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UQFL241 Ted and Eva Bacon Papers

Size 17 boxes, 3 albums, 1 parcel

Contents Correspondence, minutes, typescript articles, reports, circular letters, photographs.

Date range 1936 - 1993. Bulk of collection from 1970s and 1980s.

Biography Edwin Alexander (Ted) and Eva Bacon were both members of the Communist Party of Australia. Eva Bacon was also a member of the Union of Australian Women. She was especially active in women's and peace issues. Ted Bacon was on various CPA bodies and worked for Aboriginal rights.

Notes Mostly open access; some restrictions. Related material can be found in UQFL234 Communist Party of Australia (Queensland Branch) Collection.

Box 1 Peace [Comparison between 1966 Conference on S.E. Asia and Australia, and 1963 Conference on Peace and the People’s Needs]. 6 leaves handwritten [by Ted Bacon?] What way out in Vietnam? 2 versions, varying numbers of handwritten and typed leaves, handwriting of Ted Bacon (?) Letter to Ted [Bacon] from Joyce. Undated. 2 leaves typescript. Party work.

Leaflets Handwritten note: Assorted leaflets. 1 leaf. Plastic bag with handwritten sticker: Assorted leaflets. ‘The arms race - humanity at risk’. 4 pages printed. Application form to attend the Australian People’s Disarmament Conference, 1978. Bombed in Vietnam. 4 pages printed. Communist Party of Australia. China must get out of Vietnam, stop the war from spreading. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, dated 1979 in ballpoint. Issued by the Hands Of[f] Vietnam Committee. Rally. The Communist Party is behind this Moratorium - way behind. 4 pages printed. Authorised by B. Laver. Dissension. Conscription and you! 2 pages duplicated typescript. The Conscientious Objectors’ Advisory Bureau. Dokter, Ben. Letter. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Possibility of aliens being conscripted into the Australian Forces. ______

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El Salvador urgent appeal. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, dated 7/4/82 in ballpoint. Committee in Solidarity with Central American and the Caribbean. Free film evening. 1 leaf duplicated, hand drawn. Anti-nuclear. Frigates out of the Gulf! 1 leaf printed. Gulf Action Coalition. Give me a hand but don’t manipulate me. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, dated 7/4/82 in ballpoint. Red and Black Bookshop. Guns & money, written by an individual member of the People for Direct Democracy. 2 pages printed. Handwritten date: May Day 1981. Hiroshima Nagasaki never again! Declare Brisbane nuclear free. 4 pages printed. Hiroshima Day march, 3 Aug [1991]. Home on the range. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, dated 7/4/82. University Movement Against Uranium Mining, etc. Film evening. Indochina: a crucial stage. 2 pages duplicated typescript, doodles in ballpoint. Communist League. Korea divided. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, dated April 7th 82 in ballpoint. Seminar on the re- unification of Korea. A message to the women of Queensland from the Union of Australian Women. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Menzies’ Conscription Bill. No foreign bases in Australia. 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated April 1982 in ballpoint. Communist Party of Australia. Non-aligned Australia. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Australian Independence Movement. Pacific Countdown -- 9..8..7..6.. 1 leaf printed. C. Gifford, Communist Party candidate for Brisbane. Philippines National Day, June 12 [1978?]. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Proposals for a further phase of moratorium actions. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. C. Gifford. Queensland no to nuclear bomb tests. 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated June 22 1972. Qld Trade Union Anti-Nuclear Lobby. 4 pages printed, dated November 1976. Qld T. & L.C. call Support Moratorium. 2 pages duplicated typescript. June 30th stop work. Rally for peace. 4 pages printed, 1991 added in ballpoint. Peace Festival, Musgrave Park, 24 March 1991 Stop the Gulf War. 4 pages printed. New Left Party. Stop this war! 2 pages duplicated typescript. Socialist Party of Australia. The Time to act against nuclear war is now. 1 leaf printed. Australians for Nuclear Disarmament. To all in the anti-war movement. 2 pages duplicated typescript, doodles in ballpoint, dated June 3rd 1971. Labour Action Group. US hands off El Salvador. 2 pages printed. Committee in Solidarity with Central America and the Caribbean. Public meeting. Vietnam: an open letter to Mr. J.G. Gorton, Prime Minister. 4 pages printed. Trade Union Committee, A.I.C.D. Vietnam . . . ‘is it freedom we’re fighting for?’ 2 pages printed. ALP. What is C B W? 4 pages printed. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. ______

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Women! Would you like to work with The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom? 2 pages duplicated typescript. Recruitment. Words for peace song piece. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. ABC-TV . . . 7.30 Report, 21/3/86.

Miscellaneous Commonwealth of Australia. Defence Force Protection Act 1967; no. 57 of 1967. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Manila folders: one with name E. Bacon, and another name and address; one painted by Anne White for National Committee Meeting of Union of Australian Women, with name E. Bacon. Note to Eva (?) written on press clipping. Note to ring re film, written on back of torn page of article on immigration. Public statement. 2 pages duplicated typescript, form at back not filled in. Declaration of conscientious objection to the Vietnam War, and (illegal) support for the Liberation Red Cross in Vietnam. 196*. Self-adhesive labels: Ban nuke ship visits; Stop uranium mining; Stop French tests. Two labels used.

Organisations and Persons Anglican Church. General Synod. Report of the Select Committee appointed to consider Australian participation in the war in Vietnam and its implications. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Anti-War Conference, Sydney, 1971. Aims. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Aims. Strategy. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Aim is same as previous item. Anti-War Conference, Brisbane, 1972. Sponsorship list. 1 leaf typescript, area for names and addresses not filled in. Programme: ‘Peace and the needs of people’. 3 pages duplicated typescript. 2 copies, one with name E. Bacon on front and correction and note on third page, another with doodle on back. Two pieces of paper with initials of attending delegates listed in handwriting. Thornton, N.S. Australia and imperialism: summary. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Barclay, G. Precis of paper on Australian defence policy. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Dobson, Ted. Moral law v. Law of expediency. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Recommendations from Anti-War Conference. 2 pages duplicated typescript. ASPAC 1990 Conference. 1 leaf printed. A Conference for Peace and Disarmament, Security and Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific Region. Association for International Co-operation & Disarmament (N.S.W.) Constitution. Adopted 1965. 10 p. Draft constitution. Duplicated typescript, pp. 11-19 only of a document. Omega: a nuclear threat to Australia, to world peace. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Press release. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Association proscribed by NSW Executive of the ALP. ______

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Press statement, 29/9/66. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. AICD Resource Centre. U.S. Agency for International Development. U.S. Program and Project Presentation to the Congress for Fiscal year 1972. 9 pages duplicated typescript and printing. August Conference to End the Vietnam War, Brisbane, 1968. 2 programmes, 8 pages duplicated typescript, one with inserts: Speaker’s slip; Reminder of film; Guidance notes for participants; Alterations to locations of Group meetings. Calwell, Arthur A. Notes for speech. 2 copies, each 6 leaves duplicated typescript, different typewriters. Devillers, Philippe. The fear of peace. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Townsend, Simon. The human focal point. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Messages to conference. 4 leaves typescript. Davis, S. Australia’s future in Asia. 2 copies, 3 leaves duplicated typescript, one with handwritten notes. Tran Van Dinh. Preparing the way for coalition. 3 leaves duplicated typescript, reprinted from New Republic, 22 Jun 1968. Townsend, Simon. Notes from speech. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Concensus [sic] reports: Vietnam - G group. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Vietnam - P group. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Vietnam - Y group. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Liberties - G group. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Conscription - P group. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Liberties - Y group. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Religion and war. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Standards - combined P and G groups. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Standards - Y group. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Effect of war on living standards. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. War and the creative arts. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. The New youth protest - first session. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Trade unionists session. 2 pages duplicated typescript. New youth protest - second session. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Anti-war movement. 2 pages duplicated typescript. First statistical report. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Finance. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Pledge not filled in. Manila folder. Stencilled symbols front and back, name E. Bacon written on front. Australian & New Zealand Congress for International Co-operation & Disarmament and Festival of the Arts, Melbourne, 1959. Declaration of hope. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Declaration [of the] Trade Union Conference. 2 leaves duplicated typescript.

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Findings [of the] Education Conference. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Resolution of Artists & Writers Conference. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Statement [of] the Christian Churchmen’s Conference. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Statement from the Youth Conference. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Statement of findings of the Citizens’ Conference. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Statement of findings [of the] Municipal Conference. 1 leaf duplicated typescript Who stops peace . . . in Vietnam? 4 pages printed.. Australian Coalition for Disarmament and Peace. Statement of the ACDP National Workshop, 1990. 2 pages photocopied typescript. Australian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament, Sydney, 1964. Congress statement. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Extracts from The Universal declaration of human rights having particular bearing on the Australian Congress for International Co-operation & Disarmament. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Information for Congress delegates. 10 leaves duplicated typescript. Leaflet : A call to all workers. 4 pages printed. Programme. 7 leaves duplicated typescript. Educationists’ conference. Report. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Cranswick, Bishop. Paper delivered to the First Plenary Session. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Gale, B. Summary of paper on Australia’s relations with Asia. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Hudson, Hugh. Maldistribution of the world’s wealth & its effect on world peace. 13 pages duplicated typescript. Burton, J.W. ‘Peace research’ and ‘international relations’. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Latona, W.J. Peace research. 5 leaves duplicated typescript. Richards, Jean. Peace research & international co-operation - the role of the individual and the churchman. 6 pages duplicated typescript. Moritaki, Ichiro. Speech made at seminar on International co-operation at citizen level. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Pauling, Linus. Science and peace. 2 copies, one 11 pages duplicated typescript; another, untitled, 11 leaves duplicated typescript. Chavrot, Lucien. Seminar on French tests and the partial test ban treaty. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Prichard, M.F. Lloyd. The population explosion. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Decisions of Academics’ conference. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Report of opinions of Churchmen’s conference. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Citizens’ conference. Procedure for findings. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Recommendations regarding management and procedure. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Dickie, A.M. Speech given to Citizens’ conference. 2 pages duplicated typescript.

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Citizens’ conference draft findings. 5 pages duplicated typescript, with corrections in ink. Findings. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Commission no. 1; no. 2; no. 3; no. 4; no. 5. Reports on discussions. No. 1, 2 pages duplicated typescript, others 1 leaf duplicated typescript; no. 5 has correction in ink Commission no. 1; no. 2; no. 3; no. 4; no. 5. Reports on discussions. Nos. 1 and 4, 2 pages duplicated typescript, others 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Trade Union conference. Programme. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Copy of speeches by representatives from Japan. Ioka, Daiji. 1 leaf duplicated typescript; Tatsuta, Tatsuhiko. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Resolution. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Writers’ seminars. Programme. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Report of writers’ conference. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Youth conference. Decisions. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Youth looks at Asia. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Lawes, A.G.H. Paths to peace. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Queensland Sponsoring Committee. Leaflet. 4 pages printed. Recruiting support. State sponsoring committees. Leaflet. 4 pages printed. Recruiting support. Circular letter, 17 Nov 1964. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Financial statement, requesting contributions. Circular letter, 18 Nov 1964. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Financial statement, requesting contributions, not the same as previous. Australian Democrats. AIDEX update. 10 pages printed. Name on front Jo. Australian Labor Party. Officers’ report ‘B’ [on] Association for International Co-operation and Disarmament (N.S.W.) 67/36, 24.2.67. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Officers’ report ‘C’ [on] Association for International Co-operation and Disarmament (N.S.W.) 67/54, 10.3.67. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. Australian Nuclear Disarmament Conference, Melbourne, 1985. Bulletin no. 1, May 1985. 5 pages photocopied typescript. Bernal, J.D. Memorandum on the structure, organisation and working methods of the World Council of Peace. 7 pages duplicated typescript. Gollan, W.E. Comments on Professor Bernal’s statement on the structure, organisation and working methods of the World Council of Peace. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation (Queensland Branch). Vietnam. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Blake, Eugene Carson. Ecumenism and peace. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Reprinted from The Vietnam war : a Christian perspective. Burns, Bryant. Circular letter to Supporters of the Rally for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 6 Jun 1990. Campaign against Nuclear Power. Annual report, 1979. 7 pages duplicated typescript.

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Chairperson’s Annual report for 1977/1978. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Circular letters : 10/1/76, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, attached Sustenance Fund contribution form (not filled in); Undated, 1 leaf photocopied typescript. In the event of nuclear catastrophe. 2 pages duplicated typescript and print. Join the Campaign against Nuclear Power. 4 pages printed, dated 7/4/82 in ballpoint. March on Labor Day, May 5, no year. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Petition for a nuclear free Pacific. 1 leaf printed. Not filled in. Pledge form. 1 leaf printed. Not filled in. Stop uranium mining and enrichment. 2 pages printed. Rally 29 Mar 1979. C.I.C.D. Anti-War Centre. National Liaison Committee. Minutes of meeting, 11 and 12 Nov 1972. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : AICD - statement of purpose, 2 pages duplicated typescript. Minutes of meeting, 11 and 12 Feb 1973. 7 pages duplicated typescript. Visit by Korean Peace Committee delegation. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Committee against Racism. Circular letter, undated. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Requesting contributions. Circular letter, 8 Nov 1971. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, unrelated note in ink. Aboriginal affairs. Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in Greece. Information bulletin. no. 1 1967. 22 pages duplicated typescript. Extracts from other publications. Committee of World Peace. Circular letter to Councillors in Australia, 15 Feb 1973. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, handwritten note.. Various visits and costs. Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament. Notes on proposed conference, 1973. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Sons and daughters. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Film for hire. Ex-Services Human Rights Association of Australia. Application form. 2 pages duplicated typescript. An invitation to join. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Figgis, Penny. Notes on environmentalists and the Federal Government. 4 leaves photocopied typescript. Advice on lobbying. Attached : Photocopied article from Peace Action. Imperialism - a national symposium. Sydney, 1972. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Proposed programme and application form. Programme. 3 pages duplicated typescript, marks in ballpoint. Message from the National United Front of Kampuchea Royal Government of National Unity of Cambodia Ministry for the Coordination of Efforts in the Struggle for National Liberation. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Brown, Michael Barratt. Theories of imperialism (summary only). 2 pages duplicated typescript. Caldwell, Malcolm. The energy of imperialism, and the imperialism of energy. 26 pages of duplicated typescript.

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Baker, John. Communications on imperialism. 15 pages photocopied or duplicated typescript, name Mrs Bacon on front. Moriya, Fumio. Imperialism today and its feature. 6 pages duplicated typescript. O’Hair, Greg. Soviet imperialism. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Kolko, Gabriel. The Nixon administration’s strategy in Indochina - 1972. 15 pages duplicated typescript. Arrowsmith, J.C. The motor industry : classic product of imperialism? 12 leaves duplicated typescript. Handwritten notes for report on Symposium [by Eva Bacon?] 9 leaves, on back of torn leaves of duplicated typescript. International Liaison Office / Bureau de Liaison International in support of the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament. Circular letter, Feb 1982. 2 leaves photocopied typescript. Office opened, provisions for non-government attenders. Attached : Form for delegations to request accommodation and consideration for special needs, 1 leaf photocopied typescript, not filled in; Calendar of parallel activities, 1 leaf photocopied typescript, events in May and June 1982. Circular Letter, May 1982. 2 leaves photocopied typescript, some underlining in ballpoint. Organization of public support, applications to attend. International Peace Bureau. Circular letter, undated : Security Council resolution 678 violated international law. 3 pages photocopied typescript, including photocopy of press cutting, dated 1991 in ballpoint. Gulf War. International War Crimes Tribunal. Verdict of the Stockholm session. 11 pages duplicated typescript. An invitation to the International Year of Peace 1986. Photocopy of video cover. Kirby, M.D. The Malaysia issue. 6 pages duplicated typescript. Macdonald, Michael. Peace report. 2 pages duplicated typescript. International Year of Peace, 1986. Moore, G. Stanley. Wellington oasis : a report on the Wellington Peace, Power and Politics in Asia Conference, 1968. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Name on front Jean Fielding, RETURN. NFIP Conference : report from Bev Symons, NFIP. 6 leaves photocopied handwriting. Handwritten at top : CPA, E. Bacon. Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific. Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Committee (Qld). Submission to the Sub-committee on Disarmament & Arms Control of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. 5 leaves photocopied typescript, with note For Peace Activist File handwritten on front. Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific Co-ordinating Committee. Circular letter. 1 leaf photocopied handwriting. Attached : The Pacific - nuclear flashpoint of the future, a conference proposal. 2 pages photocopied typescript, with handwritten addition on original. N.F.I.P. proposal to lobby South Pacific Forum. 4 pages photocopied typescript. O’Brien, Phil. Report on World Congress for Disarmament & Peace, Moscow, 1962. 29 pages duplicated typescript. Cover title : Activity for peace : from Brisbane to Canberra via Moscow and the World Congress for complete & general disarmament & peace. Olga Snelling remembered. 9 leaves photocopied typescript. ______

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People for Nuclear Disarmament. The Soviet Union & nuclear disarmament. 4 pages photocopied print. Nat. Consultation Melbourne : Sydney collective, Bob Makerson. 6 leaves photocopied handwriting. Handwritten at top : CPA (crossed through), E. Bacon. 1986, disarmament negotiations between the superpowers. Reports. 4 leaves photocopied handwriting, from 8 original pages. Handwritten : CPA, E. Bacon. Reports on work in Wollongong, Perth, Victoria, South Australia, Sydney. Political conversations between Saigon and PRG will start near Paris March 20. 2 leaves photocopied typescript, with handwritten corrections on original. Ponomaryev, B. International communist movement at a new stage. 20 pages duplicated typescript. Translated and abridged from Kommunist, no. 15, Oct 1958. Queensland Peace Committee for International Co-operation and Disarmament. Annual meeting, 1969. Executive report. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Annual General meeting, 1971. Executive report. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Annual meeting, 1971. Report. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Annual report, 1967. 6 pages duplicated typescript. Better to fight them over there than here? 1 leaf printed. Burchett, Wilfred. U.S. withdraws from Cambodia but not from war. 2 pages duplicated print. Moratorium action, Sep 1971. cbw : say no to death. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Chemical and biological warfare. Circular letter, 23 Jun 1972. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Postponed business. Circular letter, undated. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Meetings to come. Constitution, amended 31 Aug 1967. 5 pages duplicated typescript. The cry of the children. Why are we in Vietnam? 12 pages duplicated typescript. Decisions of the Geneva Conference on the problem of restoring peace in Indo-China - 1954. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Do you know? . . . 2 pages printed. Executive report, annual meeting, 1968. 7 leaves duplicated typescript, a few corrections in ink. Extract from AICD monthly news letter, Dec 1967. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Financial statement for year ending February 1971. 2 pages duplicated typescript. His life is children : Dr Benjamin Spock. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Instant facts : Geneva, America Vietnam. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Invitation to join. 2 pages printed. Letter to Mr A.H. Higgins, Secretary, Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, 29 Jun 1973. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Submission against Omega bases. Letter to The Secretary of ? asking for help for conscientious objectors to the Vietnam war, 5 Dec 1976. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Letter to the General Secretary, U.N.O., 28 Sep 1965. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Attached : List of war toys, 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

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Membership application form and envelope. Peace contingent, Labor Day procession 1967. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. The phoney withdrawal. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Professor P. Devillers - biographical details. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Sponsoring lecture by Devillers. Radiation pollution across the Pacific? Information sheet. 2 pages printed. Report of the Annual General Meeting, 1968. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Report of Executive meeting, 26 Feb 1968. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Report of General Meeting, 7th Dec 1967. 2 pages duplicated typescript, one correction in ink. Report of Special General Meeting, 29 Apr 1986. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Toowoomba atom bombed : headline of Telegraph, date : the proverbial day after tomorrow. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Omega bases. Tour of Queensland by Mrs N. Chalmers, Secretary, Nov 1965. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Urgent - to Executive members. Draft statement on China’s nuclear explosion. 2 pages duplicated typescript. QVMCCC. Act to end Indo-China war now. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Announcement of next meeting, 24 Jan 1971. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Verso : Financial statement, 4 Feb to 26 Nov 1970. Announcement of next meeting, 17 May 1971; 12 Jul 1971; 10 Oct 1971. 2 pages duplicated typescript, each. Circular letter, undated (Apr 1971), from Hugh Hamilton. 1 leaf printed typescript, dated 1978 in ballpoint. Funds needed. Circular letter, 8 May 1971. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Problems in the organisation. Decision. General meeting 3 Jun 1971. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, with doodles. Indochina - will the war go nuclear? 2 pages duplicated typescript. A message to concerned people & organisations. Circular letter. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Minutes of the meetings held 26 Feb [no year]; 26 Nov 1970; 6 May 1971. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, each. U.S. out now! 2 pages duplicated typescript. Rally 20 Jan 1973. Vietnam background . . . 2 pages duplicated typescript, May 1971. Mobilisation 30 June. The war is not over! 2 pages printed. Rally for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament. Circular letter to All participants in the 1982 Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, 27 Feb 1983, from Greg Weir, Research Assistant to Senator George Georges. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Proposed rally and march. Attached : Photocopy of leaflet, 2 pages photocopied print, details of rally, request for financial support. Circular letter, review committee on uranium mining meeting in Brisbane. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Attached : Fewster, Alan. ‘Ministers differ over ALP policy on uranium’, photocopied from Sydney Telegraph, 9 Apr 1989, onto back of letter; Lowe, Ian. ‘Time to enrich our engineers’, 2 pages photocopied from Australian Society, Apr 1989.

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Hiroshima Day Co-ordinating Committee. Meetings 1989. 2 pages photocopied typescript, parts cut off. Rally. Sunday March 23 1986; Sunday March 30 [1991?]. 4 pages printed each. Reich, Peter, and Sidel, Victor W. ‘Napalm’. 6 pages duplicated typescript, reprinted from New England Journal of Medicine, Nov 1967. Revolutionary Moratorium Committee. Many fronts - one fight. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Moratorium and strike, 18-20 Sep., authorised by the Revolutionary Moratorium Committee and the Revolutionary Socialist Party. Sakharov, A.D. What I imagine the future to be like. 24 pages duplicated typescript. Translated from a German translation, with Press summary from ‘L’Unita’, 28 Sep 1968 as foreword. Salmon, Malcolm. Translations and comments on situation in Indo-China. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. Sanders, Norm. Circular letters to groups and individuals as addressed. Feb 1988, 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Attached : Summary of ‘Relocating risks - from Sydney to Jervis Bay’, 2 pages photocopied print. 20 Dec 1988, 2 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : Media releases, speech reported in Hansard, articles in press; all photocopied. 28 Feb 1989, to Environmental and Conservation/Peace groups. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Soliciting support on enquiry into paper pulp mills. Jul 1989, 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Attached : Banning the mining and export of uranium : submission to the Australian Labor Party Uranium Policy Review Committee, by Richard Bolt, researcher for Senator Norm Sanders. 2 versions, photocopied typescript. Press release, 10 Jul 1985. Lucas Heights nuclear threat : Democrats. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Schoenman, Ralph. Speech on Radio Hanoi to fellow Americans. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Southeast Asia-Australia, Queensland Conference, 1966. Ann appeal to women . . . Dr Spock. 1 leaf printed. Also flyer announcing the Conference. Programme. 5 leaves duplicated typescript. Apologies and messages to conference. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Amended time table, Oct 2. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Submission to the Commission ‘Economic Development in South-East Asia’. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Reports of commissions, Saturday morning session. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Saturday afternoon session. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. Sunday morning session. 5 pages duplicated typescript, handwritten correction. Attached : Commission - Australia’s defence - conscription, charts prepared by B. Robinson. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Report of Plenary session, Sunday afternoon. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Credentials report. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Circular letter, 6 Oct 1966. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Enclosing Report of Plenary session, Sunday afternoon; Financial statement, requesting support. ______

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Manila folder, with stencilled decoration. Name Mrs Eva Bacon handwritten on front. Vallentine, Jo. Circular letter, Jun 1989. 4 pages printed typescript. The Geraldton spy base. 6 pages printed. Hints on letter writing [to public figures]. 1 leaf printed typescript. Lobby for Peace. Varga, E. Problems of the postwar industrial cycle and the new crisis of overproduction. 23 pages duplicated typescript. Translated from Kommunist, no. 8, Jun 1958. Vietnam Action Committee. Invitation to seminar : Do the Geneva Agreements provide a basis for peace in Vietnam? 1966. Fanfolded leaflet, printed. 1000 more Australians for Vietnam . . . 2 pages printed. Press release, 15 Feb 1966. Week of activities, 21-28 Mar 1966. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Where is the basis for peace in Vietnam? 2 pages printed. Vietnam Moratorium Campaign. National Anti-War Conference. Conference bulletin, no. 1, 24 Nov 1970. 4 pages duplicated typescript. National Co-ordinating Committee meeting, Melbourne, 9 Jan 1971. Minutes. 6 pages duplicated typescript. Vietnam Peace Delegation. Memorandum concerning preparation for the joint Vietnamese delegation to Australia. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Hamilton, H. Report of a meeting of anti war activists held in Sydney, April 9, 1973. 3 leaves photocopied typescript. Plans for the visit. Vietnam Pictorial. U.S. crimes in Vietnam. Folded leaflet, printed. World Council of Peace. Bulletin, no. 11 Supplement : the 1954 Geneva Agreement on Vietnam. 26 pages printed.

Press cuttings Aarons, Laurie. ‘Merchant of death stakes : US leads USSR in arms deals’. Tribune, 30 May 1984. ‘Bomb leaked’. Courier-Mail, 16 May 1989, 6. Brodie, Ian. ‘The Hack hits back’. Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 28 May 1989,12. Ceylon : insurrection or revolution? Collection of press clippings, 1971. ‘Crusade on Vietnam’, leader. Maryborough Chronicle, 12 Nov 1965, 2. Also ‘Peace campaigner in Maryborough’. ‘For world navigation’. Courier-Mail, 27 Jun 1972. ‘40th anniversary of the defeat of Fascism : 20 million Soviet citizens gave their lives in the war to defeat fascism’. Advertisement. National Times, 10-16 May 1985, 33-36. Other material includes a suggested alliance against nuclear war. Hayden, Bill. Grievance debate. Parliamentary Debates, 31 Mar 1966, 811-813. International affairs. Parliamentary Debates, 19 Apr 1966, 922-926. ‘High rise “Omega” site test this week’. No source [Courier-Mail?], 28 Jun 1972. Hughes, Emmet John. ‘A remembered reckoning’. Newsweek, 11 Jul 1966, 11.

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Jones, Peter. ‘Beyond the blocs : independent peace groups in Eastern Europe’. Tribune, 21 Mar 1984, 7. ‘North West Cape : its critical role in U.S. military network’. Tribune, 6 Jun 1984, 8-9. Jorss, Audrey N. ‘Protest on N-test’. Letter to the editor. Courier-Mail, 29 May 1973. Larkin, John, and Walker, David. ‘Nuclear energy gets push’. Courier-Mail, 15 Oct 1990. ‘Letters to the editor : The peace movement; “Peace game”; Vietnam issues, “Tragic aspect”.’ [Maryborough Chronicle], undated [1965]. McNamara, Robert. ‘The misconceived nuclear standoff’. National Times, 30 Sep-6 Oct 1983, 15- 17. Martin, David. ‘Expanding peace by armed neutrality’. Letter to the editor. National Times, 11-17 May 1984. ‘Minister gives pledge on Woomera nuke role’. Courier-Mail, 17 Aug 1989, 17. Also ‘No joy in uranium mines : PM’. ‘Nuclear arms deployment plans revealed’. Courier-Mail, 14 Feb 1985. Also ‘Soviet withdrawal offer’. ‘Omega site possibility for Downs’. No source [Courier-Mail?], 26 Jun 1972. ‘Omega stations “war targets”.’ Courier-Mail, 6 Jul 1972. ‘Peace’, notice of meeting. [Maryborough Chronicle], 12 Nov 1965. ‘Pine Gap secretly expanded’. Tribune, 23 May 1990, 1. ‘Professor warns of 60-day havoc after nuclear attack’. Sydney Morning Herald, 26 Oct 1964, 5. Also ‘Disarmament rally : 4,000 take part in city march’; ‘Hiroshima “has tried to prevent war”.’ ‘Race for arms’. No source [Courier-Mail?] no date. ‘Radio Australia used for Asian propaganda’. Courier-Mail. 3 Jan 1986, 2. Also ‘War prisoners released on political grounds’. ‘The rising cost of killing’. Everybody’s, 8 Jun 1966, 29. ‘Scrap bases, says Vic ALP’. Courier-Mail, 18 Jun 1990, 10. Solness, Peter ‘Maralinga, mon amour’. Photo-essay. National Times, 11-17 May 1984, 20-21. Also Smith, Deborah, and Toohey, Brian. ‘Run rabbit run . . .’ 20. Stacey, Tom. ‘Sikkim - where China can prod India’. Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 19 Sep 1965, 29. ‘The Strategic basis papers’. National Times, 30 Mar-5 Apr 1984, 23-30. Thew, Helen. ‘House upkeep bill tops green budget’. Courier-Mail, 18 Jun 1990. Toohey, Brian. ‘Pine Gap prepares to spy on Greece’. National Times, 29 Mar-4 Apr 1985, 3. ‘What Cabinet decided : the Strat Basis papers’. National Times, 6-12 Apr 1984, 3-5. ‘Uranium : over 300 doctors tell why the health risks demand a delay’. Advertisement. National Times, 21-26 Nov 1977, 68. ‘US radiation fallout could harm 13,000’. Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 15 Jul 1990, 13. Voisey, Mark. ‘Chemical arms ban supported by neighbors’. [Courier-Mail?], 13 Nov 1990. Walker, Frank. ‘The greening of Petra Kelly’. National Times, 11-17 May 1984, 24.

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‘Who has the bomb? Stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons is essential - but it is not easy’. Newsweek, 5 Dec 1983, 17-18. Wilkinson, Marian. ‘After the big blast : the disturbing reality of nuclear “accidents”.’ National Times, 22-28 Mar 1985, 11-12. Williams, Robyn. ‘Science goes secret’. National Times, 3-9 May 1985, 25-26. ‘Woman speaker urges negotiation for peace’. Bundaberg News-Mail, 15 Nov 1965. Wright, Janet. ‘Women make a peace banner’. National Times, 18-24 Nov 1983, 10-11. Also ‘Inside Pine Gap’, 11.

Box 2 Bacon, E A Manila folder labelled Party : Documents, programs, etc. Letter to Ted, 4 May 1972, from Laurie Aarons. 1 leaf typescript. Best wishes for health. Letter to E.A. Bacon, Secretary, CPA State Committee, 14 May 1969, from C.J. Bennett, MLA for South Brisbane. 1 leaf typescript. Answer to Press statement on Bjelke-Petersen. Attached : Press statement (crossed out), 7th May 1969 handwritten, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, about radical students. Letter to C.J. Bennett, MLA for South Brisbane, 15 May 1969, from E.A. Bacon. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Letter to E.A. Bacon, 19 May 1969, from C.J. Bennett. 1 leaf typescript, handwritten note. Letter to Ted, 11 Feb 1972, from Vic Brill. 2 leaves handwritten. Asking for help with a sick friend. Letter to Vic, 22 Feb 1972, from Ted Bacon. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Offering help. Letters to E.A. Bacon and [Claude] Jones, Trustees for the Estate of Peter Pianta, 30 Dec 1968, and 28 Jan 1969, from Commonwealth Bank, signed G.T.N. Kirby. 1 leaf typescript each. Money in interest bearing deposits, attached Safe Custody Receipts. Letter to W. Grant, 10 Feb 1971, from [E.A.?] Bacon. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Offer of help. Letter to Ted, 2 Oct [1968?], from Joyce. 2 leaves typescript, with handwritten corrections. Activities in the north. Note to Brian [Laver], 16 May 1969, from [Ted Bacon]. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript, handwritten note that another copy went to Vic Slater. Enclosing copy of C.J. Bennett’s first letter, 14 May 1969. Letter to Mrs [sic] E.A. Bacon, 15 May 1969, from Edward I. Sykes, Professor of Public Law, University of Melbourne. 1 leaf typescript. Reaction to Press release on Bjelke-Petersen. Letter to Superintendent, Warwick Base Hospital, 10 Feb 1971, from [Ted Bacon]. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Offering to help W. Grant.

