernard WThis series contains interview recordings, transcripts and research papers. They include transcripts of interviews with backbenchers in the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly, 1974; a code book interview schedule and research committee paper; lists of the members of the House of Assembly, 1964-1976; research files and publications.
The interviews were conducted in English, Tok Pisin and Motu; written (typescript) versions are all in English. Most of the interviews were conducted by University of Papua New Guinea students with the interviewers frequently identified in the written version. A memorandum from Gadbois to an (unspecified) research committee provides a rationale for the form of the study.
Gadbois, George Harold JrThe archive comprises correspondence, lectures, notebooks, papers and other research records relating to the economic development and industrialisation in Papua New Guinea from 1961-1974. The documents cover such subjects as building and construction, fishing, gas, coconut and village industries, the labour market, migration and over-urbanization in Papua New Guinea.
Wilson, Robert KentPublications and photograph album.
Spate, Oskar Hermann Khristian1 album of 40 black and white photographs taken by a miner associated with the Astrolable mineral field and the Laloki and Dubuna Mines near Port Moresby. The photographs were taken between 1918 and 1924 and include images of mining operations, storage facilities and a tramway, staff housing for the New Guinea Copper Mine, as well as the general images of the landscape and everyday events, including Rouna Falls, Bootless Bay, farming, harvesting and ploughing, a coconut plantation at Bautama (Bootless Inlet) and a funeral procession.
Gosson, Francis JohnThe collection consists of reports, correspondence, press clippings, minutes of Fijian parliamentary committees, memoranda, parliamentary legislation documents and submissions, election material, press translations and published material.
Norton, RobertThe collection contains research files compiled by Basil Shaw to write a biography on the former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Michael Somare. Includes correspondence, interview material, drawings by Captain Yukio Shibata, photographs, press cuttings, maps and photocopies of printed material.
Shaw, Basil JohnContains research papers, census and statistical reports, correspondence, published and unpublished reports relating to population studies in the Pacific Islands. Includes material on American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Tokelau, Palau, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Samoa.
Booth, HeatherReports and papers relating to educational policy, TPNG Department of Education curricula, publications of the Manpower Planning Unit, Apprenticeships Board of PNG and University of PNG.
Hossack, IanCollected papers on Papua New Guinea history, mining, and independence including interviews with spokesmen of the Highlands Liberation Front, research papers and reports. Includes papers relating to the University of Papua New Guinea Council, transcripts of interviews with Papuan Defence Force personnel and Papuan Chinese on their experiences.
Denoon, Donald John Noble74 files of transcripts of radio news bulletins from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), Papua New Guinea branch. The bulletins report on all aspects of the Australian administration as well as reflecting the beginnings of the shift towards independence.
Luck, GeoffreyThe collection contains published and unpublished papers on Kuru disease.
Nelson, Hyland NeilPrinted maps of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Western Samoa, New Caledonia (Noumea), Vanuatu and Fiji. The aerial photographs are of Papua New Guinea and Fiji only.
ANU Department of Human GeographyPrinted material and copies of historical publications on the South Pacific, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Hawaii, Samoan Islands, Philippine Islands; copies of correspondence, photocopies of ship logs, maps, thesis material, administrative papers relating to the management of the Department of Pacific and South East Asian records room, and sound reel tapes of interviews relating to the Rorovana Land Crisis, Bougainville Island, 1969.
Research School of Pacific and Asian StudiesThe collection forms part of the newspaper cutting service run by the Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences and consists of cuttings from various Australian and Papua New Guinean newspapers, relating to government and politics in Papua New Guinea. Guide files from 1962-1966 document the early newspaper service and other holdings of the Political Science and International Relations Departments.
ANU Department of Political ScienceThese reports were gathered by Dr Peter Sack as part of his research on land ownership systems and cultural patterns of inheritance and ownership which effect land tenure in Papua New Guinea. Includes Magistrates Land Law Survey 1968; reports on land matters on the Gazelle Peninsula and on administration of justice, law and order issues; photocopies of maps and plans.
