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Peace Courier
AU NBAC S726 · Serial · 1979-2003 (with gaps)

Sydney. Official publication of the Australian Peace Committee for Detente, Disarmament and Development

AU NBAC H24 · Deposit · 1985 - 2014

Minutes of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations and affiliated members, correspondence files, National and International conference programs and papers, policy files, legal files, National and International project files, Government and Non-Government liaison, medical research and treatments programs, educational resources, publications, audiovisual and printed material.

Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
Audrey McDonald papers
AU NBAC N444 · Deposit

This deposit has not yet been processed.

McDonald, Audrey
Hans Pillig's papers
AU ANUA 714 · Series · 1949 - 2013

This series contains various cetificates of Hans Pillig's qualifications, drawings from projects he worked on, photographs of him, his colleagues and some of their designs, and correspondence.

Pillig, Hans
Rhys Gardner papers
AU ANUA 780 · Series · 1990 - 2000

This series contains field notebooks from AMRAD expeditions to Kaironk Valley, Papua New Guinea, slides, correspondence and photographs.

Gardner, Rhys Owen
AU ANUA 439 · Series · 1951 - 1969

The drawings are for furniture particularly for University House, but there are also photographs of chairs and other furniture at University House, the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Bruce Hall. Two stained glass designs by G Kellock of Ballarat have been retained though their significance is unclear.

Ward, Frederick
AU ANUA 292 · Series · 1988 - 2000

Many of the files relate to the Library Committee, including minutes, agenda and working papers as well as other administrative matters.

University Library
AU ANUA 240 · Series · 1974 - 1997

This collection is of photographs, press cuttings and audiovisual material from the North Australia Research Unit (NARU), an ANU facility located in Darwin. It comprises mostly photographic prints, with some negatives, in five albums, two scrapbooks of material about NARU as well as the Northern Territory generally, and two films taken in 1974 (after Cyclone Tracy) and 1976, along with an audiotape commentary. The photographs range in subject from official visits and fieldwork to social functions, and many are not individually listed.

ANU North Australia Research Unit
AU NBAC N437 · Deposit · c. 1900 - 2019

Papers of Mavis and Alec Robertson relating to their work, activism and interests in journalism, communism, women’s liberation, the anti-Vietnam war movement, Papua New Guinea independence, the peace and anti-nuclear movement, Chile, and superannuation. Material includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks and travel diaries, photographs, speeches, grey literature such as reports and travel ephemera. Also includes some papers of Alec Robertson (Senior) and some family history material.

Some books and pamphlets are unprocessed (as at Oct 2022).

Robertson, Mavis
AU NBAC N430 · Deposit · c. 1925 - 2016

Includes Operative Painters’ and Decorators’ Union (OPDU) and Building Workers’ Industrial Union (BWIU) membership records 1950 - 1984, meeting minutes, rules, and enterprise agreements negotiated by the union. There are also papers relating to branch elections, amalgamations and finances; disputes, including some legal files; occupational safety including work site safety, drug and alcohol use and asbestos; training; national and international union and political campaigns including the 1998 maritime dispute; and publications, photographs, CDs, DVDs, videos and posters. Some material relates to infrastructure projects and social issues in the Australian Capital Territory including New Parliament House, the Canberra Casino, self-government, school closures, Old Canberra Hospital, the Folk Festival, and the proposed very fast train.

Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union
AU NBAC S187 · Serial · 1949 - 2005

Melbourne. The official organ of the Shop Distributive & Allied Employees Association
Issues held: vol. 30 no. 5 (May 1949), vol. 41 no. 7 (Jul 1960) - vol.42 no. 9 (Sep 1961), vol.44 no. 2 (Jun 1963), vol. 44 no. 6 (Oct-Nov-Dec 1963) - vol. 44 no. 7 (Jan 1964), vol. 44 no. 9 (Apr-May 1964) - vol.45 no. 6 (Nov-Dec 1965), vol.45 no. 17 (Jan-Feb 1966) - vol. 45 no. 68 (Sep 1977), vol. 45 no. 72 (Sep 1978) - vol 52. No. 1 (Mar 1988), vol. 52 no. 3 (Sep 1988) - vol. 55 no. 3 (Sep 1991), vol. 56 no.1 (Mar 1992) - vol. 57 no. 3 (Sep 1993), vol. 58 no. 1 (Mar 1994) - vol. 59 no. 1 (Apr 1995), vol. 59 no. 3 (Sep 1995) - vol. 63 no. 3 (Spring 1999), vol. 64 no. 1 (Autumn 2000) - vol 68 no. 4 (Summer 2004), vol. 69 no. 3 - vol. 69 no. 4 (Summer 2005)

Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association
Bill Tully papers
AU NBAC N157 · Deposit · 1919; 1961 -1986

This is a collection of records representing the social and political issues influencing Bill Tully from 1973 to 1986. Includes his East Timor Files which contains material relating to East Timor and the campaign for independence; correspondence, minutes and media releases of the Australian East Timor Association and the Campaign for an Independent East Timor; subject files on various issues and a large collection of press cuttings (indexed); radio transcripts for Asia Pacific News and Writers Workshop, and printed material.

Tully, Bill
Papers of Quentin Gibson
AU ANUA 4 · Series · 1945

The 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 Boyce
ANU Design Unit Drawings
AU ANUA 779 · Series · c. 1950s - 1970s

This is a collection of drawings from the ANU Design Unit for furniture items used in various ANU buildings.

ANU Design Unit
AU ANUA 184 · Series · 1979 - 2003

The publications relate to the Institute of the Arts (ITA) and predecessors the Canberra Institute of the Arts (CITA), the Canberra School of Music and the Canberra School of Art. There are also publications relating to the Drill Hall Gallery.

Institute of the Arts
AU NBAC N126 · Deposit · 1884 - 1987

These records were created during the operation of the Goondi Mill from its commencement in 1884 to its closure in 1987. The deposit consists of general letters received 1890-1962, and sent to Head Office 1884-1963; staff and private letters received from Head Office 1890-1963, and sent by Goondi to Head Office 1891-1960; clippings of Technical Field correspondence sent by Head Office to Goondi 1936-1965, copies of Technical Field letters sent to Head Office 1932-1968; copies of cane variety trial reports 1939-1955; engineering notes 1885-1966; chemical inspection notes 1925-1964; manufacture inspection notes 1913-1940; Mill Inspectors notes 1901-1965; correspondence with the Water Quality Council of Queensland; tables showing crop yields 1898-1972; farm production register and farm ownership registers 1931-1987; miscellaneous records re employment of Kanaka labour, World War II war service land settlement scheme; photographs of the mill and staff.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited
AU ANUA 116 · Series · 1959 - 1995

The visitor’s guides were originally booklets but then became leaflets in which the campus map is the dominant feature. There are also some leaflets about artworks, buildings and trees on campus.

Australian National University
AU NBAC Z149 · Deposit · 1972 - 1988

This deposit contains correspondence files, reports, rules, minutes of Executive meetings (1974-1983) and Women's Committee, submissions to government, reports, printed material and material relating to the registration of the Union of Australian College Academics.

Federation of College Academics
AU ANUA 491 · Series · c. 1950s-2000s

Includes photographs, slides, negatives and transparencies of the ANU campus, buildings, staff, students, visitors and events; photographs and slides of the Canberra region; VHS, Betacam and cassette tape recordings of ANU events and promotions.

ANU Marketing and Communications Division
AU NBAC Z626 · Deposit

Aperture cards of maps and plans of CSR properties and machinery. Includes plan indexes for Pyrmont Refinery. All maps and plans are catalogued using CSR Limited's original cataloguing numbers. Indexes are available in box 43. Please note not all plans listed in indexes in box 43 are present in boxes 1-42.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited
AU NBAC Z282 · Deposit · 1960 - 1997

Secretary's files (Harold Souter and Peter Nolan, see also N21, N68 and N147), files of Assistant Secretaries, Industrial Officers, Research Officers, Legal Officers, Social Welfare Officers, Ethnic Affairs Officers, International Affairs Officer, Working Women's Centre and Library, audiovisual material including training slides and films and video and audio recordings of congresses, photographs of congresses, Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and other officials, posters, and badges.