Bacon, E. Letter to Eva, 15 June 1972, from Dick Dixon, signed pp. 1 leaf typescript. Article to be published in another journal.

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Bacon, E A: Visit to Indonesia, 1963 Kenang-kenangan dari Djawa Timur - Indonesia, untuk : Kawan : Ted Bacon. Album of black and white photographs from the visit. Some more photographs not in an album. Manila folder, Indonesia 1963 written on front. [Untitled]. Begins : Djakarta, July 11. Aidit, chairman of the Indonesian Communist Party . . . 3 leaves typescript, some corrections. Integration of Indonesia with Malaya and Singapore unacceptable. Come, Let’s round up and destroy the counter-revolution! Speech delivered by D. N. Aidit on May 26 1963. 20 leaves duplicated typescript. Decisions and resolution of the M.P.R.S. : editorial. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, handwritten corrections, note HR 25 Mei(?) 63 written at top. The economic declaration and the conditions for its implementation : lecture delivered by D. N. Aidit, 11 May 1963. 28 leaves duplicated typescript, leaf 14 missing. Forty-three years of C.P.I. : editorial. 2 leaves duplicated typescript, with handwritten corrections, note HR 23 Mei(?) 63 written at front. The manipol as the common programme of the Indonesian people. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. Political report : Daring, daring, once again, daring! 25 leaves duplicated typescript, date Feb 1963 handwritten on front; II. Strengthen the anti-imperialist international front and strengthen the international communist movement. 10 leaves duplicated typescript, numbered 26-35; III. Perfect the method of leadership and go forward working with a plan. 7 leaves duplicated typescript, numbered 36-43. Report. Incomplete, handwritten leaves 13-20. Save the economic declaration! Statement issued by the Political Bureau of the CC CPI on 3rd June 1963. 7 leaves duplicated typescript. With the people Bung Karno is the great leader of the Indonesian people. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Written interview submitted to D.N. Aidit, Chairman of the CC CPI, by the Associated Press correspondent, Karsten Prager, Djarkata, May 9, 1963. 3 pages duplicated typescript.

Communist Party Dissolution Act Case stated : The Australian Communist Party & Ors. v. The Commonwealth of Australia & Ors. 7 other plaintiffs. Name on cover : M.M. Julius, marks and underlining in text in red ballpoint. Attached : Joint opinion, by J.W. Shand and M.F. Hardie re Communist Party Dissolution Bill, to Waterside Workers’ Federation, 29 Sep 1950, 3 leaves typescript; ‘Sir Robert Garran asks . . . will the Federal power continue to expand’, Press clipping, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 Jan 1951; Brief to hear judgment to Mr Julius, 1 leaf typed.

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Communist Party of Australia: charges against members Brown, W.J. Letter to the National Committee, Communist Party of Australia, 19 Dec 1970, from W.J. Brown. Requesting deferment of hearing, counter-accusations. Letter to W. Brown, 22 Dec 1970, from N. Docker, Convenor, Investigating Committee. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Hearing postponed. For a united revolutionary party : a reply to W.J. Brown’s allegations [by Laurie Aarons]. 20 pages duplicated typescript, initials E.A.B. pencilled on front. Brown, W.J. Proof of the charges against L. Aarons : the case to preserve the Communist Party of Australia. 25 pages duplicated typescript. Report of committee appointed to hear charges against Comrade W.J. Brown. 6 pages duplicated typescript. Cram, R., Cram, M., Curthoys, B. Charges made by c’de D. Olive concerning breaches of rules. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Letter to the Secretary, Newcastle District Committee, 3 Dec 1970, from Bob and Maura Cram and Barbara Curthoys. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Letter to Barbara, Maura and Bob, 9 Dec 1970, from C. Dumbrell, Y. Giles, N. Gow, investigating committee. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Procedure in investigation. Letter to Dear Comrade [ie. R. and M. Cram and B. Curthoys], 23 Dec 1970, from David Ross for the District Committee. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Expelled, avenues of appeal. Statement, by Barbara Curthoys. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. Enquiry undemocratic and biased. Covering note to Ted, 18 May 1971, from Barbara Curthoys. 1 leaf handwritten. Henderson, J.B. Circular letter, 6 Jan 1969, from National Executive. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Party unity. National Committee resolution ‘On party unity’, adopted by the July 25-27 meeting of the National Committee with two dissentients. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Socialism is secure. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Circulated by J.B. Henderson. A reply to - ‘Socialism is secure’. 2 pages duplicated typescript. By Queensland State Executive. Circular letter to Party members, 22 Sep 1969. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Party unity. Covering letter to all Party branches, 22 Sep 1969. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, enclosing sets of material for all members. Two copies of this material, both with s/cttee written at top, one with name Eva, the other with name Ted. Henry, J.C. Transcript of hearing by committee of charges against Comrade J. C. Henry, Brisbane, 6 Nov 1970. 19 pages duplicated typescript, with some handwritten corrections and an insertion on p.5. Report of committee appointed to hear charges against Comrade J.C. Henry, 26 Nov 1970. 8 pages duplicated typescript, some handwritten corrections. Maritime branch. Circular letter, undated, from District Executive [district unspecified, Sydney?]. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Maritime branch working against Congress decisions. Circular letter, 16 Nov 1970, [from Sydney District Committee?]. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Report of hearing and decisions. Watt, A., Ross E. Report of committee of investigation. 5 pages duplicated typescript. ______

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Communist Party of Australia: congresses 16th Congress: Constitution of the Communist Party of Australia; adopted by the 16th National Congress, August 1951. 20 p. 20th Congress: Illustrated folder, numbered 5099 containing programme of conference, several draft resolutions, some with handwritten notes, two handwritten notes, Guardian supplement. All duplicated typescript, except Guardian supplement. 21st Congress: Minutes of 21st National Congress - Communist Party of Australia. 13 pages duplicated typescript. Rules and constitution of the Communist Party of Australia, adopted by the 21st National Congress, June 1967. 29 p. My reasons for reading the documents for the 21st National Congress of the Communist Party of Australia. 7 leaves typescript, dated 6-11/4/67. 22nd Congress:  Draft outline of a programmatic statement. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. Undated.  Pink document wallet, with 22nd Congress sticker, and name E.A. Bacon on flap. An appeal to C.P.A. members. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : Appeal form to be signed and returned, 1 leaf duplicated typescript with handwritten additions, name and address area not filled in.  ‘Aims, methods and organisation’. Press clipping, Tribune, 10 Dec 1969, pp. 5-8.  Ross, Edgar. An alternative statement of aims, methods and organisation. 16 pages duplicated typescript, numbered 20 to 35.  ‘Modern unionism and the workers’ movement’. Press clipping, Tribune, 17 Dec 1969, pp. 6-7.  Minutes of the 22nd Congress. 15 pages duplicated typescript.  ‘Present and future’. Press clipping, Tribune, 8 Apr 1970, p.5; more reports on pp. 6 and 7.  Socialism : the human need, a human response. 2 pages printed, folded in-8. Order form for the Congress documents. Circular letter to Delegates to the 22nd Congress, 29 Jan 1971, from CPA national executive. Article in New Times. 23rd Congress:  Circular letter to members of the National Committee, 20 Oct 1971, from L. Aarons, for National Executive. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Enclosing draft Political document. Attached : Voting paper on proposals and procedures for congress, 1 leaf duplicated typescript.  Circular letter to members of National Committee, 9 Dec 1971, from L. Aarons for National Executive. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Preparations for Congress.  ‘The Left challenge for the ‘70’s’. Press clipping, Tribune, 14 Dec 1971, pp. 5-8.  Circular letter to National Committee members, 20 Jan 1972, from L. Aarons. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Attached : Draft agenda and proposals for Congress, 4 pages duplicated typescript.  Circular letter to State committees, District committees, Western section, Darwin, Broken Hill and N.C. members, 4 Feb 1972, from L. Aarons, for National Committee. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Congress preparations, representation.

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 Circular letter to Delegates to the 23 Congress and non-elected N.C. members, 15 Mar 1972, from CPA national executive. Enclosing proposals.  Congress political document : draft. 17 pages duplicated typescript.  CPA 23rd Congress, 1972 : proposals for procedures, information for delegates. 11 pages duplicated typescript. Proposals for 23rd Congress, C.P.A. 3 pages duplicated typescript.  Circular letter to all Party organisations, 23 Jun 1972, from National Executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Special issue of Australian Left Review. 24th Congress: Sendy, John. The real issue before the Party and the congress. 10 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : Covering letter, 16 Nov 1973, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; document unsuitable for Praxis. 25th Congress:  Draft political resolution for C.P.A. Congress 1976. Press clipping, Tribune, 7 Apr 1976, pp. 6-8.  Extract from Women and social liberation : policy statement of 1974 National congress; and Extract from Draft outline of new Party program. 1 leaf photocopied print.  Pre-Congress discussion. Press clipping, Tribune, 12 May 1976, p.8. 26th Congress:  Towards socialism in Australia : draft of a program for the Communist Party of Australia. Sydney : Australian Radical Publications, 1978. 67 p. Name E. Bacon on cover, some handwritten notes.  Manila wallet with red illustrated sticker CPA 26th Congress, for socialism, democracy and liberation, Communist Party of Australia Congress, Sydney, June 1979. Contents : Congress documents, a few with marks indicating voting, handwritten notes inside flap of wallet. 27th Congress:  Draft political resolutions for discussion, CPA 27 Congress. 22 pages.  Documents of the 27th congress June 1982. 26 p. 28th Congress:  National Committee draft document, adopted August 12, 1984. 15 pages printed typescript, with handwritten marks and notes.  Socialist perspectives on issues for the ‘80s : documents of the CPA 28th National Congress. 20 pages printed typescript, handwritten notes and marks on pp. 6 and 7. 29th Congress:  Economic & industrial draft resolution, adopted by the National Committee on 7/8 February 1987. 17 pages duplicated typescript. National Committee draft congress document.  Socialist renewal : where to now? adopted by the National Committee on 7-8 February, 1987. 12 pages duplicated typescript. National Committee draft congress document. 30th Congress: CPA 30th Congress : draft documents. 8 leaves printed. 31st Congress; Praxis, no. 60 Dec 1990, with handwritten corrections from no. 61.

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Box 3 Communist Party of Australia: Greek branches Note from Aristotle Branch. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Greek branches to run their own affairs. D. S[kiotis] summary. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Relations of Greek branches to CPA and to parties in Greece. G. Z[angalis] summary. 4 leaves duplicated typescript, one handwritten correction. Greek migrants and exiles and politics. Some questions of ideological nature intimately related to our practical work among Greeks in Australia. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript, handwritten corrections. CPA and Greek migrants.

Communist Party of Australia: international relations Miscellaneous Cable sent to the Communist Parties of France, Italy, Britain, India, Japan, USA, Chile, 22 Aug 1968, signed Aarons. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Invasion of Czechoslovakia. Speech delivered by R. Dixon on behalf of the Australian delegation to the Moscow preparatory meeting, March 20th, 1969. 5 leaves duplicated typescript. The Communist Party of Australia and the international Communist movement. 3 pages duplicated typescript. International meeting in Moscow, June 1969. Guidelines for the delegation to the Moscow meeting. 3 leaves duplicated typescript, with handwritten correction. Meeting in June 1969. [Untitled] : report of delegation. 4 leaves carbon copy typescript, with corrections. [Bernie Taft] visiting European countries after occupation of Czechoslovakia. Tasks at the present stage of the struggle against imperialism and united action of the Communist and Workers’ Parties and all anti-imperialist forces : draft. 22 pages duplicated typescript. Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties. Zionism and the war crisis in the Middle East : second article of a series on the World Communist Conference and the C.P.A. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Circulated by Alf Watt. Circular letter to National Committee members, 4 Feb 1972, from L. Aarons, for National Executive. 3 pages duplicated typescript, scribble on blank page. Invitations and correspondence from various Communist parties; also amended proposals for organisation of national congress.

Czechoslovakia [Untitled]. Article on the invasion of Czechoslovakia. 9 leaves carbon copy typescript, with corrections and alterations. Background to Czechoslovakian trials : Milan Hubl’s letter to Gustav Husak. 5 pages duplicated typescript, introduction by Laurie Aarons. Names Ted & Eva B. written at top. Czechoslovakia : meeting of the Presidium of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Central Committee. 3 pages duplicated typescript, circulated by Alf Watt. Also contains 50th anniversary of

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Hungary Announcement (unofficial translation), 21 Aug 1968. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Hungarian attitude to invasion of Czechoslovakia. Letter to Dear Comrades, 10 Apr 1970, from Janos Kadar, translated from Hungarian. 2 pages duplicated typescript. World Anti-Imperialist Congress.

Poland Letter to Polish United Workers’ Party, Central Committee, 22 Dec 1970, from National Executive, signed R. Dixon, L. Aarons. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Strikes in Poland. The statement of the Government of the Polish People’s Republic of August 21, 1968. 2 pages duplicated typescript, press release from the Polish Consulate General, 22 Aug 1968. Polish attitude to invasion of Czechoslovakia.

United Kingdom Letter to Mavis Robertson, 7 Feb [1971], from Perry Anderson. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Unable to travel to Australia at present. Circular letter from Mavis Robertson, 8 Mar 1971. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, enclosing Anderson’s letter. Tour postponed not cancelled.

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USSR Open letter of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to Party organisations and all Communists in the Soviet Union. 16 pages printed, name E.A. Bacon written at front. Moscow News, 20 Jul 1963, supplement. Split with China. [Untitled]. Begins : The Central Committee of the CPSU wishes to inform you . . . Unofficial translation received 28 Oct 1968. 11 pages duplicated typescript, name E.A.B. written on front. Reasons for invasion of Czechoslovakia. Bi-lateral discussion between CPA and CPSU : opening statement by R. Dixon. 3 leaves duplicated typescript, name E.A.B. written on front. Meeting in Moscow, June 1971. Letter to the National Committee of the Communist Party of Australia, [after 30 Jun 1970], from the Central Committee of the CPSU. Unofficial translation. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Break in relations.

Communist Party of Australia: miscellaneous Arts Art and literature commission. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. [Manifold, John S.] The arts and the revolutionary party. 4 pages duplicated typescript.

Australia Card Why the Australia Card must be stopped. 4 pages printed. Authorised by the Sydney District Committee, CPA.

Democracy Bacon, E.A. Democratic rights a key issue. 6 leaves carbon copy typescript, with handwritten corrections.

Education Burns, G. On party education. 2 pages, numbered 37-38, duplicated typescript. Draft education programme. 10 pages duplicated typescript. Undated, late 1960s. Public education commission. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. State aid. 3 pages duplicated typescript, handwritten notes, unrelated. The technological revolution and educational and social change. 6 leaves duplicated typescript.

Elections Notes on the Country Party : for consideration Agrarian Committee, March 1966. 6 pages duplicated typescript. Vote Red for a green Australia. 4 pages printed. CPA Senate candidates in NSW, 1972.

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Proposals for Federal election campaign. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. [1980].

Environment Commission on environment. 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

Health Draft health programme. 5 pages duplicated typescript, April 1966. Kault, David. Comments concerning a possible Communist Health Program. 17 leaves photocopied typescript.

Immigration Zangalis, G. Post war immigration. 10 leaves duplicated typescript. Covering note, 5 May 1967, 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

Labor government The Communist Party’s view : The Labor government and the future. Sydney : Red Pen Publications, [1972?]. 8 pages duplicated typescript.

Lenin centenary Report from the sub-committee appointed to make proposals for the celebration of the Lenin centenary in Australia. 2 pages duplicated typescript.

Meeting between Christians and Marxists Programme for meeting arranged by the Division of Studies of the Australian Council of Churches and the Executive of the Communist Party of Australia. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Meeting, 9- 11 Aug 1968.

Mundey, Jack The Mundey contempt case : why can’t we question judges? 4 pages printed.

National liberation and anti-war National Liberation and anti-war commission. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Ogden, Max. Some problems of unity in Papua/New Guinea. 2 pages duplicated typescript.

Policy Commission on anti-imperialism, anti-racism and anti-war Circular letter, 19 Feb 1974, from CPA national office. 2 pages duplicated typescript.

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Social wage Goullet, Geoff. Social welfare; for Communist Party Welfare Cttee Qld. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. These men threaten to : De-register existing unions and set up tame-cat ones, . . . 4 pages printed, dated 1979 in ballpoint. Issued by the Communist Party of Australia. Court, Fraser, Bjelke- Petersen. Wages & pensions proposals in Statement of aims. 2 pages duplicated typescript.

Taxation Radical tax reform - a communist Party proposal. 2 pages duplicated typescript.

Tribune and publicity Publicity committee. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Circular letter, Jan 1971, from CPA national executive. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Tribune sales.

Vietnam war Aarons, Brian. Proposal for Party statement and action on People’s Republic of China and Vietnam. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Bombed in Vietnam! 4 pages printed. Danger of nuclear war. Henderson, Jim. 1954 Geneva agreement on Vietnam (what it stipulates is the opposite to what the U.S. and Menzies claim). 1 leaf printed. Reprinted from Queensland Guardian, 24 Feb 1965. You can’t trust Nixon - on Indochina, or anything else. 4 pages printed.

Wages All in fight for [pound sign]17 basic wage. 4 pages printed. Basic Wage claim, 1964. Taxation will increase! Mr Gorton P.M., March 1968. 4 pages printed. Wage restraint, no price restraint.

Winding up Letter to all CPA members following 30th National Congress, 18 Dec 1989, from Michael Evans, National Organiser. 2 pages photocopied typescript. New organisation. Letter to all CPA members, 9 Apr 1991, from Michael Evans, Brian Aarons. 4 pages photocopied typescript. Letter to all CPA members, 8 Sep 1992, from Michael Evans, for CPA Committee. Subscriptions due to hold AGM.

Youth Aarons, Mark. National young Communists’ conference. 2 pages duplicated typescript. ______

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The need for a young Communist organisation; prepared by Mark Aarons and Denis Freney. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Young workers and students commission. 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

Communist Party of Australia: National Committee and National Executive Party building and the path to a mass party (from the report to the February 1965 meeting of the Central Committee). 15 pages duplicated typescript, name at top of first page crossed through and unreadable. Circular letter, 26 Apr 1966, from C.C. Secretariat. 2 pages duplicated typescript. 100% membership renewal campaign. Circular letter, 4 Oct 1968, signed National Officers. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Next meeting. Attached : Cable, 2 Oct [1968], from Eric Thornton in Moscow, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; Proposals from Comrade Eric Fry, 4 pages duplicated typescript, Party history. Charter of democratic rights : draft, adopted by the National Committee of the Communist Party of Australia, 1969. 12 pages duplicated typescript. Information service : Decisions of National Committee of the Communist Party of Australia, 25-27 Jan 1969. Communist Party of Australia. Information bulletin : Minutes - National Executive meeting, January 28, 1970. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Letter to National Committee, 27 May 1970, from W.A. State Committee. Incomplete, 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Suggestions for membership of the new National Committee. Minutes of National Committee meeting held 29th, 30th & 31st May 1970. 13 pages duplicated typescript. Letter to R. Dixon, 5 Aug 1970, from P. Clancy. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Resignation. Minutes of National Committee meeting held October 9, 10, 11, 1970. 6 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : Resolutions, 3 pages duplicated typescript. Minutes of National Executive meeting held 9-10 Nov 1970. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Minutes of National Committee meeting, 12th-14th March 1971. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : Resolution on Indo-China, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; Resolution on the Liberal Party crisis, 2 pages duplicated typescript. Minutes of National Committee meeting, 21st-23rd May 1971. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : On Communist Party unity, 2 pages duplicated typescript; Australia and the People’s Republic of China, 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Circular letter to members of the National Committee, 16 Jul 1971, from L. Aarons, National Secretary. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Next meeting., agenda. Notice of meeting, 20-22 Aug 1971. Agenda, 4 pages duplicated typescript; Notice of motion by G. Zangalis, 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Sent 5 Aug 1971. Circular letter to National Committee members and Party organisations, 8 Sep 1971, from Claude Jones, National Executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Tribune.

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Circular letter to Dear Comrade, 21 Sep 1971, from L. Aarons. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Reprints letter of thanks from Penny Jackson, for condolences on George Jackson’s death, enclosing petition (not found). Circular letter to National Committee members, State and District committees, 31 May 1972, from Mavis Robertson, for National Executive. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Residential schools. Circular letter to Dear Comrade, 15 Jun 1972, from National Executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, handwritten note. Next meeting of National Committee. Circular letter to National Committee members, Members of the Policy Commission on Anti- Imperialism and Anti-Racism, State and District Secretaries, 14 Jan 1974, from Mavis Robertson, for National Executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Preparation of policy statement. Constitution and rules : draft for circulation to members of the National Committee. 9 pages duplicated typescript. Preparation for 23rd congress. Draft resolution, undated, unsigned. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Party disunity. Alternative draft resolution, undated, submitted by J. Sendy and B. Taft. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Party disunity. Draft resolution for National Committee meeting, undated [1972?], unsigned. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Future work. Circular letter to National Committee members, members of industrial committees, National Industrial Committee, undated, signed Rob Durbridge for the National Officers, with re-draft of the Workers Movement Document. 20 pages duplicated typescript, name Bacon written at front. [Early 1980s]. Draft resolution on China, undated, unsigned. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. National Committee resolution on pre-Congress discussion. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. A new direction for the economy : resolution of the National Committee of the Communist Party of Australia on the political and economic situation carried at its meeting on July 11-13, 1986. 4 pages printed. Socialist renewal : the current stage & the tasks ahead : resolution of the National Committee of the Communist Party of Australia, 11-13 July, 1986. 4 pages printed. Circular letter to all Party members, 23 Aug 1986, from the National Committee, signed Brian Aarons, Louise Connor. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Enclosing resolutions from meeting of 11-13 Jul. Minutes of National Committee meeting held 14, 15, 16 Nov 1986. 16 leaves photocopied typescript. Minutes of the CPA National Committee meeting held 9-10 September 1989 in Sydney. 15 pages duplicated typescript.

Communist Party of Australia: party unity A letter to all members of the C.P.A., August 1971, signed Laurie Aarons for the National Committee. 2 pages duplicated typescript, unrelated pencil note on back. Card re-issue. ‘Australians forming new Marxist party’. Daily World (New York), 8 Jan 1972. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Attached : Letter to the Editor, Daily World, from L. Aarons, 2 pages duplicated typescript; and Letter to C.P.U.S.A., from L. Aarons, both dated 25 Jan 1972. ______

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Lammiman, P. Views on future Party work. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Notes on Party restructuring. 4 leaves duplicated typescript, name E. Bacon written at top. On Communist Party unity. 2 pages duplicated typescript. An open letter to Resistance, 8 Feb 1970, from Denis Freney. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Reformation and programatic [sic] unity. 1 leaf photocopied typescript, handwritten correction. Incomplete(?) Resolution on C.P. unity. 3 pages duplicated typescript.

Communist Party of Australia. Women’s Collective Draft for discussion by Branches. 10 leaves photocopied typescript, many handwritten notes and much underlining. Communist attitude to Women’s Liberation. Stevens, Joyce. ‘Work among women’ in the Communist Party - 1920-1940. 20 pages duplicated typescript, initials A.H., K.T., P.Y. written at top. Undated, 1980s(?). Women and social liberation - a Communist viewpoint, first draft. 2 copies, duplicated typescript, one copy 10 pages, name E. Bacon written at top, the other copy 14 pages. [1970?]. Australia. Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs. Inquiry into certain aspects of the law relating of divorce, custody and family matters. Submission of the Communist Party of Australia. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Dated 20 May 1972. Circular letter to all members of the National Committee Commission on Women and Social Liberation, and to members of the National Committee, 10 Nov 1972, from Mavis Robertson. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Join Hands, periodical. Circular letter to all members of the National Commission on Women and Social Liberation, and to State and District Women’s Collectives, 26 Mar 1973, from Mavis Robertson. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Women’s issue of Tribune. Circular letter, 2 Apr 1973, from Mavis Robertson. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Women’s issue of Tribune. Attached : Summary of discussion at meeting on Saturday, March 31st to discuss preparation and production of ‘Women’s Tribune’, 5 pages duplicated typescript. Melbourne Women’s Collective. Minutes of meeting, 27 Jun [May?] 1973, and agenda for meeting 24 Jun 1973, dated 15 Jun 1973. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Report by Comrade Mavis Robertson to the meeting of the National Committee, C.P.A., held on August 11th and 12th. 6 leaves duplicated typescript, dated 1973 in ballpoint. Circular letter to members of the National Committee Commission on Women & Social Liberation, Party Women’s collectives, State and District Committees, members of the National Committee, 29 Nov 1973, from Mavis Robertson. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Women’s preparation for 24th National Congress of the CPA. Circular letter to National Committee members, members of the National Committee Policy Commission on Women and Social Liberation, State and District Secretaries, C.P.A. Women’s Collectives, 20 Dec 1973. from Mavis Robertson. 2 leaves photocopied typescript. Women’s pre- Congress meeting. Attached : Paper by Esther Aarons, 1 leaf photocopied typescript, payment for housewives. [Bibliography of pamphlets and periodical articles on women]. 3 leaves carbon copy typescript. latest date seen 1973. ______

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Circular letter to Women’s Collectives, National Committee members, members of the Policy Commission on Women and Social Liberation, State and District Committees, 14 Jan 1974, from Mavis Robertson. 1 copy 2 pages duplicated typescript, 1 copy 2 leaves carbon copy typescript. Programme for Minto weekend. Women’s Collective Discussion Series : papers given in the Discussion series held in August 1975 in Melbourne. Melbourne Women’s Collective of the C.P.A. 35 pages duplicated typescript, date 1976 and initials EB handwritten on cover. National CPA Women’s Discussion - Jan. 24 & 25, 1976, amended agenda. 3 leaves duplicated typescript, initials EB handwritten at top, registration form not filled in. Another copy, without leaf 2 and with a leaf of amendments and a letter from Lyn Hovey, undated, attached. Untitled. Paper on women in society. 6 pages duplicated typescript, some handwritten alterations, handwritten at top 1976 Adelaide EB. Circular letter to Women’s collectives of the CPA, members of the national committee, state and district committees, 7 Sep 1978, from Norma Crinion for Praxis editors. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Special issue of Praxis. Letter to Leslie Ebbels and Linda Rubenstein, 8 Nov 1978, from Judy, Sydney Women’s Collective. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript. Women’s Conference in Melbourne. Circular letter, 24 Nov 1978, from Melbourne Womens Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Plans for National Conference of Communist Party women. Melbourne Womens’ Collective Papers : contribution to discussion at the National CPA women’s meeting, Jan 1979. 1 leaf duplicated illustrated cover. Attached : Children’s services and the socialisation of children, 2 leaves duplicated typescript; Women and community action, 2 leaves duplicated typescript; Women and education, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; Women’s health, 2 leaves duplicated typescript; Women’s refuges, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; Victorian women’s collective, 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Issues raised by National Conf. of Communist Women : Melb. January. 4 leaves photocopied typescript, handwritten title, signature Jane Thomson, name Eva Bacon on verso of third leaf in another hand. Circular letter to CPA women’s collectives, state and district committees, members of the national committee, 6 Mar 1979, from Mavis Robertson. Women’s periodical publications. Attached : Women and social liberation, 16 pages duplicated typescript, as amended at the Women’s Conference in Melbourne, a few handwritten additions. Amendments to ‘Women and social liberation’. 11 pages duplicated typescript, a few handwritten notes and corrections. Circular letter to all CPA Women’s Collectives, State and District Committees, Townsville and Canberra Branches, 4 May 1979, from M. Robertson. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, initials EB at top. Women’s newsletter. Circular letter to all CPA women’s collectives, undated [early 1979], from Vicki Wootten, Sydney Collective. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Women’s newsletter. Sexual politics . . sexual and domestic violence : a discussion paper for C.P.A. Branches, Sydney District. 5 pages duplicated typescript, name Marie Crisp written at top. Undated 1979 or later. Newsletter. Victorian Branch, Communist Party of Australia. 1980 : Jun. Handwritten at top Women’s Collective.

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Minutes of the Women’s Collective of the Communist Party of Australia, 5 Apr 1981. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, with note to Eva from Carmel [Shute] written at bottom. Minutes of the Women’s Collective of the Victorian CPA, 3 May 1981. 2 pages duplicated typescript. CPA National Women’s Conference, Newcastle 1981. Bulletin 1. 11 pages duplicated typescript, name E. Bacon written at top. Draft programme, information. CPA National Women’s Conference, Newcastle 1981. Bulletin 2. 14 pages duplicated typescript. Programme, information. Decisions of CPA National Women’s Conference, Newcastle 1981. 4 leaves duplicated typescript, name E. Bacon written at top. Untitled, undated [1982?]. 1 leaf photocopied typescript (incomplete). Decisions from a Women’s Weekend. CPA National Womens Conference 1985. 4 pages photocopied typescript. Registration form and proposed programme. Untitled. Article on women in the labour market. 9 leaves photocopied print, yellow highlighter. Undated, 1985 or later, no source.

Box 4 Communist Party of Australia. Queensland Branch Abortion Abortion : a right not a privilege. 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated May 1985 in ballpoint. Authorised by D. Macdonald.

ALP-ACTU Accord Accord pledge : ease tax on lower incomes. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Taxation reform.

Bjelke-Petersen, Johannes An open letter to Mr Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. 2 pages printed. Authorised by C. Gifford, 7 Aug 1970. Retort to red-baiting.

Branches Circular letter to Branch executives, 24 Feb 1971, from QSC executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, handwritten notes. Party reorganisation. Circular letter to Branch Executive members, 8 Mar 1971, from Q.S.C. executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, name Ted written at top. Party reorganisation.

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Brisbane How to solve Brisbane’s transport crisis. 4 pages printed. Authorised by W. Bowden, 6 Aug 1964. Suburban railways. A policy and program to develop Brisbane, 1/9/66. 8 leaves duplicated typescript.

Brisbane Flood 1974 ‘Brisbane time bomb’. 4 pages duplicated typescript, UAW written on front. Meeting called by Trades & Labor Council. After the flood : first aid and prevention. Draft of leaflet by Ecology and Resources Group. 4 pages duplicated typescript, with handwritten additions and corrections.

Budget If you do not use - . . . 2 pages printed. Authorised by C. Gifford. Price rises, war expenditure.

Civil Liberties Defend civil liberties : Free Djordjevic! 2 pages printed typescript. Authorised by C. Gifford. ‘Manifestly excessive’ sentence? Wanted : for bigotry, racism, exploitation, authoritarianism and other bastardry . . . 2 pages duplicated typescript. Authorised by the Communist Party of Australia, 25 Sep 1976. Cedar Bay, teachers and marijuana. Defend unionism and democratic rights : fight the ‘Essential Services’ bill. 2 pages printed. Produced by the Industrial Committee of the CPA, 1979. Defend unionism, democratic rights. 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated July 1979 in ballpoint. Unite to SMASH Joh’s Government. 8 pages printed typescript, illustrated. Authorised by the Communist Party of Australia [1979].