Sack, Peter GeorgItems 1 - 31: Research papers and research data on transport systems in Papua New Guinea, includes sea, air and road transport systems. While conducting this research Marion Ward was the Field Director of the New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Her research assistant was Barbara Mainsbridge.
Items 32 - 35: Field data from East Sepik District Field Trip, Mar 1969. The field trip was to collect data on transport in the East Sepik District. Accompanied on field trip by Amirah Inglis. Other data collected and field data processed by Barbara Mainsbridge, Research Assistant to Marion Ward at the New Guinea Resarch Unit (NGRU).
Items 36 - 45: Field Data from visit to Milne Bay District. The visit was to collect data on transport in the Milne Bay District. Accompanied by Barbara Mainsbridge, Research Assistant, who collected and processed other data and processed the field data.
Items 46 - 52: Transport information bulletins.
Items 53 -58: Reports on fresh food production and transport in the Port Moresby Hinterland. While conducting this research Marion Ward was the Field Director of the New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Items 59 - 65: Economic papers, maps and data relating to Ward's study.
Contains research papers, academic articles, speeches, diaries, correspondence and government publications on the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the Seychelles. Papers re general Pacific Islands matters, including Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand and the South Pacific Commission, constitutional development, and press cuttings. The collection was compiled by Allan during his time as an administrator in these Islands and as a researcher.
Allan, Colin HamiltonThe collection relates to Fiji politics, covering the following topics:
• National Federation Party
• Indian Political Bodies
• General Elections
• Alliance Party
• Fijian Political Bodies
• Labour Party
• All National Congress (ANC)
• Fiji Elections, 1963 – 1985
• Constitution
• Economy
• Unions and Industrial Conflict
• Education
• Local Government
• Indian Organisations
• 1987 Elections
• Interviews with Indo-Fijian politicians
The Reddy collection contains material relating to Jai Ram Reddy’s involvement in Fijian politics as leader of the National Federation Party (NFP) and leader of the Opposition.
Includes, correspondence, Fiji Government reports and papers, material relating to a review of the Fiji constitution, National Federation Party (NFP) of Fiji papers, parliamentary speeches, material relating to the Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Act (ALTA) and papers relating to women’s issues in Fiji.
This series has not been processed
Laycock, Donald ClarenceThis series has not been processed.
Recordings of language data (narratives, myths, wordlists, conversation) and of music from Papua New Guinea, the North Moluccas (Indonesia) and the Solomon Islands.
This series has not been processed
Stewart, ChristineThe research papers include notebooks and photographs relating to Clarke's work on land use in Papua New Guinea, particularly with the Bomagai-Angoiang people.
Clarke, William CareyThis series has not been processed.
Groves, Murray CharlesPacific research papers on human geography including research materials on population, agriculture and natural resources in the Pacific Islands. Includes census data and government reports for Kiribati, Samoa, Vanuatu and Niue; newspaper articles, government and academic papers relating to Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Tuvalu, Western Samoa, Micronesia, Tonga, including topics on nuclear testing, colonialism/postcolonialism and economic development.
Also contains records documenting of aspects of Diana Howlett's education and research.
Most of the papers are proposals and reports on particular development programs from Brogan’s role as Director of the Asia Program in the National Centre for Development Studies and the National Graduate School of Management. They relate to projects in Vietnam, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, India, East Timor and China, particularly under the China Australia Governance Program. There are also some photographs of course participants and training materials. Also contains research and government papers relating to the Papua New Guinea government and economy.
Brogan, BrianResearch papers, drafts and notes on the Pacific Islands, with particular focus on the Cook Islands and Samoa relating to the publications Samoa 1830-1900, 1970 and The Cook Islands 1820-1950, 1980. Including material on Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (Kiribati), Niue and PNG. Papers relating to the German Administration of Western Samoa, translated into English by Mrs Trudi Newbury, and collected by R.P. Gilson from Archives New Zealand.
Gilson, RichardDocuments and research notes relating to the Methodist Church in Papua New Guinea and Reverend Threlfall’s research on Papua New Guinea.
