Series 327 - Papers of Robert Parker

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AU ANUA 327

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Papers of Robert Parker

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  • 1951 - 1976 (Creation)

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0.3 m (1 type 1 and 1 type 2 box)

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(1915 - 2002)

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Robert Stewart Parker was born on 19 February 1915 in Artarmon, New South Wales. He received his Masters in Economics from the University of Sydney. In 1938 he was appointed Lecturer in Public Administration and Secretary to the Council of the Canberra University College. From 1939 to 1945 he was Lecturer in Public Administration at Victoria University College, Wellington, before returning to Canberra University College as Lecturer in Political Science. From 1949-1954 Parker was Head of the School of Public Administration at Victoria University, New Zealand. Parker began his association with the Australian National University as a Research Fellow in the Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences from 19 October 1947 to 24 February 1949, then Reader (Public Administration) from 1 March 1954. He was Professor and Head of ANU's Political Science program in the Research School of Social Sciences from 1962 until his retirement in 1978. He was a member of the 1957 Committee of Inquiry into Commonwealth Public Service Recruitment (Boyer Committee), the Interim Council of the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea (1962-69) and the Papua New Guinea Public Services Arbitration Tribunal (1972-73). Parker died on 31 July 2002.

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The files relate to Professor Parker’s membership of the Board of the Institute for Advanced Studies and his administration of the Department of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences. The files have been divided into two sequences on this basis as ANU or RSSS files. The files contain correspondence and memos, copies of minutes and comments by other staff on various proposals.

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Single numbers with ANU and RSSS prefixes imposed

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      Prepared by Maggie Shapley on 27 January 2009

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