Communist Film Group Programme guide for April-June 1972. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Films to be shown at the Party Rooms.

Communist Workers Conference 1972 Circular no. 2. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, with marks in ballpoint. Grassie, Graeme. Proposal for an Institute of Workers' Control. 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

Ecology & Resources Group Circular letter, 12 Jan 1972, from the State Committee. Discussion weekend of the Group, other topics. Marchisotti, D[aisy]. Radicalise Communist policy. 2 pages duplicated typescript. ______

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Submission to Committee of Enquiry into the National Estate, by Ecology and Resources Group, Communist Party of Australia (Qld. Branch). 5 pages duplicated typescript.

Education A draft plan for public education in Queensland. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : Circular letter to S.C. members, all branches & NQ. DC., 14 Feb 1969, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, enclosing document, name Ted at top. Education in Queensland : Communist Party proposals. Draft only, for discussion and amendment, Sep 1969. 11 pages duplicated typescript, name Eva written at top. Circular letter to Branch secretaries & State Cttee members, 16 Mar 1972, from Q. SC Executive. Reprinting letter to the Secretary, Humanist Society of Qld, from E.F. Gatekunst, Chairman, Committee of enquiry into religious education on Queensland state schools. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Submission to Select Committee [on education in Queensland] : draft. 5 leaves duplicated typescript, with name E. Bacon written at top, and handwritten corrections, dated 5 Jul 1978.

Evans Deakin Crude attempt at blackmail. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. Blacklisting. Circular letter to all employees, 2 Apr 1973. 1 leaf photocopied print. Evans Deakin, another letter to employees. 2 pages duplicated typescript. 4 Apr 1973, authorised by C. Gifford. Shipyards : no barriers to nationalisation. 2 pages duplicated typescript. 15 Apr 1973, authorised by C. Gifford.

Federal Election 1972 Federal election campaign, circular letter from H. Hamilton and C. Gifford, 31 Jul 1972. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Notes on 1972 Federal elections. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, doodles in ballpoint.

Food Press statement. 1 leaf printed, including reprint from [Brisbane] Telegraph, 4 Jul 1972 `3 butchers fined over meat breach'. 5 Jul 1972, authorised by C. Gifford, Communist Party candidate for Brisbane.

Freeways F5 : central & northern freeways, property requirements from Harcourt Street, Teneriffe to Gympie Road, Kedron; prepared by Main Roads Dept, Queensland. 8 pages, printed and maps. New freeways menace to our suburbs. 2 pages printed typescript on verso of street map of proposed freeways. Sep 1973, issued by Northwest Branch.

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History Brown, Ron. Brisbane in the 1930’s by a young Communist worker. 6 leaves duplicated typescript. Communist Party of Australia : CPA - over sixty years struggle for socialism. 4 pages printed, handwritten date, Sep 1982. Membership drive.

Hospitals Save the free hospitals system. 4 pages printed. Authorised by E.A. Bacon, [1969?].

Humour Danger in our midst : a message to responsible citizens. 7 pages duplicated typescript. Satirical pamphlet. [Unattributed, but apparently duplicated on the CPA duplicator].

Law and Order Judge frees nazi on bomb charge. 4 leaves printed typescript. 23 Nov 1972, authorised by C. Gifford. Bomb at Party rooms.

Mass Resignations 1984 [Untitled]. Begins : In January this year a group of young people resigned . . .. 8 leaves photocopied typescript. Statement. [Untitled]. Begins : On 17th January 1984, a group of 11 people resigned . . .. 10 pages photocopied typescript. Statement reprinted and State Committee's reply.

May Day Let’s get organized! 2 pages duplicated typescript. Communist Party publication, authorised by E.G. Goullet, 3 May 1976. CPA May Day ‘78, march with the C.P.A. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, signed Hugh Hamilton, Charlie Gifford.

Mount Gravatt Branch Motion. 3 leaves photocopied typescript. Establish a Strategy Research Group.

Municipal Elections Municipal elections Saturday, May 2nd, 1964. Electors of Nudgee : the Communist candidate for your electorate, W.F. (Bill) Hill. 2 pages printed. Party aims. Make Rockhampton a fine, modern city - free of debt. 6 pages printed (2 pages folded in three). Trev Pastourel, CPA candidate, 1964(?)

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The Greater Brisbane form of local government. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Authorised by W. Bowden. Attached : Circular letter to Branches and D.C. members, 18 Oct 1965, from District Executive, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, work in local government. Draft municipal program, 8 Mar 1966. 5 leaves duplicated typescript. Attached : Circular letter to D.C. members and Branches, 10 Mar 1966, from District Executive, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, asking for discussion and suggestions. Alterations to Draft municipal program, 9 Jul 1966. 4 leaves duplicated typescript, initials EB at top. Candid Comment : Paddington, Petrie Terrace, Red Hill, March 1967. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Authorised by V. Englart. Transport, military expenditure, hospitals. For the peaceful development of Cairns. 4 pages printed. Joe Howe, waterside workers’ leader, candidate for the Cairns Council.

North Queensland District Conference call for full employment in North Queensland to deal with problems caused by mechanisation and automation. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Conference held in Townsville, June 1959. A people’s plan for North Queensland. 10 pages duplicated typescript. Issued by the North Queensland District Committee of the Communist Party of Australia, 1 Jun 1960. 1967 North Queensland District Conference report, Communist Party of Australia. 17 pages duplicated typescript. Letter to Mr Roberts, Chairman, Country Party, 17 May 1968, signed F. Bishop, Secretary, North Queensland District Committee, Communist Party of Australia. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Unemployment, northern development. North Q'ld. District Conference, October 1968. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Programme. Concerning the Draft Charter of Democratic Rights. 6 leaves duplicated typescript. Cairns. District Conference report for discussion : Some observations on the Australian Sugar Industry, 1968. 7 leaves duplicated typescript. Mackay. District Conference material - report for discussion on sugar. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Outline of District Conference report to presented to North Queensland District conference, October 5th & 6th 1968. 9 leaves duplicated typescript. Trade Unions. 6 leaves duplicated typescript. Legislative Assembly, Queensland. Tuesday, 10th September, 1968. Question 12 : Mr Tucker to ask the Minister for Lands. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Employment on Palm Island, differential rates of pay between Aborigines and "Europeans". Education - Cairns. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Townsville - draft report on education. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Coal and northern development. 6 leaves duplicated typescript. North Queensland report 1986, by Stan Heilbronn. 6 leaves photocopied typescript. Attached : Letter, 12 May 1986, from Stan Heilbronn, some corrections. 1 leaf photocopied typescript.

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North West Branch Circular letter to members, 16 Nov 1973, from Branch executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Next meeting. Circular letter to members, 8 Mar 1974, from Branch executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Next meeting. Draft. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript. Doubts about new socialist party. Another copy, name at top Bacon, handwritten notes.

Party Education Broad, Murray. Lecture on Marxist philosophy. 7 leaves photocopied typescript. Lecture given 7 Oct 1979. Circular letter to Ted Bacon, 11 Apr 1972, from Peter Lammiman, Education Action Group. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, name added in ink. Circular letter to S.C. members, Branch Secretaries & interested comrades, 27 May 1972, from QSC Marxist Education Committee. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Functions of the Committee. Circular letter to S.C. members, Branch Secretaries & interested members, 8 Jun 1972, from Marxist Education Group. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, with handwritten note to Ted from Patsy. Proposed activities. Circular letter to SC members, Branch Secs, interested comrades, 23 Jun 1978, from E.A. Bacon, for Education Group. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Education classes. Fritz, Charles A. Bertrand Russell's construction of the external world : extracts. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Gollan, W. Alienation and the individual in capitalist society. May lecture series, 1967. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Inozemtsev, N. Lenin's theory of imperialism and present-day reality. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Also two other articles translated from Soviet periodicals, typescript dated 19 May 1967. Lenin, V.I. Dialectics and eclecticism : `school' and `apparatus'; from Selected works, vol. 9. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Lenin on the epistemological roots of idealism (rough translation of a article from a Soviet philosophical journal). 11 pages duplicated typescript. Manila folder, with Classes material, and E. Bacon written on front. Marxism is irrelevant!? 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Discussion evenings, 1971. Marxist discussion series - no. 2. 1 leaf typescript. Meeting 1 Apr 1973. Marxist political economy. Course outline. 4 pages duplicated typescript, with enrolment slip attached, not filled in. Pan Tse-nien. Let's all learn a little philosophy. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Reprinted from Peking Review, no. 12, 20 May 1958. V.I. Lenin's teaching of imperialism and modernity : on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of publication of Lenin's Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism. 38 leaves duplicated typescript.

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Pensioners A state of emergency. 2 pages printed. Issued by the Communist Party Social Welfare Committee (Qld), Jul 1971. Rally to raise pensions, Wednesday 21 Jul 1971. Social welfare : a right - not a handout. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Published by the Communist Party of Australia, Social Welfare Group, Oct 1984. Circular letter, 14 May 1986, from Terry Burke. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Electricity rebates, meeting held, another planned. Circular letter, Eva & Ted written into greeting, 30 May 1986, from Terry Burke. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Electricity rebates for pensioners.

Primary Products Why the govt’s secrecy? 8 Jul 1964. 4 pages printed. Royalties from Moonie oil. What is the future for sugar? 4 pages duplicated typescript. 1966 sugar crisis. Comalco, the golden goose. 2 pages printed. Authorised by C. Gifford, 19 Jun 1970. In the scriptures ‘the mountain laboured and brought forth a mouse’, but in the Isa - the workers laboured and brought forth a Mammoth . . . 4 pages printed typescript. Authorised by C. Gifford, 3 Sep 1970. Profits.

Rents and Rates United effort against revaluations. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Published by R.D. Gentle, 24 Apr 1962. Rate rises and public housing rent rises.

SEQEB strike Joh must go! 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated Aug 1982 in ballpoint.

Springbok Tour, 1971 State of emergency! Making the Springboks feel at home. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Authorised by C. Gifford, 13 Jul 1971.

State Committee Statement on the situation in Queensland by the Central Secretariat, Communist Party of Australia. 4 pages printed. Issued by State Executive to Party Members in Queensland. Stamped in various places S.C. Library, and Communist Party of Australia, Queensland State Committee, handwritten at top : Please return to file. A People's plan for the Australian sugar industry. Brisbane : Queensland State Committee, Communist Party of Australia, [195?]. 12 p. Pencil marks throughout, annotations on several pages.

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Extracts from Report to Joint SC-B[risbane] D[istrict] C[ommittee] meeting, 10/11 Sep 1966. 9 leaves carbon copy typescript. Finance. [Political report, 1968?]. 10 leaves carbon copy typescript, some handwritten corrections. International position and local repercussions. [By Ted?]. Notes for State Committee meeting [1970?]. 4 pages duplicated typescript, with handwritten notes and scribbles, name E. Bacon at top. Party reorganisation. Minutes of QSC meeting, September 26, 27, 1970. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Circular letter to S.C. members, 25 Nov 1970. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Agenda for next meeting. Circular letter to S.C. members, 25 Aug 1971, from Q.S.C. Executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, names Eva & Ted at top. Next meeting. Attached : Resolution adopted by National Committee, 20- 22 August 1971, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, marks in ballpoint; also Circular letter to All members of the C.P.A., adopted by the National Committee, 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Circular letter to S.C. members, 23 Sep 1971, from QSC executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, with handwritten correction. Party reorganisation and People's Bookshop. Scrutineer's report, 22 Oct 1971. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, names Eva & Ted written at top; another copy, name Peter [Lammiman?] written at top. Election of Committee on Party reorganisation. Circular letter to Branch secretaries & S.C. members, 26 Nov 1971, from QSC executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, with name Eva Bacon at top. Attached : 3 pages photocopied typescript and print, articles on hazards of lead in petrol. Another copy, with name Ted Bacon. Circular letter to Branches and S.C. members, 19 Jan 1972, from QSC executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, name Ted B. written at top. State conference. Circular letter to S.C. members, 26 Jan 1972, from Q.S.C. executive per C.G. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Next meeting, State conference State and Federal elections. Attached : Brisbane Feb 4 protest against New Guinea repression, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; Draft agenda for State conference, 2 pages duplicated typescript, pencil note; Draft proposals for State conference, 3 pages duplicated typescript, with pencil notes. Circular letter to S.C. members, 9 Feb 1972, from Q.S.C. executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Attached : Detailed proposals on the conduct of State conference, 8 pages duplicated typescript. Circular letter to Branch secretaries and SC members, 11 Feb 1972, from QSC executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, names Eva & Ted written at top. Change to group meeting times. S.C. Agenda, 16/3/72. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, handwritten notes. Circular letter to S.C. members, 17 Mar 1972, from C. Gifford. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Decisions of meeting on 16th. Circular letter to S.C. members, Conference & Congress delegates, Branch Secretaries, 13 Apr 1972, from QSC executive per C.G. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Report back meeting from Congress. Circular letters to S.C. members & Branch secretaries, 21 Jun 1972, from C. Gifford. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, name Ted written at top. One enclosing brochures on Communist Workers' Conference, the other giving notice of membership cards to be issued for the coming year. Circular letter to Branch secretaries, Interest group convenors & S.C. members, 4 Jul 1972, from QSC per C.G.; appended letter to Branch secretaries. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Activities. ______

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Circular letter to S.C. members & Branch secretaries, 28 Jul 1972, from C. Gifford. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Agenda items for next State Committee meeting. Circular letter to S.C. members, 31 Jul 1972, from C. Gifford. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Attached : Circular letter to all CPA members, 2 pages duplicated typescript, campaigning for Communist Senate candidates in 1972 election. Letter to State Committee, 4 Nov 1972, from Julie Hawkins. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Women oppressed in the Party. Letter to Members of State Committee & Ecology Group, 22 Nov 1972, from Kev Donovan. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Attached : letter from Doreen Shanahan, 3 pages duplicated typescript, role of ecology in revolution. Minutes of State Committee meeting 27.11.72. 2 pages duplicated typescript, handwritten correction. Minutes of State Committee meeting 30/1/73. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, name Eva B. at top. Circular letter to S.C. members and Branch & Special Interest groups reps, 1 Mar 1973, from C. Gifford. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Attached : Notes of report on the Party, March 10 & 11 S.C. meeting, C.G. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Decisions of extended State Committee meeting, 10 & 11 March, 1973. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, two copies, one with name Eva B at top, and marking in ballpoint, the other with name Ted B. Letter to S.C. members, 28 Mar 1973, from C. Gifford. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, two copies, one with name Eva at top, the other with name Ted. No meeting. Circular letter to State Committee members & representatives from Branches and Special Interest Groups, 26 July 1973, from C. Gifford. 2 pages duplicated typescript, marks in ballpoint. Next meeting. Decisions of August 4 & 5 [1973] extended State Committee meeting. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Praxis, no. 2, Mar 1974. Contains list of names, note from Charlie [Gifford] to Ted, other notes, on papers loose inside. Circular letter to State Committee members, 8 Jul 1974, from C. Gifford. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, two copies, one with name Eva at top, the other with name Ted. Attached : draft report to S.C. meeting on conditions in Queensland, 3 pages duplicated typescript. Circular letter to S.C. members, 7 Aug 1974, from C. Gifford. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Draft procedure for S.C. meeting. State Committee meeting, March 14, 1976. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Minutes. Attached : Report on State Committee based on Tribune collective discussion, by Joyce Slater, 2 pages duplicated typescript. Walkington, Lee. Letter of resignation from the State Committee, undated. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, names Eva & Ted written at top. Broad, Murray. Some ideas on industrial work, 18/5/81. 6 pages photocopied typescript, marks and notes in ballpoint. State Committee. Correspondence between State Committee and Mackay District, and between State Committee and North Queensland District, September 1983 and State Committee meeting, Executive Report, q18 October 1983. ______

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State Committee report by Lee Bermingham Circular letter to Dear Comrade, 16 July [1986], from Terry Burke, organiser, National Committee Resolutions, Attached: Letter to all party members 31 June 1986 from the National Executive; Proposed draft points for National Committee resolution on Socialist renewal Circular re meetings on the new left party, 20 November 1986 Circular letter to Party members from Terry Burke for State Committee, 15 December Circular Letter from Paul Norton to Judy Stevens, 12 March 1986

State Conference Resolution of the Queensland State Conference, CPA, Brisbane, September 1955 Folder: CPA, Queensland Branch, State Conference, 1967. Includes programme and papers Newspaper clippings: Telegraph News-Pictorial, Brisbane, State Conference, 1967 Folder: CPA, Queensland Branch, State Conference, 1967. Name of E. Bacon written across top Untitled address to CPA, Queensland Branch, State Conference, 1969 Discussion notes for proposed 1972 CPA QLD State Conference 15 minute opening themes of anti-war, anti-imperialist & anti-racist, 29 February 1972 Circular letter from C Glifford re CPA State Conference May 1974, 1 February 1974 Folder: CPA, QLD Branch State Conference, 25 –26 Mat 1974. Illustrated cover with names of E. Bacon and E. A. Bacon and handwritten notes Folder: CPA Queensland State Conference, 1976. Includes conference papers, letters, motions and reports Folder: CPA State Conference, 1979. Includes programmes and resolutions Circular letter form Kevin Donovan for State Executive, 9 September 1980 E. Bacon CPA State Conference papers CPA Queensland Branch State Conference programmes and motions to be put, 26/27 April 1986 Bill Hill report to State Conference re Welfare, 27/4/86 Organisers report to State Conference re Part work, 26 & 27 April 1986 Political report to State Conference, 27/4/86

Queensland State Elections ‘Which Way Ahead,’ 1963 election CPA how to vote information, 1980 ‘Put the peoples voice back into parliament’, Murray Broad, 1980 ‘Joh must go’, 22 October 1983

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Students E. Bacon press statement re accusation that ‘professional agitators [had been] imported into Queensland schools and [the] university, 7 May 1969 Flyer re University of Queensland radical student movement

Vietnam War CPA position on the anti-war movement, C. Gifford, 16 March1972 Circular letter, State Committee re anti-war demonstration, 12 January 1973 Draft statement on the May 1970 Moratorium Report by H. Hamilton of a meeting of anti-war activists held in Sydney, 9 April 1973 ‘The Nuclear Disarmament Movement’ Peace Activists Meeting, [Joan Sheares] ‘Stop Bombs: Cease Fire, America Out!’, authorised by Peter Lammiman ‘Stop the War in Vietnam, it could lead to nuclear catastrophe, return to Geneva peace terms.

Women CPA constitution needs change to deal with sexual harassment Motion on sexism, n.d. [1980s?] ‘Shit Work’, n.d. [1970s?] ‘Are you child bearing or ball bearing?’ 10 October [1971?] Folder: Communist Party Women’s Collective, 1972/73 Handwritten notes re Women’s Liberation and Communism, Eva Bacon, 1972 ‘For women (& men): male domination and the elections’, May 1972 Circular letter from Eva Bacon re meeting to improve CPA’s electoral leaflet on women, 18 October 1972 Forum: liberation of women, 5 November 1972 Women’s Collective meeting, 29 Nov 1972. Attached letter to State Committee from Julie Hawkins, re Women’s oppression in the Party, 4 November 1972 Women’s Collective leaflet: ‘Conflict between Marxism and Feminism as Philosophies’, 29 November 1972 Circular letter from Eva Bacon re Women’s issue of Tribune newspaper, 9 January 1973 Queensland Commission of Inquiry Into the Status of Women. Submission by the Women’s Collective, CPA Minutes of Women’s Collective discussion, 14 January [1973] Minutes of Women’s Collective discussion, 4 February [1973] ‘Female awards & oppression’, meeting of women cleaners, University of Queensland, 8 March 1973

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Circular Letter from Sydney [Women’s] Collective, 19 March 1973 ‘Sex and the Struggle for Peace’, Condference on Peace and the Needs of People, April 19 1973 Report on State Committee meeting, Women’s Collective, 1/4/73 Minutes and notes, Womens Collective meeting, 1/7/73 Women’s Collective discussion, 1 Dece4mber 1973 Circular letter re preparations for 24th National Congress, 29 November 1973 Circular letter, 7 Jan 1974, from Brisbane Women's Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Next meeting. Attached : Letter, 20 Dec 1973, from Mavis Robertson, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, women's meeting to be held at Minto in January; paper by Esther Aarons, duplicated on other side of letter from M. Robertson, payment for housewives. Minutes of Women's Collective, 16 Feb 1974. 2 pages duplicated typescript, name Eva written at top. Attached : Women and social liberation : draft, from National Conference of Communist Women drafting committee, 2 pages duplicated typescript; and Representation of women in the leadership of the CPA, prepared by Mavis Robertson, 2 pages duplicated typescript. Women's Collective discussion, 23/3/74. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Minutes. Circular letter 17 May 1974, from Brisbane Women's Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. State Conference. Women's Collective Communist Party of Australia - notes from discussion held on 28 Sep 1974. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Feminism / Socialism. 4 leaves printed typescript. Report back on Women's Conference in Melbourne to be given 19 Oct [1974]. Abortion in Australia - the facts. 4 pages printed typescript, dated 1975 in ballpoint at top. Issued by Women’s Collective, Communist Party of Australia, Queensland. Manila folders, one dated 1975 on front and marked Theory inside; the other marked Women's Collective. Women and social liberation : the socialist alternative, as projected at the 24th National Congress of the Communist Party of Australia. 4 pages printed. Issued by the Women's Collective of the Communist Party of Australia (Qld.), 8 Mar 1975. Communist women & the Women’s House in Brisbane . . January 1976. 5 pages duplicated typescript, initials EB handwritten at front. Women’s Collective C.P.A., undated [May 1976]. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Recent meetings, correspondence from interstate. Thomas, Kath. Women and Trade Unions. 3 leaves duplicated typescript, dated 1976 on front. Circular letter, 18 Nov 1976, from Marie [Crisp] & Eva for Women’s Collective. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Asking non-attenders to come to meetings, future activities. Circular letter, 4 Nov 1977, from Lyn Hovey, Sandra Zurbo. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, with name Eva and note from Lyn handwritten, dated 12 Dec 1977 in another hand. Next issue of Join Hands to be radically different. Letter to Brisbane Women's Collective, 2 Feb 1978, from Gloria G[arton], Ruth Connell, for Tribune Collective. 1 leaf typescript with handwritten address and signatures. International Women's Day issue of Tribune.

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Meeting of Women’s Collective, CPA, Saturday 18 Feb 1978. 1 leaf typescript. Minutes. Letter to Gloria and Ruth, 19 Feb 1978. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript, incomplete. Suggestions for special issue of Tribune. By Sandra Bloodworth as told to Eva Bacon. 4 leaves carbon copy typescript, handwritten correction. Article for Join Hands. Letter to Lyn, 21 Feb 1978. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript, unsigned [from Eva Bacon]. Join Hands. Letter to Women's Collective Sydney, 21 Feb 1978, from [Queensland] Women's Collective. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Join Hands. Letter to Eva, 15 Mar 1978, from Lyn. 1 leaf handwritten. Sending photocopy of original letter about Join Hands, photocopy not found. Circular letter, 2 May 1978, from Brisbane Women’s Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Next meeting, residential school planned. Women’s Collective, 20th May 1978. 1 leaf typescript, incomplete, some marks in ballpoint. Minutes. Circular letter, 14 Jun 1978, from Women’s Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, addressee’s name not filled in. Contributions for Join Hands. Circular letter, undated [Jun 1978?], from Women’s Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Future plans. Circular letter, 5 Jul 1978, from C.P.A. Women’s Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Study weekend. Circular letter to CPA Women's Collectives, 25 Aug 1978, from Linda Rubinstein for the [Melbourne] Women's Collective. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. New venue for national meeting. Letter to Linda, 11 Sep 1978, from Women's Collective Brisbane. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Attendance at meeting, news. Letter to Gloria, 11 Sep 1978, from Eva. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. News. Letter to Eva, 25 Sep 1978, from Mavis Robertson. 1 leaf typescript. Join Hands. Letter to Mavis, 1 Oct 1978, [from Eva]. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript, no signature. Join Hands. Letter to Eva, 5 Oct 1978, from Mavis. 1 leaf handwritten. Join Hands. Letter to Gloria [Garton], 18 Oct 1978, from Eva. 2 leaves carbon copy handwritten. Join Hands. Circular letter, 20 Oct 1978, from Women’s Collective C.P.A. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Study day. Another partial copy. Circular letter, 23 Oct 1978, from Women’s Collective C.P.A. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Various future activities, requesting donations. Letter to Dear Friends, 31 Oct 1978, from Lesley Corbett, WAIT Women’s Collective. 1 leaf handwritten. Asking for material on women and unemployment. Letter to Eva, 8 Dec 1978, from Norma. 1 leaf typescript. Queensland Civil Liberties march, enclosing leaflet on Italian abortion law. Letter to Judy, 11 Dec 1978, from Women's Collective Brisbane. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Women's Conference in Melbourne.

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Letter to Jane [Thompson], undated [11 Dec 1978?], from Women's Collective. 2 pages carbon copy typescript. Women's Conference in Melbourne. Letter to Frank [Bishop], 11 Dec 1978, from Women's Collective. 2 pages carbon copy typescript. Women's Conference in Melbourne. Letter to C.P.A. Women's Collective Melbourne, 11 Dec 1978, from Brisbane Women's Collective. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript. Women's Conference in Melbourne. Letter to Lesley Corbett, 12 Dec 1978, from Eva Bacon for the Women’s Collective. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript. Answer too late to be of use. Summary of the national Party Women's Conference held in Melbourne, January 27, 28, 29, 1979, compiled jointly by Josie Moynihan & Patsy Hovey. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Letter to Brisbane Women's Collective, 1 Feb 1979, from Gloria Garton. 1 leaf typescript. Tribune, International Women's Day issue. Circular letter, undated [before 16 Feb 1979], from Brisbane Women’s Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Next meeting, demonstration against anti-abortion bill. Attached : Petition to reject the Lusher motion, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, not filled in; Circular letter undated from Bronwen Beechey on behalf of Women’s Abortion Action Campaign, enclosing petition, 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Letter to Gloria, 7 Feb 1979, from Eva for the Women's Collective. 1 leaves handwritten carbon copy. Tribune, International Women's Day issue. Letter to Eva, 13 Feb 1979, from Gloria. 5 leaves typescript. Tribune, International Women's Day issue. Minutes W[omen’s] C[ollective], 16/2/79. 2 pages handwritten. Letter to Gloria, 19 Feb 1976 [ie. 1979], from Eva. 2 leaves handwritten carbon copy. Tribune, International Women's Day issue. Letter to Mavis [Robertson], 19 Feb 1979, from Eva. 2 leaves handwritten carbon copy. News. Letter to Leila Mallett, 6 Mar 1979, from Marge Croucher. 1 leaf handwritten carbon copy. Thanks. The Qld Govt oppresses women. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, dated IWD [International Women’s Day] 1979 in handwriting. Authorised by the C.P.A. Circular letter, 12 Mar 1979, from Eva Bacon for Women’s Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Meeting on 16 Feb 1979. Circular letter, 12 Mar 1979, from Eva Bacon for Women’s Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, handwritten correction. Mavis Robertson coming. CPA Women’s Collective, 26 Apr 1979. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Minutes. Circular letter, 10 May 1979, from Women’s Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Study day. Women come join us on International Women’s Day. 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated 1980 in ballpoint. Authorised by the Women’s Collective of the Communist Party of Australia, 1 Mar 1980. Feminist Peace Social. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. 27 Sep [1980?]. Invitation from the C.P.A. Women’s Collective, proceeds towards sending a U.A.W. delegate to the Copenhagen Peace Conference. Smith, Tracey. Photographic history of women in the Party : circular letter, 1 Mar 1980. 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

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Women's Liberation and Rousseau : the rave of the French Revolution. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Letter to National Executive, 12 May 1980, from Eva Bacon Queensland Women’s Collective. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Women’s Newsletter. Kollontai capers. 1 leaf photocopied print. Women's night, 29 May 1981. Circular letter, 30 Jul 1982, from Kate and Julie for the Women’s Collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Joyce Stevens coming. Mercer, Sharmila. Sexism & political practice : issues in the women's movement & left political practice. 6 leaves photocopied typescript, dated 25 April 1986. International Women’s Day 1989. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Leaflet, Women’s Collective stall.

Marx, Karl Karl Marx : 100 not out, chaired by Alan Hunt. 9 leaves photocopied print, from Marxism Today, March 1983, pp. 7, 9-17. Discussion between Bob Rowthorn, Ralph Miliband, Anne Showstack Sassoon, Eric Hobsbawm.

People's Bookshop Catalogue and order form. 198*. 8 pages printed typescript.

Box 5 Abortion Circular letter, undated, from Erika Schwartz, University of Queensland Students’ Union Womens Rights organiser. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Demonstration planned. Contraception, abortion & no forced sterilisation - women decide! 2 pages duplicated typescript. Published by Women’s Abortion Action Campaign. International Day of Action, 31 Mar 1979. [Italian abortion law]. 10 pages duplicated typescript. Translations from two Italian articles, dated 22 Nov 1978 McIntosh, Philip. New birth control pill will cause headache for society. Photocopied press clipping from The Age, 16 Jan 1987, p. 11. RU 486.

ACTU Claim Below is the Australian Council of Trade Unions (A.C.T.U.) claim by personal representation upon the Prime Minister on March 11, 1969 for increased pensions, increased child endowment, increased maternity benefit, increased sickness or unemployment benefits. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Authorised by the Building Workers’ Industrial Union, April 1969.

ACTU Conference on Women Workers, Melbourne, 1972 Beattie, S. Report by Mrs S. Beattie, AMIEU delegate. 1 leaf typescript.

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ALP Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia, Queensland Branch. Executive statement re A.L.P. Disputes Tribunal decision to suspend Senator Geo. Georges and expulsion of Joe Harris, 18 Sep 1979. 1 leaf printed. Strong protest.

Apartheid Protest campaign Circular letter, 25 May 1969, from Ken McLeod, Denis Freney, Norm Docker. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Protest demonstrations, request for funds. Attached : A Statement from the Apartheid Protest Campaign concerning the official visit to Australia by Mr Jan Haak, South African Minister for Economic Affairs, 26 May 1969 : press release, 2 pages duplicated typescript; No ties with apartheid! 2 pages duplicated typescript.

Australia. Arbitration Act. Penal Clauses What’s behind the Court attack on Tram-Bus Union : Trade Unions versus Penal Powers. 1 leaf printed. Clarrie O’Shea.

Australia Commonwealth Employees Redeployment and Retirement Bill Defeat this C.E.R.R. of a bill. 2 pages printed, dated 1979 in ballpoint. Union activities.

Australia-U.S.S.R. Society Special notice to all members, 1 Oct 1968. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Moving house, Anthology of Australian verse translated into Russian.

Australian Aborigines * Handwritten note : Aborigines. 1 leaf. * Aboriginal funds need help! Send your donation today. 1 leaf photocopied typescript, half requesting donation, half letter to the Prime Minister, needing only address, date and signature of sender. Brockman Defence Campaign. Petition to J.T. Tonkin, Premier of Western Australia. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Not filled in Christophers, Barry E. Mr John Belia of Dajarra. 3 pages printed. Application for a Certificate of entitlement. Committee against Racism. Circular letter, 19 Jun 1972, signed M. Crisp. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Working towards Action Conference on Racism. Circular letter, 24 Feb 1972, signed Joe Harris. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Attached : Motions passed at the Racism and Education Conference, 1972, 4 pages duplicated typescript; Films against racism, 1 leaf duplicated typescript on back of unrelated leaf of duplicated typescript. Lovejoy, Frances H. A financial analysis of the Queensland Aborigines’ Welfare Fund : first draft. 9 pages duplicated typescript.