Items 1 - 14 : Methodist Mission Papers: Minutes and reports of New Britain District Synods, 1896 to 1941; including Study Papers presented to the 1932 Synod.
Items 15 - 24 : United Church Papers: Minutes of the New Guinea Islands Regional Synod of the United Church of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, 1969, 1971-75 and 1979-82.
Items 25 - 40: Early Contacts and Settlements: Including extracts from New Bedford Whalers’ Logs notes from the memoirs of Eduoard Hernsheim, etc.
Items 41 - 78: German New Guinea: Official reports and other documents. Chinese settlers (Cahill, Wu).
Items 79 - 88: World War I. The Expropriation of German Properties (including Pat Hopper’s thesis, 'Kicking out the Hun').
Items 89 - 99: The Australian Mandated Territory, between World Wars 1 and 2.
Items 100 - 119: Extracts from Albert Hahl, 'Governor in New Guinea'. More notes from the between-wars period.
Items 120 - 129: Geological and volcanic history, especially the 1937 and 1941-43 eruptions.
Items 130 - 142: Post-WWII material; in particular land claims and disputes on the Gazelle Peninsula; Gazelle Peninsula/Rabaul. Problems over land & multi-racial Gazelle Peninsula Local Government Council, murder of District Commissioner Jack Emanuel, the trial and notes on the Tolai situation and the establishment of provincial government.
Items 143 - 172: Gazelle Peninsula/Rabaul and the problems over land and the multi-racial council.
Items 173 - 200: Pre World War 2 material: defence arrangements in Rabaul 1939 - 1941, the Japanese invasion in January 1942, personal memoirs, interviews from persons from 1910 - post World War 2.
Items 201 - 225: Chronology of prisoners' movements, civilians and soldiers, the Chinese in Chinatown until 1943.
Items 226 - 278: Methodist and United Church Papers, notes on New Britain/New Ireland from church papers in the PNG Collection, University of Papua New Guinea Library.
Map shows plantations that existed on Taveuni in the 1890s and relates to Brookfield’s research for the publication – ‘Tavenui: land, population and production’, Canberra: Development Studies Centre, ANU for UNESCO, 1978.
Brookfield, Harold ChillingworthAlmost half of this record group is concerned with PNG. These papers were gathered when Ward was Lecturer in History at the University of Papua New Guinea and adviser to the Land Evaluation and Demarcation Project Study (LEAD). The collection includes correspondence, notes, articles and papers, draft legislation and press cuttings.
A small portion of these papers relate to politics and land matters in Australia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Africa, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Banaba, French Polynesia and Guadeloupe.
The remainder of the documents are mainly concerned with New Caledonia between 1947 and 1990 and were assembled by Ward at La Trobe University, Melbourne, through the 1980s, particularly during the years of political uncertainty in the French Territory from 1984 to 1990
Ward, Alan DudleyLetter books of the Branch Secretary (1930s), correspondence (1943 - 1959), income, expenditure and balance sheets, arbitration material, rules for federal and branch divisions, Journals of International Federation of Hatters and Hatters Gazette (1911 - 1924).
Federated Felt Hatting Employees' Union of AustralasiaResearch papers and newspaper clippings mainly relating to France's role in the Pacific Islands. Countries include New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia and Tahiti.
Henningham, Stephen CharlesBound volumes of minutes of the association, various committees, and related body, the Australasian Steamship Owners Federation.
Association of Employers of Waterside LabourThe deposit consists of records from the New South Wales Branch and the National Office. Records of the New South Wales Branch consist of Secretary's files, President's files (Max Schroder), and Vice-President's files: minutes, agenda papers financial records, annual reports, correspondence, nomination forms for positions of office bearers, membership applications and reports. Records from the National Office include: governance and policy records, President's files (Arthur Hunt), minutes and agenda papers of Council and Executive meetings, reports, branch and national conference records, files of the AITEA travel fellowship, printed material and corporate products.