Australian Council of Trade Unions
AU NBAC 5 · Deposit · 1885 - 1950

The deposit consists of station accounts and annual reports (for the following stations: Boolcarrol; Brookong; Cambridge Downs; Currango; Elderslie; Kilcummin; Manuka; Mount Margaret; Normanby; The Overflow; Panjee; Piangobla; Springfield;Thackaringa; Tiltagara; Tindarey; and Wambrook).
The station papers for Boolcarrol; Brookong; Kilcummin; Manuka; Normanby; Piangobla; and Thackaringa stations are a miscellaneous collection of letters, memos and notes, often including statistical comparisons between various stations, or between various years on the one station. Includes photographs and a map of "Terrick Terrick" station and extracts from "The Central Queensland Herald" re Blackall Centenary 1946. The material in this deposit was held at the Australian Head Office in Melbourne.

The Australian Estates Company Limited
AU NBAC M2 · Deposit · 1889 - 1940

Microfilm copy of station annual reports, shearing and lambing returns, land and stock statements. The material in this deposit was held at the Australian Head Office in Melbourne.

The Australian Estates Company Limited
AU NBAC M87 · Deposit · 1894 - 1912

Microfilm copy of records held by the company in Melbourne:

  1. Reports and accounts 1895: comparative results of sugar estates operations, 1894 - 1895
  2. Valuation of freehold and leasehold properties 1909: class V sugar estates, pp. 55-61
  3. Mackay Estates annual reports 1901 - 1912
  4. Kalamia Estate annual reports 1903 - 1912
The Australian Estates Company Limited
Sigrid McCausland papers
AU NBAC N382 · Deposit · 1980 - 2016

The papers document Sigrid McCausland's contributions to the archives profession in Australia over thirty years including employment as the University Archivist at the Australian National University at a time that the Noel Butlin Archives Centre was threatened with closure, as the first Education Officer for the Australian Society of Archivists, and as an academic at Charles Sturt University undertaking research and teaching archives administration and where she completed a Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching. Activities for the Australian Society of Archivists, the Archive Forum (relating to the National Film and Sound Archive), the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and the International Council on Archives include conference presentations, workshops, articles, book reviews and submissions. Research files for articles and book chapters are mainly on archival access, advocacy, public programs and archival education. Project files relate to the review of the Statement of Knowledge for Recordkeeping Professionals in conjunction with the Records Management Association of Australasia, work undertaken for Australian Unity on their records, and a review of the Community Heritage Grants scheme. A series of notebooks from 1999 to 2015 record notes on conferences, seminars, lectures and meetings she attended. A small quantity of personal correspondence and photographs of archivists events are included.

McCausland, Sigrid Kristina
AU ANUA 784 · Series · c. 1947 - 2015

Student resident membership cards; alumni registrations; Uroboros Yearbooks; minutes and agenda papers; correspondence; organisational and operational papers; 50th anniversary papers; newspaper clippings; Halls of Residence upgrade papers; Student Development Committee papers; infrastructure and maintenance papers; summaries of financial results; surveys; reports; building plans; photographs; ephemera; historical objects.

Bruce Hall, Australian National University
Matthew Spriggs papers
AU ANUA 742 · Series · 1954 - 2021

In addition to the Spriggs papers, this donation also contained the papers of Richard Shutler, Les Groube, and Aubrey Parke, which have been removed and are now ANUA 765, 766, and 767, respectively.