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McGinness, Joe. Report on Minister’s first tour to reserves and outback settlements - 17-22/1/73. 3 pages duplicated typescript, dated 23 Jan 1973. On July 14 stop work to stop racism. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Rally and march. Stopwork and march on July 14. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Authorised by C. Gifford, Jul 1972. National Aborigines Day. Support a treaty with Aboriginal Australians. 2 pages printed, folded in three. Prepared by the Brisbane Aboriginal Treaty Committee, undated, early 1980s. What hope justice? 6 pages printed. Rape and imprisonment of black women.

Australian Campaign to free Angela Davis and all political prisoners The truth about Angela Davis. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Reprinted from Tribune, 28 Apr 1971. Circular letter, 23 Aug 1971, from Kath Buckley, Mavis Robertson, Julia Freebury. 2 pages duplicated typescript, with form, not filled in, subscribing to bulletin and sending donation. Attached : National Bulletin, no. 1, Aug 1971, 14 pages duplicated typescript. Campaign to free political prisoners. Circular letter, 28 Sep 1972, from G. Garton. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : Form for donations, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, not filled in.

Australian Government Printing Service Rolfe, Patricia. Canberra’s word machine. Press clipping from Bulletin, 5 May 1987, p.82. Frank Thompson new publisher, future plans.

Australian Marxist Research Foundation Circular letter, Nov 1967, from E. Aarons. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Non-profit company to be set, aims and objectives, Board membership. Heading on first page : Australian Left Review. Circular about the proposed Marxist Research Foundation. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, incomplete, no Undersigned listed. Attached : P.P. McGuinness. Centenary for Marxism : The price of a cup of tea, or the Capitalist law of motion? Photocopy from The Australian Financial Review, 14 Sep 1967, another copy with markings in ink. Centenary of Das Kapital, volume 1. List of books published by the American Institute for Marxist Studies. 1 leaf duplicated typescript

Australian Social Welfare Union Circular letter, undated [Oct 1980], from Peter Davidson. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Transfer of State Family Assistance payments to Dept. of Social Security. Attached : Memo to voluntary welfare agencies and other interested bodies, 3 leaves duplicated typescript.

Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Notice and agenda of 6th general meeting, 11 Jan 1969. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Mitchell, Bruce. Comments from the President. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. About the Society, leaving Presidency.

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Australia’s Women : A Documentary History, edited by Kay Daniels and Mary Murnane Letter to Eva, 26 Feb 1979, from Mary Murnane. 1 leaf typescript, marked as answered 4 Mar 1979. Help wanted with copyright permissions. Attached : 2 anonymous reminiscences, each 2 leaves photocopied typescript.

Brisbane Trades Hall Unions which met in the first Brisbane Trades Hall, Turbot Street, Brisbane, Queensland, between 31/12/1896 and 30/6/1923. 8 leaves printed.

Broad Left Conference Bulletin no. 1, Feb 1986. Draft statements. Attached : Leaflet giving programme and registration form. “Women have a particular role to play. The left has often marginalised our concerns, and developed an approach which focuses on narrow issues.” 2 pages photocopied typescript, with name Jean Bowden written on original. Women’s participation in the Conference.

Budget 1976 This man is cleverer than we thought . .. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : Coming soon Impact, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, announcement; What way forward in the Medibank campaign? 2 pages duplicated typescript, authorised by the Queensland State Committee, Communist Party of Australia, 10 Aug 1976. Cohen, Barry (Member for Robertson). Contribution on Appropriation Bill no. 1 1978-79 in committee, on estimates for Dept of Home Affairs dealing with problems of women. 3 leaves printed, some underlining.

Budget rallies, 25 Aug 1970 Budg-et or smash-it? Published by the Revolutionary Socialist Party and the Worker Student Alliance. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Resolution to be presented to joint mass rallies on the 25th August, 1970. Australian Council of Trade Unions. 2 leaves duplicated typescript.

C.A.M.P. Campaign against Moral Persecution Letter, undated [Mar 1978?], from Mary Ann Ramsbotham, Feminist/Lesbian Conference Collective. 1 leaf handwritten. Attached : Leaflet about Feminist/Lesbian Conference to be held end of April, 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

CFCs Letter to Bronwyn Patrick, 5 May 1988, from Senator John Coulter, Australian Greens. 2 pages photocopied typescript. Private Member’s Bill to curb ozone-depleting substances.

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Circular letter to editors of newsletters, 19 May 1988, from Bronwyn Patrick. 1 leaf photocopied typescript, with handwritten corrections and signature. Support for the Bill. ‘Ozone-layer protection law will lead the world : Senator’. Press clipping, Courier-Mail, 13 Jul(?) 1988. Government Bill.

China Pravda article spotlights certain aspects of Party life in Communist Party of China. New Age, 17 May 1964, pp. 6-7, 14-16. Notes on the origins of the present developments in China. 20 pages duplicated typescript. [c1962].

Christian Democratic Movement CDM. Christian Democratic Movement, non-party political non-sectarian. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Anti-Communist organisation.

Citizens for Democracy Notice of meeting 10 Dec 1985. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : Form to register as Supporter of the ‘One person - one vote - one value’ campaign, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, not filled in. Why you should join the campaign for electoral justice in Queensland. 2 pages printed typescript. Meeting 10 Dec 1985. Attached : Petition to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, for equal suffrage, 1 leaf printed typescript, not filled in.

Civil Liberties A successful street march - the road to oranization [ie. organization]. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Student march 1979 (?) Some legal information for protesters. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Unionism, democratic rights under threat in West Australia, in Queensland. 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated 1979 in ballpoint. Authorised by Civil Liberties Campaign Group. Rally and march. What’s new from the devil’s kitchen. 2 pages printed typescript. Published by the Socialist Party of Australia, undated. Bjelke-Petersen government, late 1980s. Who taps phones? 1 leaf duplicated typescript, signed : A Group of Commonwealth Public Servants, Dec(?) 1971.

Civil Liberties Co-ordinating Committee By handing you this leaflet I have just broken the law! 2 pages duplicated typescript. Civil Liberties Co-ordinating Committee. Contribution from Women’s Caucus for C.L.C.C. tactics meeting 26.1.78. 2 pages duplicated typescript, handwritten notes showing which suggestions were accepted.

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Communist Party of Australia : history Blake, Jack. 1949 to 1956 - Stalinism or independence? 19 leaves photocopied typescript, heavily corrected in ballpoint in places. Derriman, Philip. Where to now comrades? 6 leaves photocopied print, from The Good Weekend, undated [1987].

Communists and the Labour Movement conference, 1980 Circular letter to all State and District Committees, 25 May 1980, from Carmel Shute. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, additions in handwriting. Not many bookings yet. 1920/1980, sixty years of struggle, sixty years for socialism. 4 pages printed. Preliminary programme and application form for conference. 1920/1980, sixty years of struggle, sixty years for socialism : the movement continues. 4 pages printed. Programme and application form for the conference.

Conference for Left Action Circular letter, undated, signed Committee of Sponsors. 2 leaves duplicated typescript, strip torn off first leaf, form offering help not filled in. Attached : Proposals for the Conference of Left Action, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; A Conference on Left and Anti-Establishment Forces (A proposal released for publication on 25.11.68), 2 leaves duplicated typescript, includes list of sponsors. Bulletin, no. 2, Jan 1969. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Meeting of sponsors. Circular letter to S[tate] C[ommittee] members, NQ D[istrict] C[ouncil] & all Branches, 31 Jan 1969, from Qld State Executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Support for the Conference. Bulletin, no. 3, Feb 1969. 6 pages duplicated typescript. Proposed agenda for Conference. Circular letter to sponsors, 18 Mar 1969, signed M. Robertson, K. McLeod. News. Circular letter to Delegates to the Conference for Left Action, 25 Mar 1969, from M. Robertson, K. McLeod. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Organisational details, enclosing Bulletin, no. 4. Bulletin, no. 4. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Agenda for Conference; form at back not filled in. Left Action Conference, 4,5,6,7 April, Agenda and Procedures. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. 2 copies, one unmarked, the other with name E. Bacon at top and marks and doodles on first two pages. Addresses to Conference : Baker, John S. Australia - myths and realities. 18 pages duplicated typescript. Playford, John. Neo-capitalism in Australia. 11 pages duplicated typescript. Clancy, Pat. No real democracy - while penal powers remain. 10 leaves duplicated typescript. Brady, Bill. Whatever happened to democracy? The control and use of the mass media, who owns it, how it is controlled. 11 pages duplicated typescript. Wertheim, Peter. Need for moral example to “rekindle hope”. 7 pages duplicated typescript. Carmichael, Laurie. The trade unions and the left. 13 pages duplicated typescript. O’Neill, Dan. Strategies for action. 15 pages duplicated typescript.

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Gould, Bob. Strategies for action. 6 pages duplicated typescript. Stanfield, Brian. The Catholic church : actualities and potentialities. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Heffernan, J.E. Paper. 12 pages duplicated typescript. Aarons, Laurie. Strategy for social change - a Communist view. 23 pages duplicated typescript, red underlining on first page. Freney, Denis. Strategies for action. 11 pages duplicated typescript. Laver, Brian. Strategies for social change. 9 leaves duplicated typescript. Other material : Why we are not professionals : a statement signed by 176 teachers in the ACT. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Conference for Left Action : policy proposals. 8 pages duplicated typescript. proposals signed by various members of the Conference. Decisions of the Conference for Left Action. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Resolution of the Conference Committee, based on proposals for continuing action. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. 2 copies, with varying handwritten additions. Conference for Left Action : attendance. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Tables. Income and expenditure account of a Conference for Left Action; prepared by the Finance Sub- Committee. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Manila folder, with name E. Bacon and Conference for Left Action written on it. Circular letter, 12 Jun 1969, from Brian Dunnett. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Conference on Workers’ Control as follow-up.

Discrimination The Sex Discrimination Act and advertisers. Published by the Human Rights Commission. 6 pages printed, one sheet folded in three. Sorry, it’s gone ! Real estate agents and owners and the Racial Discrimination Act. Published by the Human Rights Commission. 4 pages printed.

Ecology Ecology Action. Special Bulletin. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Project to stop the Concorde.

El Salvador El Salvador : reign of terror. 4 pages printed, date : May Day 1981, handwritten.

Expo 1988 Have your say on the redevelopment of the south bank : public meeting. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Meeting 15 Sep 1988 called by Surg, Southside Urban Research Group and Rap-up, Research Action for Popular Urban Planning.

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Federal Elections 1980 election : restore Australia’s spirit of national pride and independence. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. Vote for The Party to Expose the Petrov Conspiracy for the Senate.

Feminist Festival Excell, Lillian. Circular letter. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, addressed to Women’s Collective in writing on verso. Festival proposed, no date.

Fightback Bowden, Warren. Industrial democracy : A paper delivered to a Fightback seminar, 15 Mar 1987. 7 pages photocopied typescript. Circular letter, 2 Feb 1987, from Michael Macdonald. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Attached : Industry policy paper requires study, prepared by Warren Bowden, 22 Jan 1987, 5 pages photocopied typescript; Application form to join Fightback Committee, 1 leaf printed, not filled in. Electricity Supply Bill : press clipping. [Courier-Mail?], 8 Mar 1985. Reprint of the Bill. National Fightback Conference. 6 pages photocopied print, from at least three different sources. Trade union demands for better pay and conditions. National Left Fightback Conference Statement, Easter 1987 Melbourne. 1 leaf printed. Form for sponsorship at bottom, not filled in. Queensland outlaws strikes. 1 leaf printed typescript. Projected actions.

Fisheries Report of interview with fishermen in Townsville including a deckhand who has recently returned from the Gulf of Carpentaria : with Jim Peterson, organiser of B.W.I.U. Also a further evening’s discussion with the deckhand : Jim Peterson and Frank Bishop. 2 pages carbon copy typescript. Conditions in the industry.

Foco Manilla folder, with handwritten title Foco. Foco Club : statement of major financial movements since commencement. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Zetlin, Diane and Zetlin, Larry. [Untitled : Article about Foco for Oz magazine]. 4 leaves typescript, signed in pencil and some pencilled corrections.

France Political resolution, 18th Congress of the French Communist Party, 1967. 33 pages duplicated typescript, name Ted B. and note written on front. French poll favours the Gaullists, Pompidou seen set for Elysee, from Richard Breeze. 1 leaf typescript, copied from Sydney Morning Herald, 3 Jun 1969.

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Repression : France ‘73. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Authorised by the Socialist Workers’ League, Communist League and Communist Party, 14 Jul 1973. Ban on Communist League. Rochet, Waldek. The struggle in France : report to the Central Committee, Communist Party of France, 1968. 21 pages duplicated printing. Circulated by Alf Watt.

Gibson, Ralph Ralph Gibson biography fund. Circular letter, undated from Manning Clark and others. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Thanks for contributions, biography to be privately published.

Health Coping with stress. 4 pages photocopied typescript. Produced by Leichhardt Women’s Health Centre, published by the Brisbane Women’s Health Centre. Dwyer, Nan. Women’s health to join community network. Press clipping from Sunday Mail. 15 Mar 1987. Fertility action inquiry fund. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Inquiry into treatment of women in the National Women’s Hospital, Acland. The menopause. 6 pages photocopied typescript. Women’s Health Information Centre Fact Sheet, no. 3. Women’s Health Information Centre, London. Pre-menstrual tension. 5 pages photocopied typescript. Published by the Brisbane Women’s Health Centre. Vaginal thrush, also known as Monilia or yeast. 2 pages photocopied typescript. Produced by Adelaide Women’s Community Health Centre, published by Brisbane Women’s Health Centre. Your pharmacist gives good advice, all you have to do is . . . ask! 4 pages printed. Calendar for 1987 and 1988 with notes on pharmacists’ help, one marked with ballpoint.

Homelessness Trundle, Peter. Homeless children : Australia’s shame. Press clipping from Courier-Mail, 7 Apr 1987, p.4.

Indonesia Budiardjo, Carmel. Three years as a political prisoner in Indonesia. 4 pages duplicated typescript.

Inflation Gifford, J.K. Inflation is a crime, not a disease. Press clipping. Courier-Mail, 13 Oct 1975, p. 5.

International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women Letter to Eva Bacon, 29 Nov 1975, from Diana Russell. 1 leaf handwritten. Tribunal postponed.

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International Women’s Day International Women’s Day Committee. 1 leaf typescript, dated 1959 in ballpoint. Proposed activities. International Women’s Day, 8 March 1975. Agenda. 1 leaf carbon copy handwritten and typescript. Programme of events. Union of Australian Women, Queensland. International Women’s Day 1975. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Minutes of International Women’s Day 1980 planning meeting, 1 May 1979. 1 leaf printed typescript. Attached : Questionnaire on preferred form of International Women’s Day. 2 leaves printed typescript, not filled in. Letter to Eva, 3 Jul [1990], from Irene [IWD (SA) Inc]. 1 leaf handwritten. Sending copy of Elizabeth Pearson. A brief contribution to the herstory of women in South Australia. International Women’s Day. 4 pages printed. History of International Women’s Day. 1990. International Women’s Day luncheon. 1 leaf printed. Tickets on sale for Adelaide IWD luncheon and book launch, 1990.

Ireland Lenin on Ireland & revolution 1916. 3 pages duplicated typescript, headed Camp Hill Branch Students, 4th January 1971, name Eva handwritten at top. Manifesto of the Irish republican movement. 11 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : Circular letter, 31 Jan 1972, signed B.V. Stewart, State Organiser, Sean South & Fergal O’Hanlon Society, 1 leaf duplicated typescript. A people’s fight - . Authorised by the Irish Solidarity Committee, 15 May 1972. 1 leaf duplicated. Ireland, our island. Travel supplement to Sunday Mail (Brisbane), and other papers, 4 Nov 1990. 38 p., ill.

Italians in Australia Letter to Don Dunstan, M.P., 28 Mar 1969, from G.S. Gorman for Australian workers on Gidgealpa pipeline. 4 leaves carbon copy typescript. No jobs for Australians. Attached : List of other addressees of letter, 1 leaf carbon copy typescript.

Japan Report on eighteenth Congress, Japanese Communist Party, November 25-29, 1987. 7 leaves duplicated typescript. List of participants, 18th Congress of JCP. 4 leaves duplicated typescript.

Kennedy, Joseph Barker, Gary. ‘Old Joe’ Kennedy. 2 pages carbon copy typescript, copied from Courier-Mail, 23 Jan 1961.

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Left Book Club Meeting of Left Book Club board held 28/4/88. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. On verso : Circular letter, undated, from Peter Auty, privileges of membership.

Levy, Hyman. Jews and the national question Dutt, R. Palme. An anti-Marxist book on the Jewish question : review. 5 pages duplicated typescript. Reprinted from World News, 8 Mar 1958.

May Day Statement of policy on youth and students. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Young people marching with the Building Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia (Queensland Branch), dated 26 May 1969. May Day : just a holiday. 2 pages printed, dated 1978 in ballpoint. Published by Alliance of Revolutionary Communists.

Medibank, 1976 Folder marked Medibank, with name Eva Bacon and some doodles. Hayden, Bill (MHR for Oxley). Press statements, 10 Jun 1976, 18 Jun 1976, 29 Jun 1976, 5 Jul 1976. 2 leaves photocopied typescript each. Doctors, govt sabotage Medibank. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Lynched! Medibank, social security, jobs, living standards. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Authorised by the Communist Party of Australia. Medibank issues. 2 leaves photocopied typescript. Attached : Detailed statement by the Labor Health Ministers and Shadow Ministers, 4 leaves photocopied typescript. Save Medibank. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Issued by the Socialist Party of Australia. Save Medibank from the Frazer gang! 4 leaves printed, mini supplement to The Amalgamated News, National Council of the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union. Medibank strike. A call to University administrative and academic staff of the University of Queensland. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, calling for 24 hour stoppage. Queenslanders worst hit by Federal Government policy on Medibank. 2 pages duplicated typescript, calling for stop work. Authorised by H.R. Hamilton, BWIU Queensland Branch. Strike for Medibank. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Authorised by Communist Party of Australia, Queensland State Committee. Why the 24-hour strike? 2 pages photocopied printing, authorised by F. Whitby, Trades Hall. Press clippings. Anderson, Colin. ‘Families may lose on private health cover’. Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 5 Sep 1976. Brown, Wallace. ‘Medibank rates for 2 services; private to come’. [Courier-Mail], 23 Jul 1976. ‘By October 1, you’ll need to make a decision about your health insurance’. Press advertisement, no source no date. Chaucer, Patricia. ‘Doctors could . . .’ Letter to the editor. [Courier-Mail], 3 Aug 1976.

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‘Collusion claim on Medibank’. Courier-Mail, 15 Jul 1976. Also ‘Silent on new plan’. ‘Discipline by unions “serious”’. [Courier-Mail], 12 Aug 1976. Also ‘Undercut plan denial by funds’. ‘Doctors fee is Medibank key’. [Courier-Mail], 2 Aug 1976. ‘Future Medibank levy rise : Street’. [Courier-Mail], 3 Aug 1976. Gordon, Douglas. ‘Medibank - much ado about little’. Courier-Mail, 18 Aug 1976. ‘Health funds use “ill-gotten” funds claim’. [Courier-Mail], 14 Aug 1976. Herbert, H.W. ‘Both plans botches : defer Medibank change’. Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 11 Jul 1976. ‘How to choose a health cover’. Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 12 Sep 1976. Also ‘Crooks reap fortune in sickness benefits’; ‘Exercise more - or stay hungry’. ‘Less on health after October 1’. Courier-Mail, undated. Lever, Mark. ‘Can we improve the smiles?’ Courier-Mail, 27 Aug 1976. School dental health. ‘Low income aid another change for Medibank’. Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 29 Aug 1976. ‘Medibank expects most will decide to pay levy’. Courier-Mail, undated. ‘NSW health fund to beat Medibank’. [Courier-Mail], 13 Aug 1976. ‘Pensioners in M-trap’. Telegraph (Brisbane), 29 Sep 1976. Summers, Anne, and Freeman, Peter. ‘Your guide to the Medimaze’. National Times, 2-7 Aug 1976.

Migrants News release from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Hon. M.J.R. MacKellar, M.P., 24 Sep 1978. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Funding for migrant projects.

Miscellaneous Campbell, Colin. Unionists remember labour struggles. Photocopy from Townsville Bulletin, 9 Jun 1987. North Queensland Popular History Group conference on North Queensland labour history. How to make the system work : information sheet no. 1, unemployment benefits. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Unofficial first draft. Marx, Karl. Critique of political economy : preface. Extract. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Materialism. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Extract from Discussion contributions on Dialogue between Christianity and Marxism by Dr John Lewis. O’Neill, Errol. Popular front. Programme of performance at La Boite Theatre, 1986. 4 pages printed. Rothstein, Richard. Representative democracy in S.D.S. 4 pages duplicated typescript, dated March 1973. Scrap of Christmas card(?), with handwritten notes, dated 30 Jan 1980. [Three unattached pages. P. 9, also numbered p. 2, 1 leaf carbon copy typescript, handwritten corrections, subject : Party work among Aborigines. Pp. 3-4, 2 pages duplicated typescript, subject

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: Price and income control. P.6, 1 leaf carbon copy typescript, last page of an article, subject : Violence and revolution.] [Untitled]. 6 pages, partly carbon copy and partly duplicated typescript. Short paragraphs mainly on communism and capitalism.

Mozambique Wiryamu - one more massacre. 6 pages duplicated typescript. Portuguese rule.

New Left Party Australian socialism : a proposal for renewal. 2 pages printed. Published by the CPA. The need for a renewal of progressive politics in Australia has never been clearer or more urgent. 4 pages photocopied print (from original 4 page leaflet?). Aims and objects, and contact addresses. Time to act : For a new left party. 6 pages printed. Aims and principles for the party and application form. Views on formation of a New Left Party, published by the Association for Communist Unity. Photocopied typescript, leaves variously numbered. Letter to Dear friends, Undated [late October? 1986], from Claudio Crollini, Joyce Stevens, Jennifer Wilkinson. 2 pages photocopied typescript, with handwritten note at front on original. Attached : Introduction, 5 pages photocopied typescript. Necessity for new party. Outline of major points of discussion and decisions of national consultation on New Left Party, Sydney, 23 Nov 1986. 2 leaves photocopied typescript. Work in progress : socialist renewal in Australia. 8 leaves photocopied typescript, handwritten notes nd marks. A changing world, a new response : policy documents of the New Left Party. [Sydney : New Left Party, 1990]. 46 p. Australian workers need a wage rise NOW. 2 pages photocopied typescript. authorised by the New Left Party Trade Union Committee [1992]. Killorn, John. Award winning expert sacked for making energy efficiency pay. Also : ACF calls emergency meeting of green groups; untitled article by Tom McDonald. 1 leaf photocopied press clippings, no source no date, heading handwritten on original “Broadside”. New Left Party. Minutes of general meeting 5/9/92, and various leaflets, especially about the Federal election. 11 pages photocopied print and typescript. [Minutes of] October general meeting 3/10/92. 2 pages photocopied typescript. October News. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Politics in the pub : the Liberals - women’s working conditions at risk. 1 leaf printed. Meeting 25 Nov 1992. Summary of minutes of monthly meeting held 7/11/92. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Thompson, Shona. Men play football, women wash the dirty socks. 4 pages photocopied from Refractory Girl, [no. 43, Winter 1992].

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Minutes of New Left Party, 5 Dec 1992. 2 pages photocopied typescript. Some highlights of 1992. 1 side photocopied typescript. The basic aims of the New Left Party. Other side photocopied typescript. Are we a democratic, active, and effective party? 1 side photocopied typescript. Also date for next meeting. Webster, Gabrielle. Women in trade unions. Other side photocopied print, from Transport Worker. The New Left Party wishes members and supporters a relaxing and happy festive season. 1 side photocopied typescript. Nord, Norma. Trade union women’s committee. Other side photocopied print, from Transport Worker. McDonald, Keith. Interest rates at 1%. 1 leaf photocopied print, from Transport Worker.

New South Wales. Electricity Commission What does the future hold for power workers? Document produced by a number of Communist workers within the E.C. 5 pages duplicated typescript.

Nicaragua Nicaraguan womens tour 1987. 1 page duplicated typescript. From the Newsletter of the Union of Australian Women. Verso has extract from Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women.

Nuclear Power Power for whom? 4 pages duplicated typescript. Export of uranium to the Philippines.

Pornography Norwegian women unite to fight against pornography. 2 pages printed typescript, folded in three. Calling on other women to join in.

Price Control Are you worried about high prices? Aren’t we all! 2 pages printed. Authorised by W.A. Hudson, Australasian Meat Industry Employees’ Union, Queensland Branch, 21 Mar 1967. Meat price rises 1958 to 1966.

Box 6 Queensland Committee Circular letter, 10 Sep 1985, from H.R. Hamilton. 1 leaf printed typescript. Next meeting. Minutes of meeting on 18 Sep 1985. 1 leaf printed typescript. Circular letter, 2 Oct 1985, from H. R. Hamilton. 1 leaf printed typescript. General Meeting. Circular letter, 15 Nov 1985, from H.R. Hamilton. 1 leaf printed typescript. Meeting.

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The Queensland Committee needs your support! 1 leaf printed typescript. Handing out leaflets, 10 Dec 1985. The gerrymander… a dream come true for the Nationals…a nightmare for Queenslanders. 6 pages printed (2 pages folded three times). The Queensland Committee, Why? What? Who? How? Where? 6 pages printed (2 pages folded three times). Application form, authorised by H. Hamilton.

Queensland Conservation Council The alienation of Queensland’s parks : circular letter, signed Bob Phelps. 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

Queensland Council for Civil Liberties Media release, 14 Apr 1985. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Attached : Letter to The Hon. L. Bowen, Commonwealth Attorney-General, 12 Apr 1985, from Matthew Foley, 1 leaf photocopied typescript; List of Apparent breaches of international human rights law, 8 leaves photocopied typescript.

Queensland Essential Services Bill Essential Services Bill anti strike legislation must be stopped, 10 Oct 1979. 2 pages printed. Authorised by Queensland Building Trades Group. Protest meeting.

Queensland Education Dept Queensland Education Reform Committee : the Margaret Bailey case. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Expulsion not admitted to be for political activities.

Queensland History Harris, Joe. Yesterday’s workers supported separation. 4 leaves typescript, some corrections, unrelated handwritten note on back of last leaf.

Queensland Hospitals Save Queensland’s free hospitals from the Liberal-National government. 1 leaf printed. Authorised by Edmund D. Casey.

Queensland Industry Connors, Dennis. ‘Industry award system’. Courier-Mail, 16 Jan 1987; also Rous, Steve. ‘Qld industry in decline says bureau’. Courier-Mail, 26 Jan 1987. Press clippings photocopied on 1 leaf. Employment contracts : what’s in store for you. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Published by the Communist Party of Australia, 1986. Fact sheet. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Points against the Contract Legislation.

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Jones, Denis. An overview of the Queensland Trade Union Movements campaign against the Voluntary Employment Contracts. 2 leaves photocopied typescript, handwritten correction. Queensland anti-strike legislation. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Definitions of what makes a strike illegal. Queensland contract legislation. 4 leaves photocopied typescript. Comparison between contract and award provisions. Service Agreement. 2 pages photocopied typescript. Sample Contract, filled in, except for contractor’s name and the witnesses..

Queensland. Obscene Publications Act Delamothe, like Portnoy, has a complaint. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. People’s Bookshop sold copies of Portnoy’s complaint. Is sex obscene? 2 pages printed. Varying attitudes to various publications. Obscenity experts default. 2 pages printed. Pamphlet not obscene. Press release. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, signed, in ballpoint, C.E. Gifford, 12 Oct 1971. Licensing Branch Officers confiscate copies of Female sexuality and education from CPA offices.

Queensland State Elections Consider Women’s rights when you vote. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Election 29 Nov 1980. Authorised by the Women’s Campaign for Abortion. Three leaflets : Contracts; De-regulation; Sunshine state? 2 pages printed each, folded in three. Authorised by Ray Dempsey, Queensland Trades and Labor Council. Undated, 1980s.

Queensland State Service Union Attention Queensland Government employees. 2 pages printed. Public Service Management and Employment Bill, 1988, protest meeting.

Queensland Teachers Union [Untitled]. Begins : Queensland teachers are showing 100% solidarity in their strike . . . 2 leaves typescript. Emergency trainee teachers.

Queensland Trades and Labor Council Labour - May Day : the Trades & Labour Council of Queensland calls on all unions, workers and the people everywhere to march and join the celebration on May 4 [1981]. 1 leaf printed. Authorised by Fred Whitby, General Secretary. The Trades and Labor Council remembers the 1948 Rail Strike. 1 leaf printed. Meeting 26 Oct 1988.

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Queensland Womens Health Forum Proposed programme for the forum to be held 21 Nov 1987. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Attached : Appointment of special advisor to Minister for Community Services and Health, 3 leaves duplicated typescript; Some of the services offered by the Brisbane Women’s Health Centre, 2 pages printed typescript; Consumers’ Health Forum of Australia, Inc : Grants (offered), 1 leaf printed typescript.

Revolutionary Socialist Alliance Supplement to Discussion Bulletin, 1 Jun 1969. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Signed D. Freney. No premises. Yakir, P.I. Stalin : case for the prosecution. 2 pages duplicated print, reprinted from The Black Dwarf, 2 May 1969.

Scientology From Public relations office, Church of Scientology, England. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Anderson Enquiry.

SEARCH Foundation Memorandum of Association of Social Education and Research Concerning Humanity Foundation (SEARCH Foundation), company limited by guarantee under the Companies (New South Wales) code. 19 leaves photocopied print, from original 18 pages.

Self-Management Group Containment and revolution : the Self-Management Group replies to the Communist Party of Australia. 4 pages printed.

SEQEB strike Plastic bag, with SEQEB written on it. Circular letter, 21 Nov 1985, from Warren Bowden. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Criticism of Tribune coverage. Attached : Letter to The Editor, Tribune, 12 Nov 1985, from Warren Bowden, 3 leaves photocopied typescript, detailed criticism and rebuttal of articles. Letter to Ted (Bacon), 20 Dec 1985, from Jean Bowden. 2 pages handwritten. Less CPA influence in unions as compared with other left forces. McGregor, Adrian. ‘A year after the lights went out’, press clipping. Courier-Mail, 1 Feb 1986, Weekend 1. Power strike. 2 pages printed. Authorised by the Communist Party of Australia, 28th March 1980. SEQEB workers loss was more then just a tactical blunder. 6 pages photocopied typescript. Produced by the Trade Union Support Group, Warren Bowden, 17 Jun 1986.

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Sisters Publishing Sisters News 1. Spring 1979, name E. Bacon written on front; circular letter recruiting subscribers; press clipping, [Courier-Mail], ‘Springboard for women novelists’, interview with Margaret Smith about Sisters Publishing.

Socialism Deutscher, Isaac. ‘Socialist man’ : address to scholars’ conference at New York. 4 pages printed. An Outlook publication. Prospects for socialism : roundtable, chaired by Eric Aarons. 8 leaves photocopied, from Australian Left Review, Autumn 1984, pp. 20-27.