Association for Tertiary Education Management IncorporatedRecords of the United Operative Bricklayers' Trade Society of New South Wales (1870-1942) including Sydney, Newtown, Lithgow, North Sydney, Goulburn, Burwood and Canberra branches, records of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (1895-1945) including NSW and Queensland Management Committee minutes and records of Sydney, Balmain, Goulburn, Newcastle (membership records 1913-1949), Boulder, Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie and Brisbane branches, and minutes of the NSW State Executive of the BWIU (1943-1983), State conferences (1944-1983) and Newcastle Branch (1940s-1970), subject files, arbitration material, rule books and printed material. Also includes records of the NSW Operative Stonemason's Society (1899-1910), Federated Bricklayers' Association of Australia (1915-1920), Plate, Sheet and Ornamental Glass Workers Union of NSW (1916-1930) and the Ship Joiners Society of Australia (1917-1918, 1950-1952), minutes and membership register of Tilelayers' Union of NSW (1908-1913), minutes (1929-1982) and membership records (1925-1976) of the NSW Glass Workers' Union, minutes of NSW Building Trades Federation (1913-1916), Brewery Employees' Union, Kalgoorlie/Boulder District (1910-1914), Operative Plasterers' and Plaster Worker's Federation, NSW State Executive (1967-1994), Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association (FEDFA) Management Committee (1984-1993), and records of the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union, NSW Branch (1947-1994) and Newcastle Branch (1974-1991). Records from 1993 were created by the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union.
United Operative Bricklayers' Trade Society of New South WalesAerial topographical photographs, 1986 - 1987, together with related printed material on Vanuatu geology, forestry, agriculture and land use, 1967 - 1997.
Background:
'In June 1990, the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (AIDAB) contracted the Queensland Forest Service (QFS) and the CSIRO, Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures to undertake the Vanuatu Forest Resource Survey Project. The principal aim of the project was 'to contribute to the national objective of the Vanuatu Government to plan and manage the country's forest and agricultural resources in conjunction with appropriate land use development and conservation strategies for the economic benefit of the Vanuatu people'. During the project a geographically-referenced micro-computer based planning tool called the Vanuatu Resource Information System (VANRIS) was developed. VANRIS integrates spatially referenced information for the entire country concerning the type, distribution and current use of the natural resources with population distribution'. This Abstract was taken from Bellamy, J A (Ed), VANRIS Handbook, CSIRO (Qld), 1993
This series contains mainly black and white photographs of people associated with the University: staff, students, Chancellors, Council members, Creative Fellows, and visitors. Some envelopes contain many photographs over a staff member’s career. The photographs are contained in envelopes, alphabetical by surname. The majority of the photographs were taken by staff photographers or by local photographers under contract, but there are also some press photographs.
ANU Marketing and Communications DivisionThis series contains mainly black and white photographs of events, buildings, places, official visits, conferences, artworks, Creative Arts Fellows, staff and students. Many of the photographs were taken by staff photographers for use in The ANU Reporter, and the issue in which a photograph was used is often noted on the reverse. The photographs are held in envelopes organised by subjects, though this is not consistent. For instance, all photographs used in issues of The ANU Reporter for 1996–2000 are held in envelopes labelled ‘ANU Reporter photographs’ rather than by individual subjects.
Office of the RegistrarMinutes of council, various panels and committees; correspondence; constitution and rules; office files re anniversary, annual and motor show dinners; photographs, press cuttings, memorial boards and printed material.
Chamber of Automotive Industries of New South Wales IncorporatedIndustrial files (1920s-1930s, 1952-1987), appeal books (1958), subject files (1907, 1913, 1947-1987), printed material, press cuttings and audio records (21 January 1948).
Musicians' Union of AustraliaThe papers include notes and theses on Physics and correspondence with other physicists, travel diaries, appointment diaries as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the Australian National University, correspondence relating to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, correspondence and other papers as Chairman of the Universities Council of the Tertiary Education Commission, invitations, cassette tapes of his ANU farewell function, a radio interview and an address by Lord Rutherford, photographs of ANU buildings, functions and staff, and personal correspondence with ANU staff and professional contacts.
Dunbar, David Noel Ferguson