Spriggs, Matthew
Aubrey Parke papers
AU ANUA 767 · Series · 1925 - 2007
Parke, Aubrey Laurence
Helen Groger-Wurm papers
AU ANUA 260 · Series · 1921 - 2005

Diaries, 1931-2002
Film and theatre albums, 1932-1990s
Personal papers, 1921-2001
Large format material, 1920s-1982
Correspondence, 1956-2005
University research material, 1940s-1950s
Maps
Research materials, 1950s-2000
MAGNT Aboriginal Art Collection, 1960s-1970s
National Museum of Australia catalogue, 1992
Sound recordings, 1960s
Indigenous photographs, 1950s-1960s
Photograph albums, 1923-2005
Slides, 1954-1970
Movie films, 1960-1974
Super 8 films, 1974-1988
Videos, 1990-2000
Obituaries and condolences (for SA Wurm), 2001-2002

Groger-Wurm, Helen
ANU Press releases
AU ANUA 105 · Series · 1958 - 1981

This is a master set of press releases which were called ‘For the Press’, ‘Information for News Media’ and ‘Media Releases’ at various times. Most of the annual binders are indexed. The early press releases include a small amount of related correspondence, draft releases, press cuttings, the text of addresses given to special ceremonies and honour citations. Releases for 1999–2000 are not included and there are gaps for 2001–2002. Some press releases for 1968 are indexed but missing from the folder.

Office of the Registrar
AU ANUA 302 · Series · c. 1913 - 1915

A series glass plate negatives and photographs showing scenes of Kiribati and Rabaul.

Doutch, Frederick William
AU ANUA 24 · Series · 1972

The 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 James
Ralph Bulmer papers
AU ANUA 763 · Series · 1928 - 1988

Series includes fieldwork notebooks, correspondence, slides and draft papers related to Ralph Bulmer's work with the Kyaka and Kalam people of Papua New Guinea, his work on ethnobotany, ethnozoology and works with Ian Saem Majnep, a Kalam naturalist. Teaching notes cover his time at Auckland University, with a focus on classification systems.

Bulmer, Ralph
ANU publications
AU ANUA 788 · Series · 1963 - 2024

These publications were produced by different units of the University and transferred to the Archives at various times. This series has not yet been digitised.

Australian National University
Sir John Gunther papers
AU ANUA 321 · Series · 1947 - 1984

Part 1 - These papers mainly relate to Gunther’s time as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), and include some papers relating to Gunther’s time as the Director of Public Health and Assistant Administrator in Papua New Guinea. The main subject categories are:

  1. Political papers dealing with the period before independence in Papua New Guinea (folders 1-13)
  2. Political papers pertaining to independence (folders 14-17)
  3. Economic papers – Waigani papers (folders 18-20)
  4. Economic papers – Bougainville papers (folders 32-34)
  5. Education papers (folders 35-110)
  6. Personal papers (folders 112-118)
  7. Administrative papers (folders 119-136)

Part 2 - These papers document many aspects of Gunther’s administration of public health in Papua New Guinea (folders 137-239). They include Gunther’s files on various health issues, including malaria, leprosy, scrub typhus, nutrition, kuru and tuberculosis. Also includes papers on medical education, the Mount Lamington volcanic eruption and the South Pacific Commission.

Gunther, John Thomson
AU ANUA 741 · Series · 1995 - 2020

Largely consists of material on HIV/AIDS in the Asia/Pacific region. Also contains materials on other health and governmental issues. See box list for more details.

Eves, Richard
Papers of Gordon Thomas
AU ANUA 584 · Series · 1900 - 2004

This collection of documents and images relating to Gordon Thomas's time in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea includes correspondence with the Department of External Territories regarding persons lost on the Montevideo Maru and proclamations from the Chief of the Japanese Army during the Japanese occuptaion of Rabaul. Photographs from the 1910s and 1930s are of people and places in German New Guinea.

Thomas, Edward Llewellyn Gordon
AU ANUA 312 · Series · 1961 - 2008

Paper files containing research material on people included in and considered for inclusion in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Includes research notes; copies of birth, death and marriage certificates; drafts of articles; correspondence between authors and editors and corrigenda.

National Centre for Biography
AU ANUA 813 · Series · 1964 - 2024

Awards; school and university reports; papers relating to work at the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences; lecture notes; book reviews; book drafts and research material; reports; conference papers; correspondence; Australian Seismological Reference Model (AuSREM) papers; reprints; magazines; photographs.

Kennett, Brian Leslie Norman