Socialist Feminist Forum Socialist Feminists face the Nineties : Socialist Feminist Forum, 29-30 May 1987. 2 pages duplicated typescript folded in three, marked in ballpoint. Registration form and proposed programme. Handwritten notes of meeting(s?). 3 leaves. Minutes of pre-Christmas meeting. 2 leaves typescript, also a carbon copy. Date of next meeting, 19 Jan 1987. Circular letter to Eva, undated [before 16 Feb 1987], from Judy Stevens. 1 leaf photocopied typescript, name Eva handwritten. Next meeting, what happened at last meeting. Socialist Feminist Forum. Newsletter no. 2. 22 Jan 1987. 2 pages photocopied typescript. Socialist Feminist Forum. Newsletter no. 4. Undated [before 2 Mar 1987]. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Notes from the meeting of Socialist Feminist Forum Planning Committee, 2 Mar 1987. 3 leaves photocopied typescript, handwritten note to Eva from Sue [Yarrow] on first page. Socialist Feminist Forum. Newsletter no. 5. Undated [before 16 Mar 1987]. 2 pages photocopied typescript. Socialist Feminist Forum. Newsletter no. 6. Undated [before 30 Mar 1987]. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Letter to Senator Margaret Reynolds, Senator Elaine Darling, Ms A.M. Warner, MLA, 30 Mar 1987, from Judy Stevens. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript each, handwritten note on the one addressed to Senator Reynolds. Identical letters soliciting the recipient’s interest. Socialist Feminist Forum. Newsletter no. 7. 6 Apr [1987]. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Minutes of meeting on 6 May 1987. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Circular letter, 16 Jul 1987, from Judith Stevens. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Various planned meetings. Socialist Feminists face the Nineties. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Programme of meeting. Attached notes of a talk on rape, 2 leaves handwritten. Post-Forum Newsletter no. 1. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, signed Eva Bacon & Judy Stevens. Post-forum meeting.

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Socialist Humanist Action Centre Proposals on Socialist Humanist Action Centre. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, handwritten note. No action happening.

Status of Women A Fair go for women. Australia, Office of the Status of Women. 2 pages printed, folded in five. Questionnaire on items of importance in the National Agenda for Women. Minutes of a meeting to further discuss the Report of the Inquiry into the Status of Women in Queensland, 26 Oct 1974. 3 pages duplicated typescript. New Right ‘threat’ to women. Press clipping from Courier-Mail, 16 Mar 1987. Publications of particular interest to women. 2 pages printed, folded in six. AGPS catalogue. Report and recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into the Status of Women in Queensland. Presented to parliament and ordered to be printed, A.!-1974. Brisbane : Government Printer, 1974. 34 p. Some paragraphs marked. Selected paragraphs from the Forward looking strategies. Office of the Status of Women, Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Sep 1985. 6 leaves photocopied typescript. A statement of equity for Queensland women. 1 leaf photocopied typescript, handwritten on original (2nd) Draft Only. Status of women, handwritten, 1 leaf. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 6 pages photocopied print on 3 leaves. Women, Health and Technology Committee. Healthy Technology? The future for women : A seminar examining the issues of women, health and technology in Australia today. 2 pages printed, folded in three. Programme and registration form for conference on 19 Nov 1988.

Trade Unions ‘Bad old days’. 1 leaf printed. Order form for record, written by residents of the Pilbara, issued by the Trades and Labor Council of W.A. Trade unions. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Trade unions and the new repression. 2 pages printed. Authorised by the Socialist Left of the ALP, May Day 1981. The Unionist exposed. 2 pages printed. Authorised by the Trade Unionists’ Defence Committee, 1968. Not a union publication. Youth week. 1 leaf printed. Authorised by the T.L.C. Planned for September 1968.

Uganda Uganda : dawn of a fragile hope. Press clipping from [Tribune], 8 Apr 1987, p.14. Reprinted from Guardian, New York. Verso has articles : Chile : Pope’s visit sparks protests, and Philippines armed forces continue repression.

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Unemployment Young? Vital? Looking for a job? 4 pages duplicated typescript. Authorised by the Communist Party of Australia, 25 Sep 1976. The unemployed - where they live : Commonwealth Employment Service statistics, June quarter 1986. Press clipping from [Courier-Mail?], 30 Aug 1986.

USSR Folder marked 22nd Congress, in handwriting. Contained copies of Moscow News and The Daily Review, translations from the Soviet Press. Blake, Jack. The USSR and the socialist cause. 8 pages printed, dated in ballpoint Feb ‘87.

UN International Women’s Year Circular letter, stamped 30 Sep 1974, from Elizabeth Reid. 2 leaves photocopied typescript, piece cut out of top of first leaf. Funds available for activities. Attached : Guidelines for grant applications, 4 leaves photocopied typescript. Circular letter, undated [before 4 Dec 1974], from John Haydon. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Next meeting of U.N.A.A. (Q) Committee for International Women’s Year. Attached : Minutes of the meeting of U.N.A.A. (Q) Committee, 6 Nov 1974, 11 pages duplicated typescript. Circular letter, 12 Nov 1975, from Kay Daniels. 1 leaf printed typescript with handwritten insertions. Compiling list of women’s organisations. Attached : Description of the National Research Programme, 1 leaf photocopied typescript. United National International Women’s Year - 1975. 2 pages printed typescript. Recruiting leaflet for the Union of Australian Women.

UN Decade of Women Hocking, Susan. Pluses, minuses in the Liberation Game, interviews with Quentin Bryce and Eva Bacon. Sunday Mail, 10 Mar 1985, pp. 37-38. Press clipping.

Vietnam Film Project Circular letter, undated [1979?], from Martha Ansara, Richard Mordaunt, Mavis Robertson. 2 leaves photocopied typescript. Soliciting funds.

Wage rates, 1976 ‘Australian Bank workers say “no” to plateau wage indexation’. Press advertisement. Courier-Mail, 28 Jul 1976. ‘Tax indexation, who benefits?’ Press clipping, no source [Link?] no date [after 1975]. Fight Fraser’s cuts! 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Authorised by the Queensland Women’s Trade Union Committee. ‘How much have we lost?’ Press clipping, no source [Link?] no date [1976?].

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Wages The wages structure. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript. Copied from British state monopoly capitalism and its impact on trade unions and wages, Marxism Today, Jan-Feb 1968.

Women and Labour Conferences Letter to Carmel [Shute], 27 May 1980, from Eva. 2 leaves handwritten carbon copy. Successful conference. Circular letter, 30 Jul 1982, from Irene Webley and Di Zetlin. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Next Women and Labour Conference in Brisbane. Attached : Notice of meeting to organise the Women and Labour Conference, Brisbane, 1984, 2 pages duplicated typescript, proposed agenda items. Circular letter, 7 Sep 1982, from the Interim Planning Committee. Draft agenda for 2nd Organizing Committee meeting. Attached : Draft Interim Policy Statement, 18 Sep 1982, signed Di Fingleton, Dinah Priestley, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; Policy options on the participation of men, signed Di Fingleton, Dinah Priestley, 1 leaf photocopied typescript; Minutes of meeting held on 21 Aug 1982, 2 pages photocopied typescript; Interim policy statement, discussion, 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Third Women and Labour Conference (1984, Brisbane), Notice of meeting, 23 Oct 1982. 2 pages duplicated typescript, name Eva Bacon written at top. Attached : Policy options on the participation of men, for discussion at the planning meeting, 18 Sep 1982, signed Di Fingleton, Dinah Priestley, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; Organizing Committee, Minutes of 3rd meeting, 2 pages duplicated typescript and 2 pages photocopied typescript; Women and Labour Conference : a reply to ‘Policy options on the participation of men’ by Di Fingleton and Di Priestley, 3 leaves photocopied typescript, handwritten amendment on original. Talk back. 4th Women and Labour Conference Bulletin. 1983 : no. 13, Jul, no. 14, Oct; 1984 : no. 16, Mar, no. 17, Jun. Multilingual. Seminar on anti-discrimination legislation, organised by the 1984 Women and Labour Organising Cttee. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Proposed programme, invitation to attend, registration form, not filled in. Fourth Women & Labour Conference 1984, Brisbane, 13, 14, 15 July. Printed folder, with name E. Bacon written at top. Contents : Programme, 7 pages duplicated typescript; Time-table - amendments, 8 pages duplicated typescript; Amended programme, 7 pages duplicated typescript; Greeting (multilingual), and administrative information, 12 pages duplicated typescript; Proposed workshop on equal pay, 2 pages duplicated typescript; Union of Australian Women paper, 4 pages duplicated typescript and print; Workshop on Women, peace research and peace education, 2 pages duplicated typescript; Girls on tape, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, protest at project cancellation half-way through.

Women in the 1980s: A Feminist Conference Minutes of first meeting of Steering Committee for Conference, 1 Jul 1982. 3 leaves photocopied typescript. Conference hosted by Queensland Institute of Technology Union. Proposed programme and registration form. 1 leaf printed, handwritten notes on back. Registration form not filled in. Programme. 5 pages printed, with handwritten notes.

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Women’s Health Forum Thomas, Kay L. Mental health objectives for women in the Australian community : working paper for the Women’s Health Forum, 21 Nov 1987. 15 pages photocopied typescript on 4 pages. Circular letter to participants, 23 Nov 1987, from Jud Abbs. 2 leaves photocopied typescript. Attached : ‘Acheron odd man out at women-only talks’, photocopied press clipping from Sunday Mail, 22 Nov 1987; Letter to the editor, Courier-Mail, undated (after 22 Nov), photocopied typescript, press report biased.

Women’s House Invitation. 4 pages printed. Services available at Women’s Centre. To all women on benefits. 2 pages duplicated typescript, folded. Services available.

Women’s Information Centre Collective (Townsville) Circular letter, 9 Nov 1978, from Leslie Wightman, Gay Ellis, for the collective. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Soliciting funds. Attached : Donation form, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, not filled in.

Women’s International Democratic Federation WIDF Council Meeting, Moscow, May 1978. Report on the conclusions of the three commissions. 3 pages duplicated typescript, name Eva written at top.

Women’s Liberation ‘Women’s place is everywhere’ : The Women’s Liberation Movement in Victoria. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. History, fragmentation.

Workers’ Control Conferences Circular letter, 17 Jan 1973, from Peter Lammiman. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Conference to be held at Easter. Souter, Gavin. Sacking the boss : from ‘working-in’ to taking over. 2 pages printed, reprinted from Sydney Morning Herald, 28 Jul 1973. Workers’ Control Movement. Circular letter, 30 Aug 1973, signed D. Armstrong & C. Gifford. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Agenda, signed George Britten for Steering Committee. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Steering Committee. Draft of Workers’ Control Conference leaflet. 4 pages duplicated typescript. What is Workers’ control? Resolution presented to the Workers’ Control Conference by the Black Caucus. 3 pages duplicated typescript, dated 18 Nov 1973. What is Workers’ control? Q’ld Workers’ Control Conference, Nov 17 & 18, 1973. 4 pages printed, including application form to attend conference.

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Women’s liberation and Queensland Workers’ Control Conference, 1973. 2 leaves duplicated typescript.

Workers’ Health Centre Wilson, M.V. Letter to the editor. Press clipping, The Suburban, 25 Feb 1981. Establishing a centre in Brisbane.

Working Women’s Charter Circular letter to Affiliated Unions, 16 Dec 1979, from F. Whitby, Secretary, Trades & Labor Council of Queensland. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Reviving the TLC Working Women’s Charter Committee. Attached : Compliments card of the Building Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia (Queensland Branch).

Y.C.W. Support YCW action on unemployment. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Handwritten date May Day 1981.

Zaretsky, Eli. Capitalism, the Family and Personal Life Review. 3 pages photocopied from Refractory Girl, June 1976, pp. 42-44. Review by Doreen Shanahan. 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

Papers on various subjects: Computers : a serious threat to women’s jobs. 4 leaves typescript, handwritten corrections. Feminism in the civil liberties struggle. 6 leaves typescript, handwritten corrections. Bowden, Jean. 16 January, 1987 : 1987 is the UN International Year of Shelter for the Homeless. 3 leaves photocopied typescript. Homelessness in Australia, especially Brisbane. Byrne, Ann. Women and the left. 12 pages photocopied typescript, name Jean Bowden written on original. Crow, Ruth and Crow, Maurie. The challenge of Children’s Year 1979 (the “Me generation”, consumerism and age-ism). 14 pages photocopied typescript, handwritten correction and underlining on original. Jackson, Sue. The Accord. 7 pages photocopied typescript, name Jean Bowden written on original. Jennings, Barbara. Unemployment, underemployment and unpaid work etc : strategies for below the poverty line. 5 pages photocopied typescript, name Jean Bowden written on original, marks on original. Kokkinos, Anna. The state we’re in : the Left and labour government. 10 pages photocopied typescript, name Jean Bowden written on original. Power, Margaret. Women and economic crises : the Great Depression and the present crisis. 9 pages photocopied typescript, 1978, E. Bacon and 70c written at top. ______

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Pringle, Rosemary, and Game, Ann. ‘Human relationships of structural change?’ 5 pages photocopied typescript, numbered 15-19, 1978 and 50c written at top. Royal Commission on Human Relationships. Rubenstein, Linda. Women, work and technological change. 7 pages photocopied typescript, numbered Work 66-72, 60c written at top. Shanahan, Doreen. The deskilling process and work degradation. 4 leaves photocopied typescript, 1 leaf photocopied press clippings. Sherry, Ann. Social movements, trade unions and labour governments : how have they related? The Women’s movement and the Left. 11 pages photocopied typescript, name Jean Bowden written on original. Thompson, Janna. Housework and technological change. 10 pages photocopied typescript, numbered Work 12-21, 70c written at top.

Press cuttings. Manilla folder marked Ass’td clippings: Child care Dowse, Sara. ‘Child care : a serious neglect’ letter to the editor. National Times, 9-15 May 1982. Civil liberties Hinch, Derryn. ‘Snooping for profit is big American business’. The Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, 23 Jul 1968, 4. Note at top : For Tribune. Contraception Will, George F. ‘Teen-agers and birth control’. Newsweek, 28 Feb 1983, 6. Family ‘Clamp on kids cult under way in States’. [Courier-Mail, dated 1979? in ballpoint]. Anti-child sentiment. Health Clark, Matt, and Gosnell, Mariana. ‘Managing the menopause’. Newsweek, 9 Feb 1981, 50- 51. Michelton Special School ‘Michelton Special School’. Suburban Express, North West edition, 18 May 1983, 1. Peace Carman, Gerry. ‘Bomb with a brain’. Age, 24 Feb 1982. Privatisation Trundle, Peter. ‘Does TELECOM have a future?’. Morley, Peter. ‘Liberal concern on privacy’. Courier-Mail, dated 18 Jul 1980 in ballpoint. Sex discrimination Hughey, Judith. ‘Sexism in the classroom’. [Courier-Mail, 198?]. O’Shea, Kerry. ‘Women hit first as jobs are lost’. National Times, 24-30 Sep 1980. UN International Women’s Year Conference ‘Women’s conference did have good points’. Warwick Daily News, 8 Oct 1975, 4. Address by Eva Bacon to the Warwick Forum Club. Welfare Preston, Noel. ‘The poor are worse off now’. Letter to the editor. [No source, 198?] Women ‘Positive image aim for women’s radio’. No source, no date. Radio 4BW. Tingley, C.S. ‘Because we’re women’ : letter to the editor. Advertiser [Adelaide], 1978. Socialist Party of Australia. ‘Draft program for women’. The Socialist, 9 Aug 1978, 1-3. Third National Congress. ‘Women in call for support’. Courier-Mail, late Dec 1980. Simper, Errol. ‘ALP women move left : major conference clash looms with senior party men’. Australian, 27 Jan 1981.

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Work ‘Women and technology’. The Modern Unionist, Oct/Dec 1980, 61, 63, 65,67,69,71,73,75. At least one page seems to be missing at the beginning. Jacka, Marion. ‘The exploitation of working women’. National Times, 30 May-5 Jun 1982. Review of Kaye Hargreaves. Women at work.

Box 7 Alternate News Service. 1974 : no. 29, 27 Sep. Anti Apartheid News. Newsletter of the Australian Anti-Apartheid Movement (Brisbane). 1987 : no. 1. Behind the News. Preview issue, 1968 : May, Jun, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov. Broadside Weekly. 1992 : no. 28, Dec. Bulletin. New Left Party. 1987 : v.1 no. 1, Aug. Later National Bulletin. Bulletin of Marxist Studies. 1975 : v.1 no. 1, Aug, no. 2, Oct. Changing World : independent Journal of Marxist Debate & Analysis. 1990 : May. Notes on front cover crossed through, underlining inside. The Comet. 1990 : no. 7, Jul. Conscience. 1966 : no. 9, Jun; 1971 : no. 63, [May?]. CPA Industrial Newsletter. 1971 : Apr. CPA Newsletter. 1967 : no. 1; 1968 : no. 1, no. 2; 1969 : Jul, Aug. The Daily review. Translations from the Soviet Press. 1961 : Nov 4, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 30; 1962 : Jan 2. Decade Up Date. 1984 : no. 2 regional supplement, Sep. Discussion bulletin. Revolutionary Socialist Alliance. 1969 : no. 14, 24 Jul, no. 15, 6 Oct. Hot Metal : Bulletin of the Metal Branch, Communist Party of Australia. 1980 : May. In English, Serbo-Croat, Arabic, Italian, Greek. Keep Left. 1981 : v.7 no. 2, May. Ladies Line. 1968 : v.2 no. 17, 24 Aug. Link : Communist Party Women’s Journal. 1973 : no. 1, Spring. Communist Party of Great Britain. Local Scene. 1969 : Dec. Metal Worker. 1968 : Apr; 1980 : Jun. Mini Tribune. Jubilee year - 50 years; 1972 : May, Nov-Dec; 1973 : Jan-Feb, Aug-Sep, Oct-Nov. Moscow News. 1961 : Oct 28, Nov 25. MRA Information Service. Moral Re-Armament. 1963 : v.11 nos. 16 Feb, 21 Apr, 25 Jun, 26 Jul, v.12 nos. 1, 2 Jul, 3, 4 Aug, 5, 6 Sep, 7, 8 Oct, 9, 10 Nov, 13 Dec; 1964 : v.11 nos. 14, 15 Jan, 16, 17 Feb, 20 Apr. National Bulletin. New Left Party. 1988 : v.2, no. 2, Jul, no. 3, Oct. National Bulletin. Women’s Electoral Lobby Newsletter. 1987 : v.10 no. 2, Feb.

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New World News. Moral Re-Armament. 1963 : no. 30, Jul-Sep. Newsletter. Australia-U.S.S.R. Society (Brisbane Branch). 1968 : Jun(?). Newsletter. Australian Congress International Cooperation & Disarmament. 1964 : no. 4, Nov. Newsletter. Bayside People for Nuclear Disarmament. 1990 : 14 Aug. Newsletter. Campaign against Nuclear Power. 1977 : Mar with covering letter. Newsletter. Communist Women’s Collective, Qld. 1972 : Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov; 1973 : May, Jun; 1975 : Aug, Nov; 1976 : Apr; 1979 : Mar; 1980 : May; 1981 : Oct; 1982 : Aug. Newsletter. Draft Resisters’ Union. 1971 : 13 Jul. Newsletter. North-West Branch, Communist Party of Australia. 1973 : Oct. Newsletter. Queensland Peace Committee. 1967 : nos. 3, 4, 5; 1968 : nos. 1, 2, 3, 6, 9; 1969 : no. 3 Mar-Apr; [1971?] : [Sep?], Oct, Dec; 1973 : Feb, Mar with supplement; 1974 : Aug. Newsletter. Social Welfare Committee. 1971 : Sep. Newsletter. Union of Australian Women. 1989 : Sep, pp. 5-8 only. Newsletter of the Brisbane Labour History Association. 1991 : Sep-Oct. Nuclear Countdown : a Journal of Pacific Resistance. 1978 : no. 1, Nov-Jan 1979. Pacific News Bulletin. 1990 : v.5 no. 8, Aug; 1991 : v.6 no. 3, Mar. Peace Action in Australia. 1965 : v.7 no. 2, May. Peace and Disarmament News. 1989 : Jul, Sep special edition; 1991 : Jun, Oct. Peace Courier. 1989 : May, Jun; 1990 : Nov/Dec. Peace Dossier. 1984 : no. 11, Nov. Peacelight. 1965 : Sep, Oct, Dec-Jan 1966; 1966 : Mar, with supplement. Pritikin in Brisbane. 1990 : Mar. The Pritikin Lifestyle. 1990 : no. 79, Mar. Note attached to front. Puff. 1970 : v.1 no. 1, 3 Aug. The Queensland Liberal. 1964 : v.6 no. 56, Apr. Seamen’s Journal. Peace supplement, Apr 1968. Ship and Shore. 1982 : v.4 no. 13, 29 Apr. Socialist Alternatives. 1986 : v.1 no. 3, Dec/1987 Jan. Socialist Woman. 1973 : v.1 no. 2, Apr Soviet News Bulletin. 1968 : no. 21/154, no. 23/156, no. 25/158, no. 27/159, no. 28/160, no. 29/161, no. 30/163, no. 31/164, no. 32/165, no. 33/166, no. 34/167, no. 35/168, no. 36/169, no. 36/169 [number repeated in error], no. 37/170, no. 38/171, no. 39/172; 1969 : no. 1/173, no. 2/174, no. 12/183, no. 13/184; 1975 : no. 5/335, no. 29/359, no. 30/360. Stand up. 1970 : v.1 no. 1, 22 Jun. Survival & Society. 1973 : nos. 1, 2, 3. Turana. Salisbury District Peace Group. no. 2. U.N.A. (Q.) News Letter. 1978 : v.15 no. 4, Jun. ______

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Underground Tribune. 1960 (?) Women at work = Le donne al lavoro = Zene na poshu = Gunaikes ste douleia = Mujeres que trabajan. 1979 : no. 15, Apr/May. In English, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Arabic, Turkish, Serbo- Croatian Women News. 1987 : no. 12, Mar. Women’s Liberation. 1974 : Feb (titled Brisbane Women’s Liberation), Apr, May/Jun. Workers’ Voice. Bulletin of the Industrial Committee of the Communist Party. 1979 : v.1 no. 2, Nov. Y-Not? 1971 : v.2 [Jun?]

Box 8 Addresses The bookshop’s beginnings. 8 leaves photocopied typescript, with handwritten notes and corrections. Untitled. [Democracy]. 7 leaves handwritten, last on verso of circular letter, 1 Jun 1977, from Women’s Collective, CPA Queensland Branch. Hamilton, H. R. Oration delivered at the memorial service to the late Ronald Henry Brown. 4 leaves duplicated typescript, names Eva & Ted written at top. Attached : Poem and telegram from Brown’s sons, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, with handwritten notes; Letter to Eva and Ted, 16 Aug [1980], from Clarice, 1 leaf handwritten, thanks for sympathy and help. Untitled. [Memorial for Mabel Hanson]. 3 leaves typescript, handwritten correction. Dated 2 Feb 1989. Untitled. [Funeral of Margaret Hely]. 5 leaves handwritten. Untitled. [Memorial for Gloria Laird]. 8 leaves handwritten, with spaces for further information. Draft letter and list of recipients, undated, from Ted. 2 leaves handwritten. Memorial for Gloria. Gloria Reid - Gloria Phelan - Gloria Laird : notes [by Kath Thomas?]. 2 leaves typescript. Memories of Gloria. Untitled. [Memorial for Albert Robinson]. 4 leaves typescript, with whiteout and handwritten corrections.

Answers to a questionnaire Answers numbered Q 1 to Q 10. At least two differing answers apparently to the same questions, several handwritten leaves for each answer. The questions seem to refer to Donald Horne’s Death of the Lucky Country.

Articles and papers, by Ted Bacon and others: History. 2 copies, typescript, copy 1 18 pages, double-spaced, with corrections in ink; copy 2 39 pages, single-spaced. Treatment of convicts and labourers, especially in Moreton Bay and Queensland.

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Japan. 6 leaves typescript, 1 leaf handwritten, many corrections. Attached : Envelope marked Japan at front. Outline Qld position - economic & political as part of Federation. 18 leaves handwritten in pencil. Untitled. 4 leaves handwritten. Sources of revolution. Untitled. 31 leaves typescript, with handwritten corrections. Present conditions, future possibilities. Untitled. 45 leaves typescript, heavily reworked and corrected, one leaf handwritten as insert, various numbering. Split between CPA and CPA (M-L). This article is not incomplete, even though the first page is numbered 4. Letter to the editor, Tribune, 9 Nov 1970, from Ted. 11 leaves carbon copy typescript, with handwritten corrections. Article by Denis Freney. Attached : Letter to Ted, 4 Nov 1970, from Alec, for Tribune, 1 leaf typescript, with handwritten corrections, asking Ted to write about Freney’s article. What was the nature of transportation to NSW? 1,000 word essay (tutor Denis Murphy) due 16 Apr 1971. 15 leaves handwritten, with corrections. Tribune review. 9 leaves handwritten. Review of Donald Horne. Death of the Lucky Country. Untitled. 2 leaves handwritten. Review of Antonioni TV film ‘China’, shown 15 Jul 1974. Crawford, Jim. Untitled. 5 leaves carbon copy typescript, with handwritten corrections and notes. Queensland labour history. Attached : Letter to Ted, undated, from Jim Crawford, 1 leaf typescript, Ted welcome to edit article. Forty, E. H. Gun fodder. 55 leaves handwritten. World Wars I and II as seen from the ranks. Attached : Letter to C.P.A., 16 Feb 1961, 1 leaf handwritten, article exposes war in all its hideousness. Podgornik, Lotte. [Untitled]. Review, translated by Eva Bacon, of a collection of letters from Karl Marx’ daughters. 3 leaves typescript. Yarrow, Susan. ‘Everything for the People’s War’ - a study of the organization of the Communist Party of Australia during the years 1939-45. Essay (tutor Di Zetlin). 27 pages photocopied handwritten.

Australia -U.S.S.R. Society [Untitled]. 37 leaves handwritten. Problems in the Society because of invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968.

Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Aborigines and the Commonwealth Games. Adelaide : Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, 1982. vol. 1 Blackisms. 1 leaf photocopied print. Aphorisms. [Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action]. The main objectives of our organisation. 5 leaves printed typescript. Letter to Ted and Eva, 12 Sep 1980, from Johnno. 1 leaf handwritten. Sending photocopy of pamphlet. Attached : Envelope; Photocopied pamphlet Let the sun shine! = Derum gair kaurge. =

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Goiga buia nagi mura lagia. : A plan for the Torres Islands people. Yule Entrance, Torres Islands : C. M. Smith, [n.d.]. 28 p. National Messagestick. 1985 : v. 1 no. 2, Apr

(Auto)biographical Autobiog. 4 leaves handwritten on versos of order forms for People’s Bookshop. Education, marriage, journalism. Untitled. 8 leaves handwritten. Biographical reasons for Party membership and work. Notes asking for expansion in another hand. Letter to Ted, 30 Apr [1976?], from Laurie [Aarons]. 1 leaf typescript. Coming to Brisbane to do interviews with Party members, suggested topics fro interviews with Ted and Eva. [Interview with L.A.]. 135 leaves typescript, two different typewriters, numerous corrections and alterations in ink. Party work during and after the war. Typed from tape recording. Letter to Ted, undated, from Laurie [Aarons]. 1 leaf typescript, with handwritten postscript. Sending typed interview, asking for corrections and additions. Interview with Ted Bacon, Brisbane, 13/10/92. 23 leaves typescript, some queries underlined in red, name Ted written at top. Interviewer not named; memories of joining the Party, work during World War II with servicemen. Interview with Eva Bacon in Brisbane, 13/10/92. 12 leaves typescript, some handwritten corrections, name Eva written at top. Interviewer not named, memories of arrival as a refugee, work during World War II with servicemen on leave. [Interviewer in both cases is probably Sue Yarrow, see her paper ‘Everything for the People’s War’ in Articles and essays above.]

Bacon, E. and E A: Correspondence [Letter to Eva, undated, probably early 1950s, no signature]. 22 leaves duplicated typescript, with handwritten elucidations. From Austria, contradictions and revisions in various Communist Parties. Postcard to Eva, 25 Sep 1961, from Ted. Handwritten. On his way to China. Letter to Eva and Barbara, 6 Oct 1961, from Ted. 1 leaf handwritten. In Peking on his way to the USSR. Letter to Eva and Barbara, 15 Oct 1961, from Ted. 2 pages handwritten. Stay in Belorussia. Letter to Eva and Barbara, 9 Nov 1961, from Ted. 2 pages handwritten. Stay in Moscow, further travels. Attached : Photographs and postcards. Letter to Ted, 5 May 1965, from N. R. Falcon (?) 1 leaf handwritten. Returning a paper by Ted. Attached : Untitled talk, 21 leaves typescript, with corrections in writing, written at top Lecture to Uni history club 13/4/65, Marxist interpretation of history. [Another copy of this talk is filed under Lectures]. Letter to Eva, 23 Jun 1975, from Ted. News. Letter to Eva & Ted, 23 Sep 1980, from Rhyl and Johnno. 2 leaves handwritten. Meeting old friends. Letter to Ted, 23 Mar 1982, from Les Gregor. 1 leaves handwritten. Directions for finding Gregor’s house. ______

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Letter to Eva, 7 Feb 1985, from Nell Johns. 1 leaf typescript. Wrong name on letter from Eva. Letter to Eva & Ted, 7 Mar 1990, from Mick O’Regan. 1 leaf handwritten. Request for releases in case ABC wants to broadcast taped interviews; noted as answered 18 Jun 1991. Letter to Ted, 1 Feb 1992, from Victoria Carolan, Penguin Bookshop, York. 1 leaf handwritten. Book not available. Letter to Eva, 7 Apr 1992, from Nancy Hart, Glennie Old Girls’ Association. 1 leaf handwritten. Addresses. Attached : Addresses, 2 leaves handwritten by Eva. Letter to Eva and Ted, 13 May 1992, from Ursula. 2 leaves typescript, with handwritten additions and corrections. Contemporary conditions in the Soviet Union. Letter to Ted, 21 Apr 1992, from Jean Aston. 3 pages handwritten. News, catching up. Letter to Ted, 20 Jun 1992, from Jean Aston. 1 leaf handwritten. News. Letter to Ted, 10 Jul 1992, from Jean Aston. 10 pages handwritten. News, catching up. Postcard to Eva, 20 Aug 1992, from Jean Aston. Handwritten. Friendship. Letter to Ted, 20 Aug 1992, from Jean Aston. 2 pages handwritten. News about a friend. Postcard to Ted & Eva, postmarked 25 Sep 1992, from Jean Aston. Handwritten. News. Letter to Ted, 29 Oct 1992, from Jean Aston. 8 pages handwritten. News. Letter to Ted & Eva, 2 Dec 1992, from Jean Aston. 1 leaf handwritten. News. Card to Ted & Eva, undated, from Jean Aston. Handwritten. Happy Christmas. Letter to Ted, undated, from Jean Aston. 7 leaves handwritten. News. Letter to Ted, 20 Jan 1993, from Jean Aston. 6 pages handwritten. News. Postcard to Ted & Eva, 21 May 1993, from Jean Aston. Handwritten. News. Letter to Ted, 5 Jun 1993, from Jean Aston. 7 leaves handwritten. News. Postcard to Eva and Ted, 30 Jul 1993, from Jean Aston. Handwritten. News. Letter to Ted, 16 Aug 1993, from Jean Aston. 6 pages handwritten. News. Letter to Ted, Nov 1993, from Jean Aston. 1 card handwritten both sides. Winter in Yorkshire. Attached : Envelope; York Minster, press clipping, no source, no date. Letter to Ted, 4 Jan 1994, from Jean Aston. 7 pages handwritten. News. Letter to Eva, 8 Feb 1994, from Jean Aston. 1 card. Sending present. Attached : envelope. Letter to Ted, 7 Apr 1994, from Jean Aston. 2 pages handwritten. News. Postcard to Ted & Eva, postmarked 1 Jul 1994, from Jean Aston. Handwritten. News.

Box 9 Bacon, E.A. An Outline of the Post-War History of the Communist Party of Australia Letter to Ted, 1 Oct 1965, from R. Dixon. 3 leaves typescript, with handwritten additions and corrections. Suggested alterations to text. Another copy 3 leaves photocopied typescript. Galley proofs. 40 galleys, a few handwritten marks, not corrected.

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Bacon, E A: Personal Letters and notes about Ted’s employment and war service; including appeals against regrading and dismissal. Letters and notes about Ted’s pension entitlements : war service, disability, etc. Letter to Ted, 5 Oct 1987, from Katherine Ettershank, Caxton Street Legal Service Incorporated. 1 leaf typescript. Advice on Ted’s will. Attached : Photocopy from Hutley. Australian wills precedents, citing Bacon v Pianta; Envelope.

Brown, Clarice Letter to Eva and Ted, 5 Mar [1992?]. 2 pages handwritten. Sending an earlier autobiography. Untitled. 4 pages typescript, dated 24 Jul 1980, note Second article and page numbering handwritten. Experiences in the Party. Clarice Brown, July 1991. 8 leaves typescript, handwritten corrections. Reminiscences of Party life.

Business correspondence Qld wills at 7.9.1979. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, handwritten corrections. List of wills with bequests to the Communist Party. Correspondence with the Australian Taxation Office, 1975, about rents received through Goldsworthy’s Real Estate. M.N. Julius. Estate M.N. Julius decd. Statement of assets and liabilities. 1 leaf typescript. F. Marriott. Receipt for payment for press notice. Daisy Marchisotti. Copy of will, correspondence with the Public Trustee, correspondence relating to the sale of her house. Peter Pianta. Interrogatories in court case disputing will, correspondence and receipts for investments. Franz Reiland. Letter from the Public Curator, no bequest. Robert Seawright. Correspondence with solicitor about repairs needed to Seawright’s house and car. C.W. Thurlby. Correspondence with solicitor, estate finalised. J. van Schreven. Letter from solicitor, probate in Victoria.

Campbell, Clarence H. Letter to Ted, 16 Mar 1993, from Drew Cottle. 1 leaf handwritten. Asking for Ted’s memories of Campbell. Note that Ted answered 21 Mar. Letter to Ted, undated, from Drew Cottle. 1 leaf handwritten. Thanks, will follow up pointers. Note that Ted answered 30 Mar 1993. Letter to Ted, 6 Apr 1993, from Drew Cottle. 1 leaf handwritten. Asking Ted to read manuscript when ready.

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Commonwealth of Independent States Coates, Ken. ‘The West looks East for signs of a new coup’. Photocopy from Morning Star (London), 15 Jan 1992. Coates, Ken. ‘The full arms cost of no democracy’ : letter to the editor. Photocopy from Morning Star (London), 4 Feb 1992. Circular letter, Jan 1992, from Ken Coates. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Support for Socialist Party of Labour in Russia. Letter to Roy Medvedev and others, undated, from Ken Coates and many others. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Offering support for a new Russian party of the Left. Medvedev, Roy. ‘Politics after the coup : interview’. Photocopy from New Left Review, no. 189, 91- 109. Interviewers Jonathan Steele and Renfrew Clarke.

Communist Party of Australia: Bacon, E. A. Visit to Indonesia Envelope marked Ted Bacon Qld, crossed through, and Indonesia. Programme [of visit], 26 May to 26 June. 1 leaf typescript, with some corrections. Speech of E. A. Bacon, Djakarta May 26. 6 leaves typescript, with corrections. Greetings from the CPA to the PKI on its 43rd birthday. Letter to the visitors, 23 June 1963, from Ismail Bakri. 1 leaf typescript. Death of Bintang Suradi cuts short visit. Letter to Comrade Bakri, 23 June 1963, from K. Kikunami, delegate of Communist Party of Japan and E. A. Bacon, delegate of CPA. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Condolences. Addresses at funeral of Bintang Suradi, from Comrade Sudisman, and D. N. Aidit; biographical notes on Comrade Bintang. 6 leaves carbon copy typescript. Letter of condolence of fraternal delegates of the CP of Australia and CP of Japan. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, signed K. Kikumani, Ted Bacon. Untitled. Report by Ted Bacon on his visit to Indonesia. 12 leaves typescript, with many handwritten corrections and additions. Probably a draft of his final report to the Central Secretariat of the CPA.

Charges against members [Henderson, Jim]. Untitled. Begins : Jim Henderson’s defence of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. 7 leaves handwritten, heavily corrected.

Congresses 21st Congress  Circular letter to Political Committee Members, 19 Apr 1967, from C.C. Secretariat. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Proposed agenda for 21st Congress.  Circular letter to Congress Delegates and Party Organizations, 12 May 1967, from Q[ueensland] S[tate] E[xecutive]. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Limitations on visitor numbers and funds.

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 Circular letter to Delegates, 30 May 1967, from L. Aarons. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Sending proposed format for 21st Congress. Attached : List of members of Congress Committees, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; Proposals on ballots, 1 leaf typescript; Information for people attending, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; Standing orders, 1 leaf duplicated typescript; Proposals for order of business, 4 leaves duplicated typescript; Draft of Rules and constitution of the Communist Party of Australia, 8 pages duplicated typescript, and Amendments to the Draft, 17 pages duplicated typescript.  Speech to (21st) CPA Congress, June 1967. 8 leaves typescript, with many handwritten additions. Party programme for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.  Action fund. 2 pages printed, folded in 5. Appeal for funds for the Party and Party publications. 25th Congress: Letter to Ted, undated postmarked 9 Jul 1979, from Joe. 2 leaves handwritten. Migrant Program. Attached : Envelope. 29th Congress: Socialist Renewal : where to now? CPA initial draft document on Socialist Renewal adopted by the National Committee on 7-8 Feb 1987 for Party discussion. 12 pages duplicated typescript, heavily annotated in handwriting by both Eva and Ted.

History Untitled. 12 leaves handwritten, on verso of leaflets Women & the referendum, on prices and incomes control, 8 Dec 1973. History of the CPA to 1950. Undated, post-1973. Letter to Ted, 8 Sep 1975, from Brian Dunnett. 1 leaf typescript. 55th anniversary of the Party. Attached : 55 years and beyond as the Communist Party sees itself, draft only, 2 pages duplicated typescript, proposed weekend celebration in Sydney; Press clipping, no source no date, a Queensland joke. Letter to Betty, 3 Mar 1976, from Nadine. 2 leaves handwritten. suggests Betty write biography of Dave Morris. Note : Received and ansd 22/3/76. Letter to Ted, 25 Mar 1976, from Nadine. 2 leaves handwritten. Material for Dave Morris biography. Letter to Ted, postmarked 5 Apr 1976, from Bernice Morris. 3 leaves handwritten. Research for biography of Dave Morris. Letter to Ted, 25 Nov 1979, from Bill Gollan. 4 leaves handwritten. Ted too frail to attempt to write history of Party, should record reminiscences and let younger person do the work. Letter to Ted, 20 Mar 1980, from Toby Miller. 1 leaf typescript. Research for B.A. (Hons) thesis on the Communist Party Dissolution Bill. Attached : Questionnaire on aspects of the Bill and reactions to it, 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Letter to Ted, 13 Jul 1992, from Drew Cottle. 1 leaf handwritten. Research on Communists in the Australian Army in World War II. Note answered by Ted 20 Jul 1992. Letter to Ted and Eva, 16 Aug 1992, from Beverley Symons. 1 leaf typescript, note that Ted answered on 3 Sep 1982 [sic]. Research for B.A. (Hons) thesis on political activities of Communists in the armed forces in World War II. Attached : Outline of thesis with proposed chapter headings, 2 leaves photocopied typescript. Letter to Ted, 14 Dec 1992, from Drew Cottle. 1 leaf handwritten. Thanks for interview, asking for further information, transcript and copy of tape to come. ______

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Circular letter, 15 Feb 1993, from Brian Aarons. 1 leaf printed typescript, with handwritten note at bottom, payment sent. AGM of CPA held, form for dues at bottom of letter (not found). Attached : Report by Andrew Wells on CPA history project, 2 pages printed.

International Relations International Notes from a report by L[aurie] A[arons](?) 3 leaves handwritten. Delegation to Moscow Conference after invasion of Czechoslovakia. Bulgaria Note to Eva, undated, from J[enny] P[rohaska]. 1 leaf handwritten, on verso of a leaf duplicated typescript, preparations for women’s delegation to Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia Notes on reactions nationally. 3 leaves typescript, dated 23 Sep 1968, signed Peg Penberthy. Attitudes of various CPA Branches to invasion of Czechoslovakia. National Committee Notes on national campaign for wage justice. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Undated, probably early 1970s.

Party Unity Untitled. 11 leaves handwritten, with corrections. Minority actively opposing Party decisions. Untitled. 58 leaves typescript, with handwritten additions and corrections. Some members opposing Party decisions. Attached : Envelope marked Return to EAB. Untitled. [Notes of a meeting]. 10 leaves handwritten. Problems of Party discipline, other problems in Party work. Untitled. [Notes of a meeting]. 4 leaves handwritten. Discussion on expulsions. Untitled. [Report to a Party meeting]. 20 leaves handwritten. Funeral of Party member as example of problems - members of ALP and TUC helpful and co-operative, some CPA members the opposite. Notes of (National?) committee meeting. 2 leaves handwritten. Expulsions, Party discipline, dissolving and reforming Party.

Policy on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Circular letter, 23 Aug 1963, from H. Stein. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Circulating first draft of a Communist Party statement on Aborigines. Attached : Communist policy on the Aborigines of Australia : draft, 9 leaves duplicated typescript, some underlining. Communist policy on the Aborigines of Australia : second draft. Undated. 11 leaves duplicated typescript, initials EAB at top. Circular letter to Districts, Sections, Branches and sub-committees, 29 Mar 1960, from Q. S. E. [Queensland State Executive]. 2 pages duplicated typescript, handwritten note at top Q. letter

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(based on work since 1954 article attached). Attached : A New stage in the development of the Aboriginal people, 4 pages duplicated typescript, reprinted from Communist Review, Sep 1954. Suggested addition to programme : Aboriginal Languages. 1 leaf handwritten, with initials P. B. at top, note on back gives name Pam Beazley. Brill, Tess. Untitled. Begins : With reference to Dr Christopher’s [sic] query ‘are the Australian Aborigines a “national minority”?’. 3 leaves typescript, with handwritten marks and corrections. History of Aboriginal subjugation. Draft resolution on the title of the programme from Barry E. Christophers, Vic. 2 leaves typescript, with pencil note. The Aborigine Draft Policy, by Flarvia (Vic). 1 leaf typescript, with handwritten additions and corrections, note at top Copied & used. General comments on Tribune articles rather than the draft. Comments on draft for Policy on Aborigines, from Len [Fox]. 4 leaves typescript, with handwritten corrections. Three of the leaves have been cut. Untitled, signed Ron Hancock. 2 leaves typed, numbered in pen ‘B’ and ‘C’, note in another writing at bottom of leaf ‘C’. J. Lowe. Untitled, undated. 5 leaves handwritten. Comments on draft. Attached : 2 leaves from Communist policy on the Aborigines of Australia, duplicated typescript with handwritten marks. Untitled. signed Alec R. 1 leaf handwritten, with crossing out, name on back Ted Bacon. Two comments. Comments re Policy statement on Aborigines. 1 leaf typescript. Comments from G. F. S[pall?], L. Docherty, R. L. P. From Fred Thompson. 1 leaf typescript. Comments, some discussed with Joe McGuinness. Untitled. Begins : On page 9 the draft states . . . 2 leaves handwritten, signed N. Y. Aborigines as cheap labour. Untitled. Begins : It is true that Aboriginal culture . . . 1 leaf typescript, signed Ted Zeffertt, W. A. Comments on draft of Communist policy on the Aborigines of Australia. 2 leaves typescript, initials at top S. A. [South Australia]. Relations between Aborigines and other workers and trade unions. Suggested additions. 1 leaf handwritten. To clear the air concerning national minority - suggest the following introductory remarks at the beginning of p3 of draft - . 2 leaves typescript, a few handwritten corrections, undated, unsigned. Some other comments. Untitled. Begins : Support for various campaigns for a Fair Deal for our Aborigines is growing rapidly. 6 leaves handwritten. Ownership of Aboriginal Reserves. Untitled. Two leaves handwritten in different hands. One comment on each. Letter to CC Secretariat, undated, from SASE. 1 leaf typescript. Enclosing comments, Australian policy towards Aborigines attracting attention abroad. Attached : 3 leaves handwritten of comments, unsigned. Letter to Harry Stein, undated, from Andy Wallace. 2 leaves handwritten. Comments from Frank Russel, Pauline Pickford and Wallace. Attached : 1 leaf handwritten, southern unions not as supportive as northern ones.

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Letter to L. Aarons, undated, from M. E. Knott and Bill Knott. 3 leaves typescript. Suggestions for Aboriginal policies. Letter to Ted, undated, from Joyce. 2 leaves typescript, with handwritten corrections. Current work with Aborigines, enclosing comments. Attached : Comments from J. McG. and J. T., 1 leaf typescript; More comments, 1 leaf handwritten. Letter to Ted, 26 Aug [1963], from Jim Crawford. 1 leaf typescript, with handwritten corrections. Comments on three issues. Letter to Ted, 10 Sep 1963, from D[aisy] M[archisotti]. 2 leaves typescript, with handwritten notes and corrections. Comments from discussion with other comrades. Letter to Ted, 14 Sep 1963, from Stewart G. 2 leaves handwritten. Comments on the draft, news. Letter to Harry, 17 Sep 1963, from Jim Moss. 1 leaf typescript. Comments on draft, enclosing other comments. Attached : Proposed amendments to Policy Statement on Aborigines, 3 leaves typescript, with handwritten additions and corrections. Untitled, 17 Sep 1963, indecipherable signature. 1 leaf handwritten. Aborigines not ‘national’ but ‘ethnic’ minority; what form special assistance could take. Letter to Ted, 8 Oct 1963, from Eunice Gilmore. 1 leaf handwritten. Enclosing comments. Letter to E. Aarons, 25 Nov 1963, from D. Naylor(?), Private Secretary. 1 leaf typescript. The Minister, A. G. Enticknap, will be shown the draft when he returns. Letter to E. Aarons, 26 Nov 1963, from J. Scully(?) for G. H. Neilly, MLA. 1 leaf typescript. Neilly will get draft when he returns. Letter to Ted, 20 Dec 1963, from Operative Painters and Decorators’ Union of Australia, Queensland Branch, signed E. J. Hanson. 1 leaf typescript. Supports programme. Letter to Central Committee CPA, 31 Dec 1963, from J. Horner. 1 leaf handwritten. Enclosing comments. Letter to E. Aarons, 17 Jan 1964, from Len Fox. 1 leaf typescript. Enclosing criticism. Attached : Criticism of Draft Policy on Aborigines, 2 leaves typescript, with handwritten corrections. Notes on criticisms received, 19 Feb 1964, from Daisy Marchisotti. 3 leaves typescript. Refers to criticisms from J. Horner and Len Fox. Letter, 11 Mar 1964, from Wm Kendall. 3 leaves handwritten. Reverse order better, demands first explanations later. Letter to C.P.A. Central Committee, 17 Mar 1964, from Joe McGuinness, Secretary, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League. 1 leaf handwritten. League meeting endorsed draft. Untitled, 2 Apr 1964, from A. King. 3 leaves handwritten. Possibilities of integration or assimilation, i.e. letting Aborigines and other Australians live in the same communities. Letter to C. C. Secretariat, 16 Apr 1964, from W. A. S. E. [Western Australian State Executive]. 1 leaf typescript. Enclosing letter from Western Australian Amalgamated Society of Carpenters & Joiners Union of Workers, 1 leaf typescript, 19 Feb 1964, signed T. W. Henley, supporting programme. Letter to Ted, 24 Jun 1965, from Andy Wallace. 3 leaves handwritten. Passing criticisms from Shirley.

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Address to (21st?) Party Congress. 8 pages carbon copy typescript. Draft programme laid before Congress, some corrections and additions, especially from Fred Rose already to hand. Letter to Gloria, 4 Jul 1967, from Tess Brill. 3 leaves typescript. Comments on the draft and Fred Rose’s comments.

Tribune Letter to Ted, 25 Nov 1970, from Alec. 1 leaf typescript. Article good, asking for more.

Box 10 Queensland Branch. Branches Circular letter to all Brisbane Branches, 2 Feb 1971, from Queensland State Executive. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Party organisation.

Queensland Branch. Finance Donovan, Kevin. 2 pages photocopied typescript. Financial irregularities. Dated 18 Dec 1983.

Queensland Branch. History Dick, Win. et al. Notes on the Party, compiled by Win. Dick, Dave Surplus and Mick Healy. 9 leaves photocopied typescript, with note Ted from Bill Hill. The Party bookshop, compiled by Mick Healy and Dave Surplus, pp. 6-9.

Queensland Branch. May Day Photograph of Party banner in May Day march, early 1970s. Note on back : Return to Party files.

Queensland Branch. Miscellaneous Notes from meetings of apologies and work to be done; notes of names and addresses; two famous last words from Bjelke-Petersen. 12 leaves handwritten.

Queensland Branch. North-West Branch The Australian economy - what now after the budget? 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Discussion meeting 6 Oct [1974?]. Letter to Murray [Broad], 4 Nov 1983, from Ted Bacon for North-West Branch. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript. Party troubles. Copies sent to various persons and branches. Letter to Ted, 16 Nov 1983, from Murray Broad. 10 leaves handwritten.

Queensland Branch. Party Education Written talks, photocopied handouts, lists of readings. Topics include History of the Party; Marxist philosophy; Economics; etc. ______

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Notes on educational work needed. 1 leaf handwritten, note at top : Lee to prepare.

Queensland Branch. Sixtieth Anniversary of the CPA Circular letter, undated, from State Executive. 1 leaf printed typescript. Invitation to celebration, request for further ideas for the celebration. CPA 60th Anniversary Celebration : rough outline of plan. 8 leaves handwritten. History of Communism and the CPA, with spaces marked for music or songs. History of Communism and the CPA. 6 leaves handwritten. Ideas for speakers. 1 leaf handwritten notes. Lists of people to be invited. 4 pages typescript and handwritten in various hands. Note that Ted will prepare first draft of historical script. 1 leaf handwritten. Notes for running order of entertainments. 3 pages handwritten. Notes of Party members active in various places. 1 leaf handwritten. Notes from C[ommunist] A[rts] G[roup] meeting, 6 Jul 1980. 1 leaf handwritten, notes in Ted’s writing added. Suggestions for contributions to celebration. [History of the Party]. Theme 1. 18 leaves handwritten, with corrections, title crossed through. Communist Party history from the beginning to World War II. Theme 2 : The war years & early 40s. 18 leaves handwritten, with corrections. Theme 3: The 50s & 60s. 17 leaves handwritten, with corrections. A carbon copy of the three sections, with envelope addressed to Mrs Nancy Wills, address crossed through, written on envelope Draft history of CPA by E.A. Bacon, and Simon with a phone number. Letter to Nancy [Wills], 21 Aug 1980, from Ted. 1 leaf carbon copy handwritten. Requesting help with music and graphics. Attached : Historical notes for talks at celebration, 2 leaves carbon copy handwritten. Letter to Ted and Patsy, 18 Sep 1980, from Bill Hill. 1 leaf typescript, with handwritten notes. Arrangements for celebration. Handwritten notes on back by Ted, history in decades.

Queensland Branch. State Committee Untitled. 12 leaves handwritten. Party members working with Australia-USSR Society after invasion of Czechoslovakia. Attached : Australia-U.S.S.R. friendship, 1968 : v. 10, no. 5, Sep; Circular letter and press release, 26 Aug 1968, from Peg Penberthy, Secretary Brisbane Branch of the Society, 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Untitled. [Party can no longer afford to pay full-time workers]. 10 leaves handwritten, with later corrections and amendments. Notes of a meeting. 5 leaves handwritten. Undated. Circular letter, 13 Mar 1990, from Judy Stevens, Paul Norton. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Next State Committee/Cadres’ meeting.

Queensland Branch. State Conferences Untitled. [Address to State Conference 1969]. 18 leaves handwritten, with corrections.

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Proposed agendas for State Conference. 2 leaves handwritten, undated, may be two different conferences. Untitled. [Address, 1969(?)]. 50 leaves handwritten, numbered 3 to 52, beginning missing. Party in the wider society. Untitled. [Notes on reorganisation of Party work in Brisbane area]. 7 leaves handwritten. probable 1969 or 1970. Untitled. [Address to State Conference, undated, 1970s(?)] 9 leaves handwritten with amendments. Party education necessary. Queensland CPA State Conference 1977. Name on cover Ted Bacon. Contains Agenda and draft resolutions. Attached ; Draft political resolution, 4 pages duplicated typescript; CPA Newsletter, 13 Sep 1977, 2 pages duplicated typescript, State Conference date postponed; The Queensland election : ‘Law and order’ or a police state, 4 pages printed; Resolution on Party organization, 2 pages duplicated typescript; Letter resigning from the CPA, 1 leaf duplicated typescript, not signed.

Queensland Branch. Women’s Collective Minutes of Women’s Collective discussion, 29 Jun 1974. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Reminder notice, 17 Sep 1974. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Next meeting

Communists and the Labour Movement Conference, 1980 Re : Communists and the Labour Movement Conference. 2 pages photocopied typescript. Ideas for the Conference and its use in building the Party. Letter to Ted, 15 Feb 1980, from Carmel. 2 pages handwritten. Planning for Conference, ways Ted could help. Letter to Ted, 21 Feb 1980, from Mark Taft and Carmel Shute. 1` leaf duplicated typescript, Ted’s name typed in, signatures handwritten. Planning for Conference. Attached : Draft outline of Conference, 3 pages duplicated typescript. Another copy addressed to Eva, piece torn off at bottom, handwritten notes on verso. Letter to Carmel Shute, 9 April 1980, from Mick Healy, 1 leaf typescript. Attached : Paper on united campaigns by Communists and Trade Unionists while Healy was Secretary of the Queensland Trades & Labor Council., 7 leaves photocopied typescript. Letter to Ted, [25 May 1980], from Carmel. 1 leaf handwritten on verso of duplicated typescript circular letter. Important to collect archives and oral history. Circular letter on verso to all State and District Committees of the Party, asking for help, also signed by Carmel Shute. Letter to Carmel [Shute], 17 Jun 1980, from Ted. 4 leaves handwritten, heavily corrected. Possible contributions by Ted to the Conference. 1920/1980, sixty years of struggle, sixty years for socialism : the movement continues. 4 pages printed, with handwritten notes on front. Programme and registration form, not filled in.

Conference of Radicals for Ecology Action Change of meeting date. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Working towards conference in 1975.

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Education Letter to Allan ?, 20 Jun 1968, unsigned [from Ted?]. 4 leaves carbon copy typescript. Trade unions and education.

Foreign investments Herbert, H. W. ‘. . Depose the dinosaurs’. An economist’s view. Sunday Mail, 30 Jul 1972.

Fox, Len Draft letter to Len, undated, from Ted. 4 leaves handwritten. Admiration for his work, may be able to help Fox.

Hardy, Frank Letter to Ted, 26 Oct 1978, from Rosemary Waghorn. 1 leaf typescript, handwritten telephone number. Asking for help with a book Hardy was writing. Attached : Envelope, with note that Ted answered by phone, 13 Nov 1978.

Hawke, R. J. The mild colonial boy. Parody of The wild colonial boy.

Indonesia Draft letter to Tribune, from Ted. 9 leaves handwritten. Support for East Timor, current Indonesian regime should not be supported. Note : Letter sent 18 Mar 1976. [Incomplete article on Indonesia]. Weekend Guardian, 8-9 Sep 1990, 5-6. Two pages (out of three?), first page missing.

Land Rights Notes, written by Eva, on meeting with Bob Weatherall. 4 pages. Conditions for Aborigines on reserves and outstations. Land rights Queensland : threats to Aboriginal reserve areas in Queensland. Photocopied map. Perhaps meant to accompany Ted’s paper on land rights. Waterford, Jack. ‘Vote today on new policy : Aborigines split over national land rights’. Photocopied press clipping, no source, no date. Your home is sacred. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Mining a danger only in the bush, not in the city. In Unity. Australian Council of Churches. 1980 : v. 27 no.3, Sep. Article ‘Aboriginal land rights : death by mechanical drill’, on front page. Foley, Matthew. The Aborigines Act 1971 - ten years after. 13 pages duplicated typescript, name Robert Weatherall at top. Paper presented to Queensland Council for Civil Liberties Seminar on Civil Rights for Black Queenslanders, 24 Oct 1981.

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Brennan, Frank. Right reasons for Aboriginal land rights. 45 pages photocopied typescript on 23 leaves. Paper given to Towards justice and peace : annual conference of religious education, Brisbane, 2 May 1984. FAIRA rejects the Preferred National Land Rights Model. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, hand printed notes on back.. Katter, R.C. Speech notes, second reading Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (Land Holding) Act 1985. 8 leaves photocopied typescript. Land rights in Queensland. 11 leaves handwritten, heavily corrected, notes in another hand. Land rights in Queensland, by Ted Bacon, 22 Jul 1985. 4 leaves typescript, with handwritten corrections and additions. Typed from previous item. Land rights in Qld. 10 leaves photocopied hand printing, with corrections, another 6 leaves are duplicates. About 1985, not by Ted. Brennan, Frank. The Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (Land Holding) Act 1985. 8 leaves photocopied typescript. Consultation document, no. 10, 10 Apr 1985. Aboriginal land rights national support group. Week of protest, May 10-16, 1985, Canberra. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Planned protests, appeal for funds. The National Land Rights Campaign. Land rights action, Canberra, May 13th. Advertisement in National Times, 10-16 May 1985, 23. The 4th National Aboriginal Organisations Land Rights Summit Meeting on Saturday May 11 1985, moved the following resolutions. 3 leaves photocopied typescript. Horin, Adele. ‘Another country’. National Times, 17-23 May 1985, 9-10, 12, 15, 45. Morley, Peter. ‘Land deeds issued this month : Katter’. Courier-Mail, 19 Jun 1985.

League of Rights Behind the screaming. 1 leaf handwritten. Notes on right-wing organisations and their manner of work. Fluoridation? Research scientists warn. 1 leaf printed. Authorised by J.E. Harding for the Anti- Fluoridation Association. Untitled. 4 leaves handwritten. Anti-Communist manifestations. The Melbourne Spy reveals The secret life of Eric Butler - and “Killen the Com”. 3 pages printed. Extract from Nation (Sydney), 26 Sep 1959. Combat, the voice of race & nation : official organ of the British National Party. No. 13, Aug-Oct 1961. 6 leaves handwritten. Analysis of this issue. “Better for world if Britain stays outside ‘market’”. Courier-Mail, 5 Jun 1962. Campagnolo, E. ‘State aid to schools’ : letter to the editor. Press clipping, no source [Courier-Mail], no date [after 3 Aug 1962].

Lectures On the nature of revolution. 3 leaves carbon copy typescript, incomplete. Untitled. 11 leaves handwritten. About democracy. ______

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How to beat the union-bashers. 12 leaves handwritten, heavily corrected. On verso of leaves duplicated typescript dated 1961. Untitled. 21 leaves typescript, with corrections in writing, name at top E.A. Bacon, and Uni history club 13/4/65. Marxist interpretation of history. Myth of the bush. 4 leaves handwritten, mostly in note form. On verso of leaves notice of a meeting on 9 Dec 1968. Untitled. 7 leaves handwritten. Work against Fraser reforms and economic rationalism. Rosa Luxemburg. 4 leaves handwritten, with corrections. On verso of leaves notice about Prices and Incomes referendum 1973. Notes for students. 4 leaves handwritten, with corrections. Party educational; on verso of leaves notices referring to 1975. Surplus value - the continuing source of capitalist accumulation : addendum to Harnecke, Chapter III. 19 leaves handwritten, with corrections. Attached : note from Kev. Another copy, 4 leaves typescript, dated November 1979. Diagrams : Production goods and Consumption goods; Simple reproduction; Extended reproduction (3), probably intended to go with this paper. Untitled. 16 leaves handwritten, dated 24 Aug 1985; handwritten notes on verso of last page. Marxism today. The Gulf War, 7 Apr 1991. 15 leaves handwritten.

Box 11 Marxism Photocopies from three different books. 10 leaves.

May Day Labour Day 1985. Photocopied booklet, 1 leaf history of May Day, 4 leaves labour and revolutionary songs (no tunes).

Miscellaneous Menu, Potts Point, Darwin, Sept 6, ‘48. 1 printed copy, with initials M. W. in ink, 1 typescript facsimile. Parodied dishes. Seven foreign stamps in an Australian envelope stamped Passed by censor. Six currency notes of the Japanese Government.

Notes Handwritten notes on leaves of paper, in writing pads and exercise books; for Party educationals, articles, talks, etc.

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O’Brien, Phil (J. P.) Letter to Ted, Feb 1988, from Phil O’Brien. 1 leaf handwritten. re his autobiography. Attached : Letter to O’Brien 1 Mar 1987 from Peter Charlton, 1 leaf photocopied typescript, with handwritten notes by O’Brien; Letter to O’Brien undated from Rupert Lockwood, 1 leaf photocopied typescript, with handwritten notes and corrections by Lockwood and O’Brien; 6 leaves of photocopied press clippings, some from Maritime Worker, some without source; Autobiographical notes, mostly reminiscences of his and his father’s war experiences, by O’Brien, 6 leaves photocopied handwritten.

Paris Commune, 1871 Untitled. Begins : Terminology is always a potential trap. 8 leaves carbon copy typescript, with handwritten corrections. First of two articles on the history of communes and the Paris Commune. Untitled. Begins : Formal celebration of ever [i.e. even] the greatest anniversaries has little to recommend it. 7 leaves carbon copy typescript, with handwritten corrections. Second article on the Paris Commune and later developments in socialism. Notes. 3 leaves handwritten. Letter to Ted, undated, from Pete [Thomas?]. 1 leaf typed. Quotation about Communards passing through Australia.

Press clippings Hall, Stuart. ‘Realignment - for what?’ Photocopy from Marxism Today, Dec 1985, 12-17. 2 pages miscellaneous press clippings pasted to backing sheet, including ‘Losses in war time’ from Brisbane Courier.

Red Flag riots, Brisbane Jeffery, Norman. Letter to the editor, Tribune, 24 Apr 1959. 5 leaves typescript, note at top Copy for Ted Bacon. Reminiscences of the riots by one who was there, names and later fates of some of those sent to prison.

Reunions, ex-members of CPA Queensland Branch Notes, a few typed, of meetings preparing for reunions of ex-party members in 1992 and 1993; includes one letter of apology for non-attendance Rose, Frederick George Gordon. The Traditional mode of production of the Australian Aborigines Letter to Ted, 13 Nov 1987, from Fred [Rose]. 1 leaf typescript. Book published by Angus & Robertson. Attached : Text of ABC ‘Science Bookshop’ review of Rose’s Traditional mode of production of the Australian Aborigines, by Humphrey McQueen, 4 leaves carbon copy typescript; Envelope.

Sendy, John. Publications Letter to Ted, 15 Sep [1977?], from John Sendy. 2 pages handwritten. Thanks for material, asking for more about Australian Aborigines. Attached : Envelope. ______

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Letter to Ted, 1 Jan [1978?], from John Sendy. 3 pages handwritten. Thanks for material sent, asking for personal opinions. Letter to Ted, 21 Apr [1978?], from John Sendy. 5 pages handwritten. Plan of book, asking for Ted’s contributions. Attached : Envelope. Letter to Ted, June 13 {1978?], from John Sendy. 1 leaf handwritten. Nothing from Ted yet, other book coming out. Letter to Ted, 27 Jun 1978, from John Sendy. 1 leaf handwritten. Question about information from Ted, no brochures for Sendy’s book. Letter to Ted, 14 Aug 1978, from John Sendy. 2 leaves handwritten. Mixup about publicity for his book. Letter to Ted, 23 May 1979, from John Sendy. 1 leaf handwritten. Sending booklet.

Siracusa, Joseph M. Draft letter to the editor, [Courier-Mail], undated, from Ted. 1 leaf handwritten, on verso of notice of public meeting Afghanistan and the worldwide crisis of imperialism, 4 views from the left. Answer to a Letter to the editor from Siracusa. Attached : Gold medals to Afghan mothers, letter to the editor, from Siracusa, Press clipping [Courier-Mail], 29 May 1980.

Slater, Jim Outline of introduction and questions for a taped interview with Jim Slater. 5 leaves handwritten.

Sugar industry Letter to Abbert [sic], 1 Nov no year, from Doug. 6 leaves handwritten. Conditions on the Burdekin, struggle for day labour rates instead of contracts.

Wills, Nancy. Publications To Nancy, undated, from Ted. 6 leaves handwritten, heavily corrected in parts. World War II. Letter to Ted, undated, from Nancy Wills. 2 leaves typescript, with handwritten corrections. Working on book (Shades of red?), asking for help. Letter to Ted, undated, from Nancy Wills. 2 leaves handwritten. Revisions to Deep Bells Ring, for return season, no reference books available in Tweed Heads. Note that it was answered 27 Jul 1987.

Women and Labour Conferences Letter to Eva, 28 May 1980, from Carmel. 2 pages handwritten. Next Conference in Brisbane, no name change. Marked as answered on 30 Jun 1980.

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Workers’ Control Workers’ Control Movement smorgasbord cabaret, 27 Oct [1973]. 1 leaf duplicated typescript and drawing.

Incomplete manuscripts A large number of handwritten leaves. Articles and addresses, some without beginning, some without ending.

Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders ACTU Executive. Aborigines, submitted as a recommendation by the Executive to Congress. Sep 1965. 3 leaves photocopied typescript, original stamped Australian Council of Trade Unions, handwritten notation on original. Circular from Q[eensland] S[tate] E[xecutive] to Districts, Sections, Branches and Sub- Committees, 29 Mar 1960, on conditions of Aborigines. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Attached : A new stage in the development of the Aboriginal people, from Communist Review, Sep 1954, 4 pages duplicated typescript. Communist policy on the Aborigines of Australia (first draft). 9 leaves duplicated typescript, handwritten notes and marks; another copy, leaves 1, 4, 5, 6, 8 only, with handwritten amendments and an addendum to leaf 6. Covering note from H. Stein, 23 Aug 1963, naming E.A. Bacon as the author, 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Communist policy on the Aborigines of Australia (draft for discussion). 2 copies, both with handwritten alterations. 20th Congress of the Communist Party of Australia, 1964. Communist Review, no. 264, Dec 1963. Contains : E.A. Bacon. ‘On the draft Programme on Aborigines’, from a speech to C[entral] C[ommittee] meeting. pp. 406-407. Full rights for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders : Communist policy statement. 18 leaves typescript, partly carbon copy. Begins : Having spent all my adult working life around country towns . . .. 2 leaves typescript, pencil note. Unsigned, from Sydney City section. Hornier, J. Comments on the Draft policy on Aborigines of the Australian Communist Party. 3 leaves typescript, some notes and marks in ink and pencil. National Missionary Council of Australia. The meaning of assimilation (supplement to ‘General policy on Aborigines’). Jun 1963. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript, pencil note. Begins : The Party’s draft policy on the Aborigines has been discussed very widely. 3 leaves typescript, some handwritten corrections. Symon, Peter. A new stage in assimilation. 6 leaves carbon copy typescript, minor correction in ink. Some notes on Aboriginal social customs. 11 leaves typescript with handwritten corrections. Wright, T. New deal for the Aborigines. foreword by Katharine Susannah Prichard. 2nd ed. Sydney : Current Book Distributors, 1944. Robertson, Alec. Australian neo-imperialism in Papua New Guinea. Feb 1972. 17 pages duplicated typescript.

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Stein, M. Notes on reasons behind the early and post-war immigration drives. 17 leaves carbon copy typescript, some handwritten corrections.

United Nations. World Conference of the International Women’s Year, 1975. Mexico City Addresses Hutar, Patricia, Head of the US delegation. 13 leaves duplicated typescript.

Agenda item 11 UN World Conference of the International Women’s Year. World Plan of Action, item 11 of the provisional agenda. 47 leaves photocopied typescript. UN World Conference of the International Women’s Year. First Committee. Agenda item 11, draft declaration. 6 leaves photocopied typescript, pencil marks.

Associated material Amnesty International. Proposed resolution. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Internationella foreningen for Invandrakvinnor. Invandrakvinnan och jamlikheten = La mujer extranjera la igualdad = The immigrant woman and the equality. 4 leaves photocopied typescript, handwritten note on cover, marks on original of p.3. In English. Questionnaire, cross-cultural survey of women. 5 pages duplicated typescript, not filled in. Seminaire sur le desarmement. Declaration, 9 mai 1975. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. In French. Sexism and racism as determinents [sic] of the status and treatment of Aboriginal men and women in Australia. 20 leaves photocopied typescript, name Carol Ambrus written on p.1 of original. United Nations Centre for Economic and Social Information. UN to hold encounter for Third World journalists in Mexico City prior to World Conference for International Women’s Year. Press release. 2 leaves photocopied typescript. Working Women’s Centre, Vic. 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

Australian delegation Australian Embassy, Mexico. Press release [14(?) Jun 1975]. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. ‘Elizabeth Reid, a dynamic Australian woman’ [English translation of article]. El Universal, Mexico City, 14 Jun 1975. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Australian Diplomatic Network. News conference : Mrs Margaret Whitlam and Ms Elizabeth Reid, 15 Jun 1975 at Juarez Airport. 3 leaves photocopied typescript. Diplomatic Corps activities for Women’s International Year. Australian personalities. Press release, 16 Jun 1975. 2 leaves photocopied typescript. ‘Penelope Wensley asks for a new world economic order’ [English translation of article]. El Universal, Mexico City, 20 Jun 1975. 1 leaf photocopied typescript, corrections in green ballpoint. Reception to Australian ladies. Press release, 20 Jun 1975. 1 leaf photocopied typescript.

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Prostitution. Submission on this section of the Draft World Plan of Action. 5 leaves photocopied typescript, handwritten corrections on original. Reid, Elizabeth. Statement to the Third Plenary Meeting of the World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico City, 19 June to 2 July 1975. 14 leaves photocopied typescript, name E. Bacon written on cover. Press clippings and periodicals ‘Feminists disrupt embassy meeting’, by AP. Press clipping, no source no date. International Women’s Year Action / Resource Bulletin. Joint Task Force on IWY, Washington DC. Mar 1975. 4 p. People, v.2 no. 2, 1975. English ed. London : International Planned Parenthood Foundation. ‘The selling of Women’s Year 1975 : UN is finding it no easy matter’, by Kathleen Teltsch. New York Times, 4 Jun 1975. 1 leaf photocopy, headed Australian Information Service. ‘Women’s Year sessions begin’, by Roberto Mena. The News, Mexico City, 16 Jun 1975, pp. 1 and 17, 2 leaves photocopy. Xilonen, Mexico City. 1975 : Jun 20, 23, 24, 25, 27, 27, 30, Jul 1. In English and Spanish. ‘Sparks fly at women’s meet’, by Roberto Mena. The News, Mexico City, 22 Jun 1975. pp. 1 and 18. Soviet News Bulletin, 1975 : 23 Jun, no. 15/345; 19 Sep, no. 25/355. Canberra : USSR Embassy Press Office. Translated from Russian. ‘Tribune told of world poverty’, by Roberto Mena. The News, Mexico City, 1 Jul 1975. p.2. ‘The sexes : Letting their hair down’. Time. 7 Jul 1975. p.37. 1 leaf photocopy. ‘Mexico : IWY. Women’s conferences’, by Anne Roberts. Tribune, Sydney, 29 Jul 1975.

Recommendations Working Group on Health, Nutrition and Family Planning. Recommendations. 5 leaves photocopied typescript, slight corrections on original.

Reports Education Workshops. Summary report, 2nd draft, 17 June. 4 leaves duplicated typescript, some underlining. Group V. Report on organizations related to women in development. 6 leaves photocopied typescript, some underlining. Workshop on Food Production and Small Technology of the AAAS Seminar in Mexico, 16-18 June 1975. 5 leaves photocopied typescript, corrections on original, one note on this copy. Tribuna Australian delegates Application form to attend Tribuna. Illustrated folder. Preliminary program. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. Programme : Tribuna, International Women’s Year, 19 June-2 July. New York : Population Tribune, 1975. 32p. Handwritten notes.

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Program annex, 19 June 1975. 2 leaves duplicated typescript, handwritten note. List of funded Australian delegates to Tribuna. 1 leaf photocopied typescript.

Submissions Bebbington, Laurie. Lesbian speech. 3 leaves photocopied typescript. International Tribunal on Crimes against Women. 3 leaves photocopied typescript. Letter from Sudan. 28 Apr 1975. Female circumcision. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Marois, Maurice. Presentation to Panel on Birth Defects. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Resolution on crimes against women. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Suggested revisions to the United Nations World Plan of Action for International Women’s Year. 34p. duplicated typescript, marks in green ballpen ink. Spanish version not found. Report on Tribuna Smith, Yvonne. Report from Yvonne Smith who was elected by the AMIEU Federal Council to attend the World Conference. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript.

Publications Meeting in Mexico : the story of the World Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City, 18 June-2 July 1975). New York : United Nations, 1975. Los derechos de la mujer = Woman’s rights = Les droits de la femme. Mexico, 1975. Mexico : Consejo nacional de poblacion, 1975. Mexico : Ideario de la mujer = Breviaire de la femme = The woman’s breviary = Ideinaia napravlennost’ zhenshchini. [Mexico] : P. R. I., CNOP., [1975]. In Spanish, French, English, Russian, Chinese, Arabic. Declarations UN General Assembly. Conventions UN Economic and Social Council. Resolutions Unesco - ILO. Recommendations for the rights of women. [Sydney] : Union of Australian Women, [1973]. Hartman, Shirley M. “Lady . . . would you mind moving your truck?” Mexico City : USIS, 1975. (Saber series). Helgerson, Richard W. Women in science and industry. Mexico City : USIS , 1975. (Saber series). Hutar, Patricia. International Women’s Year : agenda for the future. Mexico City : USIS, 1975. (Saber series). Moyers, Bill D. “Daddy, don’t be silly, I’m a girl!” Mexico City : USIS, 1975. (Saber series). A Publisher fights sexism in language. Mexico City : USIS, 1975. (Saber series). Sebsow, Helen D. New directions for women writers. Mexico City : USIS, 1975. (Saber series). Worldwide Peace Day November 1. Folded leaflet. Questions and answers about Worldwide Peace Day. Folded leaflet. What is CORE? Folded leaflet.

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Charte de la femme du Quart-Monde = Charter of the Fourth World women = Carta de la mujer del Cuarto Mundo. Paris. Fan-folded leaflet. Cuba - 75. Folded leaflet.

Box 12 Children Charte de l’enfance. Leaflet. In French. Note in pencil on front : For Eva Bacon. Conference ‘The defence of our children’s education’ 30/9/51. Information sheet nos. 1-4. Each 2 pages duplicated typescript. The cultural life of our Australian children. 10 leaves carbon copy typescript. All clipped together in Petition to Queensland Premier on age of school entry (no signatures). Pencil note on back : Def. of Ch. (Ed. in Q’ld for T’ville). Begins : Attached is material concerning . . .. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript. Australia. [Various statistics]. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript. Expected teacher requirements by 1953. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Pre-school activities in Qld. 3 leaves carbon copy typescript. Schools under Protestant churches. 3 leaves carbon copy typescript. Sex education. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. The Defence of our children’s education : conference report. 9 pages duplicated typescript. Pencil note and name Eva Bacon on cover. Die Gefahrdung der Jugend durch ungeeignete Filme and Filmreklame. Pamphlet. 28 p. Underlining in pen and pencil. In German. International Children’s Day, 1 June. Notes for speakers. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. International Conference in Defence of Children, Vienna, 12-16 April 1952. Information leaflet. Begins : Let us defend the life, . . ., 9 leaves handwritten notes. Letter to Eva Bacon from National Assembly of Women, 18 Sep 1952. 1 leaf typescript, signed Margaret Airen(?) Picture of formal Australian education. 3 leaves carbon copy typescript. Name E. Bacon on first leaf. Protection of the child. 3 leaves typescript. Title and notes handwritten. Resolution on education. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. Name Eva Bacon on first page. Resolution on health. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Name Eva Bacon on first page. Resolution on the influence of the press . . .. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Name Eva Bacon on first page. Spain’s children under the Franco regime. 15 pages duplicated typescript. Name on cover R. Bell. Where our children live. 4 leaves duplicated typescript.

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International Women’s Day (Queensland) Invitation . . . International Women’s Day celebrations 1963. Leaflet.

Miscellaneous Appeal to the workers in all countries. . ..Pamphlet. 30 p. Cover missing. Australian Campaign to Free Angela Davis . . .. Letter soliciting funds. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Begins : In fact and in law . . .. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript. On Aborigines. Letter from Korean Democratic Women’s Union. Central Committee. 19 Apr 1969. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Attached : Press releases about US spy planes over North Korea. 6 leaves photocopied typescript. Queensland Radium Institute. 8th annual report for the year ended 30th June 1952. 3 leaves carbon copy typescript. Trade Unions. 1 leaf typescript. (Extract from a publication?)

Nuclear bomb, nuclear power, uranium mining I want to live : ban atomic weapons. Pamphlet. 27 p.

Queensland : Women’s conditions Clerks & Switchboard Attendants’ Award. 11 leaves carbon copy typescript. “Comics” for sale . . .. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Comics which would not be harmful . . .. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Comments on investigation into comics . . .. 2 leaves carbon copy typescript. Education on Queensland. 2 leaves typescript, name E. Bacon on first leaf. Prostitution. 3 leaves carbon copy typescript. Queensland health. 11 leaves carbon copy typescript, another copy, 35 leaves typescript. Trade union organisation and conditions of hospital staffs. 2 leaves typescript, a few corrections in ink. Women in the country. 4 leaves carbon copy typescript, title added in pencil.

Union of Australian Women Lecture 2. The Union of Australian Women. 4 pages duplicated typescript, name E. Bacon written at top of p. 1. Lecture 3. 2 pages duplicated typescript, name E. Bacon written on front. Our tasks as women have become more urgent than ever. Leaflet.

Women Call for the World Congress of Women. Leaflet. ______

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Begins : In Australia women can receive the “age” pension . . .. 2 leaves typescript. Protection of the mother. 4 leaves carbon copy typescript. Report to [Communist Party] conference on work among women 1960, by R. Dixon. 6 pages duplicated typescript. Name on front A. Hughes. To every woman everywhere. Leaflet. Women! Our vote is important. Leaflet. Federal election 1968. Women of Queensland . . . Where have all the flowers gone? Leaflet. Queensland election 1963.

World Congress of Mothers World Congress of Mothers. Address of Madame Eugenie Cotton to the 5th Council meeting of the WIDF., Geneva, Feb 1955. Pamphlet. 20 p. World Congress of Mothers. News and information, 1955 : 1-2, 5-6.

Box 13 Eugenie Cotton. Berlin : Women’s International Democratic Federation. [197-]. Equality will be won, says Kath Williams. [Sydney] : Coronation Press, [1956]. 32p. For their rights as mothers, workers, citizens. Berlin : Women’s International Democratic Federation, 1952. 64p. Name on title-page E. Bacon. Meeting of the Permanent Committee of Mothers. 22p. Cover missing. 10th Anniversary of the Women’s International Democratic Federation. 40p. 1945-1965 Women’s International Democratic Federation. Berlin : Women’s International Democratic Federation, 1965. As one! For equality for happiness for peace. World Congress of Women, Copenhagen, 5-10 June 1953. Berlin : Women’s International Democratic Federation, 1953. 272p. Name E. Bacon on cover and title-page. World Congress of Mothers, 1955. Documents. 16p. World Trade Union Movement, July 1956. Women’s International Democratic Federation. Documents and Information. no. 8, 12 (1968); no.1, 3 (1969). Women of the whole world. 1953 : no.1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10; 1954 : no. 2, 6, 9, 10-12; 1955 : no. 2, 3, 8/9, 10; 1956 : no. 2, 4, 6, 7, 12; 1957 : no.1-5, 8/9; 1958 : no.1, 2, 7; 1960 : no. 2, 5, 6, 8, 12; 1961 : no.1, 4-5, 9, 11; 1962 : no.1-3, 6; 1963 : no. 2, 10; 1964 : no. 2, 3; 1965 : no.1, 2, 9/10-12; 1966 : no.1, 3; 1970 : no.1; 1973 : no. 4; 1974 : no. 2 & Sup.; 1976 : no. 4.

Abortion and contraception Abortion - a woman’s right to choose. 1 leaf duplicated typescript, dated 1975 at top in ballpoint. Abortion : a woman’s right to choose demo, Sat. March 9th [1974]. Membership form for Women’s Abortion Action Campaign. 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated 1972 on first page. 2 copies.

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Contraception. 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated 1972 in ballpoint. [Italian abortion law] November 22, 1978. 10 pages duplicated typescript. Legal abortions. Membership form for Children by Choice Association. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Stop attacks on New Zealand women’s right to abortion. Leaflet, front extensively marked, dated 1978 in red ballpoint. A woman’s right to choose - repeal all abortion laws. 2 pages duplicated typescript.

Aurukun and Mornington Island Aboriginal funds need help! Send your donation today. Leaflet. Dated 1978 in ballpoint, funds for Aurukun and Mornington Island. [Form letters in support of Aurukun and Mornington Island people]. Blanks not filled in. One to the Community Council, one to the Prime Minister. Duplicated typescript, dated 1978 in ballpoint. Journey to Aurukun and Mornington Island, by Noel Preston. 6 pages duplicated typescript, dated 1978/79 in ballpoint.

Australian Women’s Trade Union Conference, 1976 Australian Council of Trade Unions. ACTU policies on women. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Australian Women’s Trade Union Conference, August 6-7-8, 1976. Registration form. Australian Women’s Trade Union Conference. Program, August 6-7-8, 1976. 4 p. Handwritten notes. The Case for womens caucuses. 2 pages duplicated typescript. ‘Contribution’, by Y. Smith. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Guidelines and outlines for workshops on Women and Trade Unions. 10 leaves duplicated typescript. Militant, supplement. Working Womens Charter Campaign. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Outlines for workshops on Women and Work. 16 pages duplicated typescript. ‘Union maid’, Woman Action Theatre. Song, no music. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Women unions 1976. booklet. 32 p. Womens Trade Union Commission. Opening address - Justice Elizabeth Evatt. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Womens Trade Union Commission. WTUC. recommendations for working women. 2 leaves duplicated typescript and covering note. Women’s Trade Union Conference. Questionnaire. 5 leaves duplicated typescript, blanks not filled in.

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Conferences and workshops in Australia Documents of Worker’s Control Conference, Newcastle, Easter 1973. Statement from women attending. 3 pages duplicated typescript. ‘Some thoughts - not very well organised - on several papers’, Mavis Robertson. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Note on first page : Women’s Lib. Conf. June 1972, Sydney. Weekend at Sorrento, 10-12 October 1972. Report. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Weekend Workshop on the Women’s Movement and the Media, November 28-29th. 7 pages duplicated typescript, dated in ballpoint 1975 or 76. [Neither year is possible]. ‘Women’s Liberation and the left’, Biff Macdougall, June 1973. 3 pages duplicated typescript. Note on first page : Women’s Lib. Conf. Sydney, June 1972.

Consciousness raising / Oppression ‘Consciousness-raising (small groups). Some topics for discussion’, Babette Chamberlain. 2 leaves duplicated typescript, dated 1972 in ballpoint on first page. ECOSO Exchange, no. 11, 1976. 9 pages duplicated typescript, strip attached headed : Reading material for women’s discussion, carbon copy typescript. Open letter from three women comrades. Begins : Until the present time there has not been a radical feminist . . .. 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated 1972 in ballpoint, some marks on back page. ‘Origins of women’s oppression’, Martha Ansara and Maria Taylor. 5 leaves duplicated typescript, dated 1976? in ballpoint on first page. Our lives, our freedom. Women are not chicks. Leaflet. Dated 30/10/78 in ballpoint on first page. The politics of popular fronts; or, How the Socialist Left lost the ‘leadership’. 4 pages duplicated typescript, dated 1972? in ballpoint. Women’s films. Leaflet from Sydney Women’s Filmgroup. Another title added in handwriting.

Discrimination National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (Australia). Annual report. 2nd, 1974-75. 29 p. Name E. Bacon on cover.

International Tribunal on Crimes against Women Isis : international bulletin newsletter. Mar 1976. Photocopy of whole issue, 24 p. Press clipping. No source no date. pp. 19-22. Report from Christina Cubbeson - Australian. 4 leaves photocopied typescript, incomplete, crossed through on original, author’s name handwritten on original. ‘Report on International Tribunal on Crimes against Women’, by Sue Chitty. Press clipping, no source no date; 3 pieces of photocopy sticky-taped to backing sheet. Reports on the Tribunal, 22 Mar 1976. 14 pages photocopied typescript, some in French and Spanish, marks on one page in ballpoint.

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Reports (?) 2 leaves photocopied, numbered 2 and 3.

Correspondence (all photocopied) Diana Russell to Coordinating Committee and National Contacts, enclosing press release on Tribunal 1 leaf handwritten, 29 Mar 1976. Attached : Press release, 5 pages typescript. Diana Russell to ITCAW Coordinating Committee and National Contacts, about publishing the English language book on the Tribunal. 1 leaf typescript, addresses to Dear Laurie and postscript handwritten on original, 8 Jun 1976 Lydia Horton to Dear Sisters, asking for contributions to the book, 18 Jun 1976 Diana Russell and Nicole Van de Ven to National Contacts and Coordinating Committee, asking who should be acknowledged in the book, 23 Jun 1976 Lydia Horton to National Contacts and Coordinating Committee, enclosing accounts. 2 pages typescript. Attached : Accounts, 3 pages typescript, 30 Jun 1976

International Women’s Day To all women. 2 leaves typescript, dated 1970? or later in ballpoint on first page. Tribune Magazine. Special IWD issue, March 5 1980.

International Women’s Day (New South Wales) 1980 70th anniversary of International Women’s Day. 4 p. Women’s march on March 11th. Leaflet, 4 p.

International Women’s Day (Queensland) Bacon, Eva. Handwritten notes on the 79th anniversary of IWD, 1989. 17 leaves, some with notes on back as well. IWD. Socialist Women. Leaflet. International Women’s Day. 2 pages photocopied typescript. International Women’s Day. Leaflet, dated 1979 in ballpoint on first page. International Women’s Day. Leaflet issued by the Women’s Collective, Communist Party of Australia, 7/3/78. International Women’s Day, rally 11 March. Leaflet, dated 1978 on first page. International Women’s Day 1979 rally and march. Leaflet. Public meeting, International Women’s Day, Thursday March 8 [1973 or 1979]. 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

Miscellaneous ‘May Day in Queensland, 1891 to 1979’, Megan Martin. 4 p.

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Media Women’s Child Care Committee. Preliminary report and proposals, July 1972. 19 pages duplicated typescript, WEL. Research Library written on first page. Stop the American Bicentennial brainwash in Australia. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Wilson Youth Hospital - finishing school for young ladies? by Liz Davies. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Dated 1972? in ballpoint.

New South Wales Hunter Region Working Womens Group. Working Womens Centre, Newcastle. Leaflet about the Centre. Notice of the Second National Conference on Women’s Health, May 1977, to be held at the Centre. Paper on women’s unemployment. 11 leaves photocopied typescript and covering note.

Northern Ireland Britain’s concrete monument of shame - the H-blocks at Long Kesh. Leaflet, dated 30/10/78 in ballpoint. The British way of life in Ireland. Leaflet, dated 1979? on first page.

Nuclear bomb, nuclear power, uranium mining A call to women for a decision on nuclear power. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Attached : Business card of Penelope Rich, Woman to woman, building the earth for the children’s sake. Campaign against Nuclear Power (Qld). Memo, 23 Aug 1978. 2 pages photocopied typescript, dated 1978. Uranium mining and the Atomic Energy Act. Membership form for Campaign against Nuclear Power. Dated 1978 on first page. WAUM trade union news. 4p. Workers against uranium mining.

Overseas material Japan: Agora : a Japanese quarterly journal on women’s studies. Leaflet. Mexico: Press clippings from Cemanahuac, reprinted. New Zealand: Femina : New Zealand’s political newspaper for women, no. 3, Nov 1975. USA  Alice doesn’t. Leaflet, National Women’s Strike Day, 29 Oct 1975.  Have a heart! Leaflet of the United Front of Ukrainian Women in the Free World.  Know Inc, Pittsburgh PA. Know News, v.6 no. 4, Jun-Jul 1975.  5 leaflets about books published by Know Inc.  Susan B. Anthony statement on voting. Press clipping, no source no date.

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 San Francisco Women’s Centers Inc. Newsletter, 1974 : Dec; 1975 : Feb, Apr, May.  Union WAGE, no. 29 May-Jun 1975.  Western Service Workers Association. California Homemakers Association. 3 leaflets about the association; Negotiation demands, 2 copies one typed, one printed; Pledge, 2 copies, one with new address; (California) Service Worker, v.3 nos. 1, 2 : 1975 : Jan 15, May 15; What’s available for workers out of work? leaflet.  The Woman’s Machiavelli, by Prudence Freeman. Flyer for the book and business card of Dorothy Woodworth.  Women’s assertiveness training workshops. Leaflet with handwritten notes.

Press cuttings ‘The future of women in Australian medicine’, by I. Fett. The Medical Journal of Australia. Special Supplement, v.2, no. 2, 20 Nov 1976, pp. 32-39. Photocopy. ‘Gloria Steinem and Elizabeth Reid talk about revolution’. The Bulletin, 10 Jan 1976, pp. 39-44. Initials E.B. on first page. Miscellaneous articles on women’s liberation photocopied as pp. 1-40. First page ‘United Nations. Declaration on the elimination of discrimination against women’. ‘The risks of the IUD’. Newsweek, 25 Jun 1973, pp. 54-55. ‘The strange case of the psychic housewife’, Kenneth L. Woodward. New Idea, 3 Aug 1974, pp. 20-21, 58. United National General Assembly. Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order. 16 May 1974. 2 leaves photocopied typescript, handwritten notes on original.

Right to March Civil liberties rally and march, Monday 30 Oct [1978]. Leaflet. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Civil liberties rally and march, 7-12-78. Programme. 2 pages duplicated typescript. Civil liberties - whose? Leaflet issued by the Socialist Party of Australia. Dated 30-10-78 in ballpoint. How best not to co-operate. 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated 30/10/78 in ballpoint. How to win the right to march. Membership form for Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Youth Alliance, dated 7/12/78 in ballpoint. Joh must go! Leaflet of the Civil Liberties Co-ordinating Committee. Dated 7/12/78 in ballpoint on first page. October 22 Why we must march. Leaflet, dated 1978 in ballpoint on first page. Stop Bjelke now. Leaflet issued by the Socialist Party of Australia. 1 leaf photocopied typescript, dated 7/12/78 in ballpoint. Vote with your feet - march! Leaflet, dated 1978 in ballpoint.

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Status of women Being female in today’s society : submission to Inquiry into the Status of Women in Queensland. 8 leaves photocopied typescript and covering letter to Commissioner, 1 leaf. ‘Social problems of disabled women’, by W.J. Metcalf, WEL. Committee of Investigation : Problems of Disabled Women. 8 leaves photocopied typescript. Status of women in Canada. 1972. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. ‘Women and technology. Supplementary paper on radical ecology and women’, Janna L.T. Thompson. 14 leaves photocopied typescript, handwritten emendations on original. Dated 1976? in ballpoint on first page.

United Nations. World Conference of the International Women’s Year, 1975. Mexico City. Associated material Organizacion femenil nacional de jovenes profesionales, A.C. Circular requesting submissions for an Antology [sic] of women poets in the world. 19 Jun 1975. Women’s History Research Center, Berkeley, California. International Women’s History Archive and other publications available. 5 leaflets. Australian delegation: Reid, Elizabeth. Statement to the Third Plenary Meeting of the World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico City, 19 June to 2 July 1975. Another copy, 6 pages duplicated typescript. Report by the Australian National Advisory Committee International Women’s Year. 20 pages photocopied typescript, scribble on front page. Press clippings and periodicals ‘Inside Mexico’, Margaret Shields, New Zealand government delegate. Femina, [undated], p.3. Press clipping. Submissions The situation of women in Lithuania. 8 pages duplicated typescript.

Tribuna Bacon, Eva Australian Embassy, Mexico. Folder. Now contains only a note from the Dept of Administrative Services to E. Bacon, 3 Aug 1976. Session reports Women and trade unions, panel discussion, 1 July 1975. Summary. 2 leaves duplicated typescript.

Victoria Discussion papers, nos. 2-10. Working Womens Centre, Melbourne. Working Women’s charter, draft. 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

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Women and political parties Manifesto of the Socialist Woman Group. 2 pages duplicated typescript, address handwritten on back page. On December 13 [1975] will women win? Leaflet for Federal election. 4 p. Women’s liberation and the left. 2 pages duplicated typescript, dated 1970 in ballpoint, marks on last page.

Women and trade unions ACTU charter for working women. Leaflet, dated 1978? on first page. ACTU statement on child care for working mothers. 23 Mar 1972. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union. Women Members. Resolution, 20 Mar 1972. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Queensland Trade Unions meet on women’s rights. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Working women. Leaflet, dated 1978? at top.

Women in education Australian Union of Students. Annual Council 1977, Jan 13-22. Report of Women’s Officer. 19 pages duplicated typescript. Feminist High School Group. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. There is no such thing as a ‘moderate’ feminist : report on AUS Council 1979, Women’s Commission, Anna McCormack. 10 pages duplicated typescript. Women at university - some demands. 5 leaves duplicated typescript, handwritten additions on original, first page dated 1972? in ballpoint.

Women’s Centres How dare they? Leaflet [1976]. Minerva Camp Women. Announcement. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Open letter from Liz Phillips (WCAA), 31 Aug 1976. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Rape in marriage survey 1982. Summary of main findings. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Shelta. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. The Women’s Centre, Melbourne. Newsletter. Dec 1972. The Women’s Centre at Red Hill. 6 Apr 1973. 1 leaf duplicated typescript. Women’s Community Aid Association (Qld) Ltd. Notice of AGM, 22 Jun 1976. 2 leaves duplicated typescript. Women’s Community Aid Association (Qld) Ltd. Report from directors, 7 Jun 1976. 3 leaves duplicated typescript. Women’s Creative Arts Centre. Newsletter, 1976 : Apr; 1980 : Oct; two leaflets.

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Women’s Collective (Communist Party of Australia) Newsletter. Communist Women’s collective. Sep 1972. 2 pages duplicated typescript.

Women’s Liberation Movement ‘Organization and the Women’s Liberation Movement’, by Vivian Rothstein and Naomi Weisstein. Reprinted from Women : a journal of liberation, v.2 no. 4. 5 pages duplicated typescript. “Where do we go from here”. 22 Nov 1972. Victorian Women’s Liberation. 1 leaf duplicated typescript.

Aurukun and Mornington Island Rousena Toumese speaks. 3 leaves typescript, dated 9/6/78, with pencil corrections (some rubbed out). Another copy, 4 leaves typescript, incorporating pencil corrections and with some corrections in ink.

Australian Women’s Trade Union Conference, 1976 Songbook : Union & women’s songs. 4 pages and 2 leaves duplicated typescript, some handwritten notes.

Bacon, Eva. Trip to Mexico Mexico City. [Mexico} : Camara Nacional de Comercio de la Ciudad de Mexico. Tourist guide. Picture postcards of Mexico and USA, including booklet of postcards of San Francisco. San Miguel de Allende. Mexico : Litografica Turmex. Mostly photographs. In English and Spanish. Tourist map of Mexico City, with some locations marked. Travel book. Name Eva Bacon at front. Notes, addresses, etc. on journey to Tribuna in Mexico and stay in Mexico.

Conferences and workshops in Australia ‘Housing discrimination and women’, by Manda Biles. Paper for International Women’s Decade (1975-85) Conference for Action, March 6, 1977. 4 pages duplicated typescript. Women and Politics Conference, Canberra, 30 Aug-6 Sep 1975. Circular letter from P.J. Galvin, enclosing application forms, car stickers and posters. 1 leaf typescript. Attached : Application form, car sticker.

Consciousness raising / Oppression The Way forward for the revolutionary women’s movement : understanding trashing and sectarianism, Biff Ward and Survivors, a Canberra feminist group. 5 pages duplicated typescript.

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Why is our movement in crisis? International Socialist Women’s Caucus, NSW 2 pages duplicated typescript. The Women’s Liberation Movement, mass consciousness and state power, Joyce Stevens. 2 pages duplicated typescript.

Discrimination United National Economic and Social Council. Draft Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Adelaide : Union of Australian Women, S. Aust. Branch, [undated]. 9 pages duplicated typescript.

Enterprise bargaining ‘Deals can give women a break’, by Natasha Bita. Press clipping. Australian, 22 Jul 1993. ‘Women losing out in work bargains’, by Jennifer Brown. Press clipping. Australian, 10-11 Jul [1993].

International Women’s Day (Queensland) ‘Celebration of militancy’, Marxist-Feminist Group. 2 pages duplicated typescript. International Women’s Day. 2 pages photocopied typescript. 1976. ‘International Women’s Day, twenty-six years of experience in Queensland’, by Eva Bacon with Tracey Smith and Kate McGuckin. 12 leaves (numbered 217-228) photocopied typescript. 1979? Invitation, International Women’s Day, Friday March 6th, 1992. Union of Australian Women, Queensland. International Women’s Day 1975. 8 pages duplicated typescript. Women speak-out. 2 pages photocopied typescript. Leaflet, 1976. Women speak-out. Notice of meeting. Duplicated typescript. ‘Women’s rally for the birds’. Press clipping. Courier-Mail, 9 Mar 1976.

International Women’s Day (South Australia) International Women’s Day Committee [S. Aust] Inc. Letter to All women’s organisations, interested groups and individuals, 15 Jan 1993, enclosing invitation to 1993 IWD. luncheon. Photocopied typescript. Attached : Invitation. Letter to Eva, Ted and Barbara from Irene -----. 26 Apr [1976]. 5 leaves handwritten. Women’s Suffrage Centenary, South Australia 1894-1994. Newsletter, no.1, Dec 1992.

International Women’s Day (Victoria) International Women’s Day. Protect children, no French tests in the Pacific. 5 Mar 1964. Programme.

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Marchisotti, Daisy Daisy. 8 leaves typescript, with corrections. Article later published in Join Hands. Two book reviews, by Daisy Marchisotti. 4 leaves typescript, one correction in ink.

Miscellaneous Queensland. Office of Ageing. Record of meeting, Queensland Seniors’ Forum., Brisbane, 12 Nov 1992. 27 p. Some handwritten notes. Queensland. Dept of Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander affairs. Discussion paper : proposed legislation of Queenslanders with disabilities. Sep 1991. 24 p. Attached : Covering letter from Anne Warner, Minister for Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs. Should mothers receive wages? 1 leaf duplicated typescript, handwritten note From Alma Gordon.

Nuclear bomb, nuclear power, uranium mining Hiroshima Nagasaki never again! Leaflet, dated 1992? in ballpoint on cover. Date of publication 1991.

Occupational health and safety Women’s occupational health and safety - the unmet needs. Recommendations from a conference. 7 p., some handwritten notes.

Oral history project Notice of meeting, 19 Aug [1984]. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. Submission from Chris Dwyer for meeting, 19 Aug. 4 leaves photocopied typescript.

Plowshares Plowshares-Disarmament actions, September 1980-May 1991, by Art Laffin. Plowshares Press Inc, 1991. 19 p. ‘Local activist finds fame in Baghdad, federal economist called pro-military, anti-war’, by Elsa Walsh. Washington Post, 31 Jan 1991, p.24(?) Photocopy. ‘Analyst : Air Force inflated B-52 damage’, by Mike McAndrew. Post-Standard, 30 May 1991, B2. Photocopy. ‘Brisbane bomber buster guilty’. [Courier-Mail], 8 Jun 1991. Press clipping. ‘Parents proud of their peace-activist son’, by Jason Gagliardi. Courier-Mail, 11 Jun 1991. Press clipping. ‘Judge rules out baby bottle defence’, Jim Consedine. Star, 23 Jun 1991. Photocopy. ‘Two different kinds of victories’, Jim Consedine. Star, 24 Jun 1991. Photocopy. ‘Qld activists get one-year US jail term’, Rodney Chester. [Courier-Mail], 22 Aug 1991. Press clipping.

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‘Of bombs and bottles’, by Jim Consedine. Listener, TV and Radio Times, 26 Aug 1991, pp. 1, 5, 14-16, 18. Photocopy. ‘Ex-Attorney General : Plowshares action justified’, by Mike Fish. [Post-Standard], undated. Photocopy. ‘Former top prosecutor sides with war protesters’, by Dan Kane. No source no date. Photocopy. Put the war on trial, come to court with the ANZUS Plowshares. Leaflet, on back typed letter to Eva from [Moana Cole?], p.1 only. No more bombing of children. Circular letter, signed Ciaron O’Reilly, Moana Cole, Sue Frankel, Bill Streit. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. The B-52. Circular letter, signed Moana Cole, Sue Frankel, C. O’Reilly, William Streit. 1 leaf photocopied typescript, with handwritten signatures and Brisbane addresses. ANZUS peace force Plowshares community. Leaflet, signed Moana Cole, Susan Frankel, C. O’Reilly, William Streit. 1 leaf photocopied typescript, with handwritten signatures and Brisbane addresses. ANZUS Plowshares, please keep up your support. 1 leaf printed, on back circular letter from Moana Cole. Support jailed Australian peace activists. Leaflet. ANZUS peace force Plowshares community. 5 pages printed, faxed and photocopied with handwritten corrections on original. This copy headed in handwriting : Eva for your info - Pearl C. ANZUS Plowshares letters from prison. #1 Moana Cole. #3 Ciaron O’Reilly. 1 leaf printed each. The ANZUS Plowshares meet the New World Order. 5 leaves photocopied typescript. Generic description of the action. 1 leaf photocopied typescript. From Moana Cole, 3 Mar 1991. 2 pages photocopied typescript. ANZUS Plowshares out and about. Leaflet, on back Circular letter, 13 Mar 1991, photocopied. typescript; Letter to Eva from Moana Cole, 26 Mar 1991, handwritten. To the peace communities of Australia and New Zealand, on behalf of your country-people, Moana Cole and Ciaron O’Reilly, from Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Elizabeth McAlister. 3 leaves photocopied, handwritten signatures. From Moana Cole. Undated. 2 leaves photocopied typescript. Letter to Eva Bacon from Moana Cole, 8 Feb 1991. Photocopied handwriting, first leaf only. Letter to Eva Bacon from Moana Cole, 10 Oct 1991. 1 leaf handwritten on back of photocopy from New York Times. Marked as answered 9 Dec 1991. Addresses on scrap paper : two for Moana Cole, one for Ciaron O’Reilly, in various handwritings.

Press cuttings ‘Bebel’s “Women and socialism”, its hundredth anniversary’, by Barbara Curthoys. Source noted in ballpoint as Soc. Aug 9, 1978. The Clerk. Mar 1975, p.5. About International Women’s Year. ‘It’s a great year for women!’ by Dianne Corbett. Essendon Gazette, 12 Feb 1975.

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Picture of Mary Gilmore. No source no date. ‘Women from Vietnam’. Scope, 30 Jan 1975. Photocopy.

Rape Rape by any other name . . . Australian Women against Rape. 2 pages duplicated typescript. 7 Jul 1977.

Reunion Reunion. Leaflets 1 and 3. Anti-Vietnam and Right to March struggles.

Status of women Women on women, submission to the Queensland Commission of Inquiry into the Status of Women (1973-74), by the Women’s Collective, Communist Party of Australia. iv, 53 p.

Superannuation ‘Call for super scheme rethink’, by Rod Allen. Courier-Mail, 23 Jul 1993. ‘Changes to super are sexist : Senator’, by Stephen Sealey; and three other articles on superannuation. Courier-Mail, 3 Jul 1992. New South Wales. Women’s Advisory Council. Superannuation and women : issues of access and equity, a report. 40 p. ‘Superannuation shake-up : how it affects you’. Courier-Mail, 1 Jul 1992. Press clipping.

Unemployment Southwell, Ursula M. Letter to the editor of The Australian, 24 Jul 1993. 1 leaf typescript, marked Copy and signed in ink. Taking issue with B.A. Santamaria on unemployment.

Union of Australian Women Bacon, Eva. ‘The Union of Australian Women in Queensland - 1950-1978, some personal recollections’. 10 leaves photocopied typescript, some handwritten notes on original.

United Nations. World Conference of the International Women’s Year, 1975, Mexico City Letter to Eva Bacon from Elizabeth Reid. 27 May 1975. 2 leaves typescript. Invitation to Eva to attend at government expense. Letter to Elizabeth Reid from Eva Bacon. 3 Jun 1975. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Accepting. Letter to Lenore Manderson from Eva Bacon. 4 Jun 1975. 1 leaf carbon copy typescript. Letter to Eva Bacon from Win Metcalf. 9 Jun 1975. 1 leaf typescript, Congratulations.

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Circular letter to Eva from P.J. Galvin. 10 Jun 1975. 2 leaves typescript, partly photocopied, handwritten note. Travel arrangements. Letter to Eva Bacon from H.R. Hamilton, State President, Building Workers’ Industrial Union, Queensland Branch. 13 Jun 1975. 1 leaf typescript. Congratulations. Telegram to Eva Bacon from Children by Choice. 13 Jun 1975. Best wishes. Name tag, signed Eva Bacon. Invitations from Elizabeth Reid, Penelope Wensley, Margaret Whitlam to receptions. Letters [to Ted Bacon] from Eva Bacon. Sunday 23? Jun, 4 pages handwritten; Thursday [no date], 4 leaves handwritten. Letter to Joyce [Stevens] from Eva Bacon. 22 Jun [1975]. 3 pages handwritten in pencil. Handwritten notes by Eva Bacon, including at least one talk she gave. El Heraldo, 24 Jun 1975, p. 4A. Photographs. Eva Bacon is front right in the top left-hand photo. ‘Mexico “A two week sharing experience” : interview with Eva Bacon’. Semper floreat, University of Queensland Students’ Union, undated. Letter to Eva Bacon from Penny Wensley. 8 Jul 1975. 1 leaf typescript. Welcome home. Correspondence with Dept of Administrative Services, 21 Apr 1975 to 16 Nov 1976. Expenditure for attending Tribuna.

Vashti’s voice / Vashti Vashti’s voice, 1975 : no. 12 Winter-Spring. Vashti, 1977 : no. 19 Winter.

Whitehead, Ailsa : nomination for Order of Australia Record of service. 2 leaves photocopied typescript. List of organisations and persons approached for support. 1 leaf handwritten. Letter from Pat Comben, MLA, enclosing nomination procedure. 1 leaf typescript. Letters supporting her nomination from H.A. Whiteford, Acting Director of Mental Health, 6 Aug 1991 K.V. McElligott, Minister for Health, 12 Aug 1991 Malcolm Bell, Priest-in-charge, St George’s Windsor, 28 Aug 1991. Acknowledgment of nomination. Card signed Judith Shackley. Letter to the Secretary, Order of Australia, from Eva Bacon, about slow progress. 25 Jul 1992. Answer from Judith Shackley. 10 Aug 1992. Draft circular letter to supporters on awarding of honour. 1 leaf handwritten. Letter to Eva Bacon from James Riggs, Executive Director, Richmond Fellowship, on awarding of honour. 4 Feb 1993.

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Women and political parties Finch, Lynette. The contradictions between theory and practice of work among women within the Communist Party of Australia, during the 1940s, incorporating the war years. Major essay. Tutor Dr Kay Saunders. 14 leaves photocopied typescript. [Leaves 1 to 7 nearly illegible].

Women and trade unions ‘Union trying to turn back the clock, says Crowley’, by Ann-Marie Moodee, Fiona Carruthers and Steven Wilson. Australian, 15 Apr 1993. Press clipping. Who’s 1 1/2 times as likely to be jobless . . .. Leaflet from Working Women’s Charter. Women and workers’ control. Leaflet and application form for Workers’ Control Conference, Brisbane, 17-18 November 1973. The Working Women’s Charter campaign, discussion paper for Marxist-Feminist Conference. 2 pages photocopied typescript.

Women at Work Women at Work, 1977 : no. 8, Oct; 1978 : no. 9, Mar; another issue unnumbered and undated.

Women’s Collective (Communist Party of Australia) Communist Party of Australia. Congress, 24th, 1974. Women and social liberation. 8 p. Bacon, Eva. [Co-operation with other women’s groups]. 4 leaves duplicated typescript. 22/3/75. Women’s Collective. Circular letter, 1 Jun 1977, inviting women on the left to a discussion on 18th June. Women’s Collective. Circular letter, 1 Jun 1977, asking women comrades to attend a discussion on 18th June. Women’s Collective. Circular letter, undated, announcing further work and a follow-up meeting on 27th August [1977]. The Women’s Collective - let’s clarify things, Lyn Hovey. 3 pages duplicated typescript, with marks in violet ballpoint. ‘Women’s liberation and the Communist Party’. Tribune, 25 May 1977. Press clipping.

Women’s Department News Women’s Department news, no.1-3 [1977?]. Australian National Advisory Committee. International Women’s Year. United Nations World Conference for International Women’s Year - Mexico City - 19 June to 2 July 1975. Report. 4 leaves duplicated typescript, a little underlining in green.

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Box 14 As One! For Equality, For Peace, For Happiness. Reports, speeches (extracts) and documents from the World Congress of Women, Copenhagen June 5-10, 1953. Published by the Women’s International Democratic Federation. 10th Anniversary of the Women’s International Democratic Federation. Commemorative booklet. Published by the Women’s International Democratic Federation. 1955. 1945-1965: Women’s International Democratic Federation. 20th anniversary commemorative booklet. Published by the Women’s International Democratic Federation. 1965. Meeting of the Permanent International Committee of Mothers. Newsletter 1955. Published by the World Congress of Mothers. For Their Rights as Mothers, Workers, Citizens. Summary of women’s status in countries around the world. Issued and published by the Women’s International Democratic Federation. 1950s. Equality Will be Won. Booklet by Kath Williams, Australian observer to International Conference of Women Workers. Coronation Press. 1956. Eugenie Cotton: Founding Member and President of the Women’s International Democratic Federation, December 1945 – June 1967, Founding and Presidium Member of the World Peace Council, Honorary Headmistress of the Sevres Teachers Training College. Published by the Women’s International Democratic Federation. World Congress of Mothers: Documents. Lausanne, July 7th to 10th, 1955. Published by the World Congress of Mothers. Women Workers from 44 Countries…First World Conference of Women Workers. Budapest, June 14-17, 1956. Published by W.F.T.U Publications: Chichester, London. March 8 International Women’s Day. Women’s International Democratic Federation: Documents and Information, No. 8, 1968. Published by the WIDF Secretariat. The Role of Women in the Economic and Social Development of Their Countries. Women’s International Democratic Federation: Documents and Information, No. 12, 1968. Published by the WIDF Secretariat. Seminars in Latin America: 1st Part: Mexico, 22-25 July 1968. Women’s International Democratic Federation: Documents and Information, No. 1, 1969. Published by the WIDF Secretariat. Bureau Meeting: Women’s International Democratic Federation: Berlin, 21-25 March 1969. Women’s International Democratic Federation: Documents and Information, No. 3, 1969. Published by the WIDF Secretariat. Women of the Whole World. Journal of the Women’s International Democratic Federation. Published by the Women’s International Democratic Federation. Issues from 1953 – 1976 (incomplete). The Women of the World Should Know…Supplement to “Women of the Whole World” No.2, 1974. Published by the Women’s International Democratic Federation

Box 15 Folder: Social Justice issues and Protest Action material. Includes material on women, Queensland civil liberties and protest at the policies of the Fraser government.

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Folder: Disarmament and Peace Material. Australian Conservation Foundation material. Citizens for Democracy material. ‘Sally Round the Flag. The Great Canadian Flag debate of 1964’. China Broadcasting Folk Music Troupe booklet. Chinese language booklet re archeological dig. Folder: Assorted Socialist/Communist material. Includes fliers, newspaper clippings, information sheets and circa1950s CPA election campaign comic strip entitled ‘The Calamitous Career of Dictator Bob’. Folder: Statement recording the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples first national meeting, Eva Valley, Northern Territory, 3 – 5 August 1993. Seminar on Aboriginal Rights, Willard house, Brisbane, 13 July 1968. Miscellaneous publications, correspondence and statements re Aboriginal rights Including booklet on Land Rights and Tribune Special Document, ‘Full Rights for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders’. Folder: Information sheets and newspaper clippings on East Timer. Folder: Campaign Against Nuclear Proliferation. Includes fliers, information sheets, protest information, newspaper and other journal clippings re protest at uranium mining and nuclear proliferation and United States military bases such as Pine Gap. Folder: Miscellaneous journals, newspapers and newsletters protesting uranium mining and nuclear proliferation. Folder: One copy of Outline of the Post-War History of the Communist Party of Australia, 1945-65 by E.A Bacon accompanied by notes for further writings on the history of the CPA on its 60th anniversary Folder: Papers, letters and publications referring to the South East Queensland Electricity Board Dispute, Queensland, 1985 Folder re Hughie Hamilton – newspaper clipping Recollections of Queensland Branch of the Communist Party of Australia, 1920s and 1930s by Ron Brown Folder: photocopied letters and reports pertaining to the capture and arrest of the Kelly Gang at Glenrowan in Victoria, 1880 Invitation to hear ‘Mary’ speak of life in Uganda. Extensive and written notes on back of form, 1982 Folder: Socialist Study Circle. Includes publications, newspaper clippings, articles, forum programs, study notes, correspondence, address book Folder: Socialist Study Circle: Includes publications, newspaper clippings, articles, forum programs, study notes and correspondence Tribune, Special Supplement, ‘The CIA and Australian Trade Unions, 11 May 1977

Box 16 Invitation from Central Committee, Australian Communist Party to the opening of the new Party Headquarters, Sydney, 1944 Rules and Constitution of the Communist Party of Australia, 17th Congress, May 1955 ‘Bill of Rights. A Proposal by the Communist Party of Australia’. Satirical flier on ‘excessive Absence’ from ones workplace ‘How to Solve Brisbane’s Transport Crisis’, (A Communist Publication, 1964) ______

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Tribune newspaper advertisement, (Sydney, 1971) May Day in Queensland 1891 to 1979, Forest Lodge NSW, Australian Radical Publications, 1979) Impact, no. 27, (May 1980), no. 33, (August 1982) Intercom, (June 1984), (May 1988), (July 1988), [two copies], (November 1988), (October 1989) Tribune, 6 February 1991 ‘Australia Up-rooted’ ‘Statement of Accord by the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Council of Trade Unions regarding Economic Policy’ February 1983 Proposed Community Cultural Centre, Musgrave Park, South Brisbane ‘Why the Govt’s Secrecy?’ (A Communist Publication, 8/7/64 The Challenge of Children’s Year 1979: The “Me Generation”, Consumerism and Age-ism. By Ruth and Maurie Crow. Research Paper. Newspaper clippings regarding The Year of the Child from The Melbourne Times (November 8 1878), and Learning Exchange (Issue 72, December 1978). Folder: Working Women’s Centre Discussion Papers. No. 17 (May 1977), No. 19 (July 1977), Nos 25-29 (February 1978 – June 1978), No. 32 (September 1978) Folder: Stapled book extracts and newspaper clippings (1982) regarding women and the economy; Aims and Objectives of the Brisbane Women’s Health Centre (typed information sheet); Letter (27 September 1983) from the Brisbane Women’s Health Centre; Article entitled Feminism and the Left by Bev Brown Women and Labour: Conference Papers. May 1978. Folder containing loose papers. Material relating to the Women and Labour Conference including: Bulletins (Nos.1 – 11, April 1977- February 1982), Directory of Women’s Work (1st Issue); Correspondence (incoming and outgoing) from 23/6/77 – 29/05/80; minutes of the Victorian Planning Meeting for the Women and Labour Conference (6 August 1977); Flyers advertising the Women and Labour Conference 17-19 May 1980. Family Court of Australia brochures Here’s Facts on Rape…Publication by The Rape Crisis Centre, West End, Brisbane. Women’s Liberation Newsletter. September 1970, Sydney. Women’s Health Resource Book. Produced by the Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre. Pro-abortion material (information sheets, articles, promotion for rallies). Sixty Years of Struggles for Scientific Socialism in Australia 1920-1980. Socialist Party of Australia Commemoration Booklet. 1980. Where We Stand: Strategy and Resolutions of the New American Movement. Third Edition Revised 1978. Published by the New American Movement: Chicago. Notes on the New Left in Australia. By Rowan Cahill. An Australian Marxist Research Foundation Publication. 1969. The Choice Before Us. Research paper regarding workingwomen.

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Women’s’ Liberation in Labour History: A Case Study From Nottingham. By Jo O’Brien. Spokesman Pamphlet No. 24. Published by The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation: Nottingham. Childcare: Good for Kids and Parents Too (brochure). Published by The New South Wales Women’s Advisory Council: Sydney. 1983. Draft Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. Published by the Union of Australian Women: Adelaide. Women’s Creative Centre. Newsletter, June 1989

Communist Party of Australia Publications Communist Party of Australia Election campaign brochure. Oil! Greasing the Multi-National Palm. By Eric Aarons. Communist Party of Australia. Published by Red Pen Publications: Sydney. 1976. Wanted: A New Style of Living for Modern Women. Communist Party of Australia. Printed by D.B. Young Pty. Ltd.: Sydney. The Communist Party’s View: The Labor Government and the Future (booklet). Published by Red Pen Publications Pty. Ltd. Charter of Democratic Rights (booklet). Communist Party of Australia. Published by D.B. Young, Sydney. The Environment Crisis – Can Capitalism Solve It? (booklet). By Maurie Crow. Communist Party of Australia Publication. Capitalism and the Economy in 1972 (booklet). By Bernie Taft. A Communist publication Australia’s Shipping Industry – A Critique of the Crawford Report and some proposals for the Labour movement. CPA Seafarer’s Branch, January 1983. Published by Red Pen Publications.

Box 17 Item 1 Blue Floral Travel Diary

Folder 1 Four travel brochures/booklets of Mexican and Californian towns/cities Six postcards of Mexican and United States scenes

Folder 2 Contains correspondence and articles on issues of social justice for women contained in newspaper clippings, government publications, International Women’s Day flyers, conference papers and hand written notes

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Folder 3 Additional material re Eva Bacon’s attendance at the two major international conferences held in Mexico City, Mexico to mark International Women’s Year, 19 June to 2 July 1975. Papers include letters of congratulations to Eva Bacon. Handwritten notes by Eva Bacon, newspaper clippings and travel documents

Folder 4 Peace and Disarmament papers. Includes newspaper clippings and letters Eva Bacon

Folder 5 Superannuation newspaper clippings and paper ‘Superannuation and Women. Issues of Access and Equity’. A Report by the NSW Women’s Advisory Board

Folder 6 Communist Party of Australia, Women’s Collective papers and newspaper clippings

Folder 7 Letter from Ursula S. Southwell to the Editor, the Australian, 24 July 1993. ‘Activists Reunion. Another Bolt From the Blue’, June 1992. Oral History Project meeting re plan to record the Communist Party’s major struggles, themes, events through the recollections of CPA members

Folder 8 Pamphlet of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Oct 1962 Card (USSR issue with Russian writing, bearing Eva Bacon’s name in Rusian and # 0247) Autograph Book, with inscriptions and names in various languages, 1952 IWD 1967- Blue cookbook bound with red ribbon Postcard- Berlin, Werner Seelenbinder Halle

Folder 9 18 postcards in envelope, some from Austria and the Soviet Union 1 compact disc with ‘Photos of Eva - Spare’ Newspaper cuttings and printouts about Eva Bacon. Printouts of articles on the history of International Women’s Day,

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Album 1

Photographs

Item no. Description

1 Unidentified March

2 May Day, Brisbane, 1976

3 – 14 Timor Demonstration, Brisbane

15 Peace Rally, Brisbane City Square, Sen. George Georges

16 Anti Uranium Demo & March, Oct 22, 1977 [Brisbane]. 418 Arrests

March and Picketing of Indonesian [Consulate] Office, Brisbane re East Timor – 17 – 26 10 photographs

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Land Rights March, Commonwealth Games, 27 – 53 Brisbane, 1982 – 27 photographs

54 – 63 Beijing [Peking], China, circa 1950s

63a Tractor as made in China

Archbishop Pi Su-shih with other bishops and priests and congregation of 64 Nanhan Catholic Church, Harbin, China, 1959

65 Interior photograph: Father Ko before the altar of the Nanhan Catholic Church

66 Hong Kong, 23 April 1960. Families living on the top of houses.

67 – 74 Australia – Vietnam Friendship Society

75 – 85, 85a, 85b Bombed Communist Party Of Australia Offices, Brisbane, April 1972

[Springbok Tour] Football Queensland Style. Picture at Brisbane Exhibition 86 Ground where game took place. [1971]

Springbok Tour, Tower Mill Motel, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, 1971 – [Police 87 outside Tower Mill Motel face demonstrators atop Wickham Park]

[Springbok Tour] The big push by police of people into the [Wickham]Park, 88 [Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, 1971]

89 – 102 Picket on the “ACT 4” at Hamilton [Wharves] No. 2. `

Final S.U.A. picket on Utah Offices in Brisbane and subsequent celebration in 103 – 117 W.W.F. Club, 29/9/81

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Protest March to Australian Government Centre against Education Funding Cuts, 118 – 128 Brisbane, 20/5/81

Student Rally against Education Funding Cuts, King George Square, Brisbane, 129 – 149 20/5/81

Various photographs showing massed students both outside and inside 150 – 158 Australian Government Centre, Brisbane, 20/5/81

159 – 172 Unidentified march [May Day?], Brisbane. Negatives Included

Pensioners Demonstrations at Queensland Parliamentary Building & Outside 173 – 190 Queensland Club, Brisbane [nd]

Draft Resisters, Court House. [Male and female posing in foreground with a copy 191 of Downdraft: A Draft Resistance manual].

Draft Resisters, Court House. [Five males pose outside Court House, some with 192 raised fist salute]

193 – 198 [Orientation Day? University of Queensland. Centre Table, Left Wing Material]

199 Sept 8th 1963. [Falcon with two occupants – QLD Special Branch?]

200 Arthur Calwell. [Australian Labor Party leader 1960-1967]

201 Group portrait. Unidentified – two copies

202 Unidentified group portrait

Group Aboard Ship – Hamilton. From left: Ken Armitage, “Kobe’, Lee 203 Birmingham, Maria Linklotter on bridge of “Aust. Escort”, Oct 1980

204 Group Aboard Ship – Hamilton [same people as above]

205 – 206 Picket At B.W.W.D. Hamilton, 1AM 1/10/80

Centenary Place, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. Public Speakers Forum, large mixed 207 – 216 crowd, circa early 1960s

217 Unidentified protest and arrest, Brisbane, circa 1960s

218 Unidentified protest march, Brisbane

219 Unidentified confrontation between police and protestors, Brisbane

220, 220A – 220D Material illustrating means for electronic spying

220E Eureka Youth League [identified by Marianne Ehrhart]

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Item no. Description

220F – Centenary Place, Brisbane, 5 August 1962. Anti-Communist, Anti Campaign for 220G Nuclear Disarmament by Queensland Labor Party (QLP)

220H – 220L Eureka Youth League – Deputation to Canberra [identified by Marianne Ehrhart]

221 Jimmy Stevens (Olympian) and member of Eureka Youth League

222a – ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’. Photographs of Communist Party 222i Television Election Advertisement. Speakers E.A Bacon and W.E Bowden

223 – 234 Anti Nuclear Demonstration, Hamilton Wharves (?) Negatives Included.

235 – 236 Australian Workers Union meeting and building with SCABS painted on wall

237 – 243 Unidentified Protest March, Brisbane: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights

244 – 249 Unidentified March [May Day?] Brisbane

250 – 253 Brisbane New Theatre Company Production of “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller

Hiroshima day, Peace Cavalcade to Canberra, Departure from New Farm Park, 254 Brisbane, 11 August 1962

255 – Peace March, Brisbane, Hiroshima Day, 5 August 1962 257, 257A

258 – 259 Hiroshima Day Peace March & Rally, Centenary Place, 5 August 1962

Album 2

Photographs Item no. Description

260 Humphrey McQueen Speaking at Peace Festival, QLD University, 27/2/71

261 Draft Resisters Union Stand, Queensland University, 27/2/71

262 Unidentified Photographer At Protest March, Brisbane, (1970s)

263 – University of Queensland Student Protest Meeting Student Union Area 266, 266A

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Miscellaneous Unidentified Photographs. Include ‘Defy the Draft’ Protest March; 267 – 285 Bill Hayden Addressing Crowd At Roma Street and Images of Senator George Georges

286 Ted Bacon, Eva Bacon’s husband

287 Col Willis, Rockhampton, September 1980

288 Three men in field: Hugh Hamilton (left), unknown, Warren Bowden (right)

289 Alma Willis, Rockhampton, September 1980

290 “Aust. Escort”, October 1980

291 B. W. W. D. Hamilton, October 1980

292 “Aust Escort” at Hamilton, October 1980

293 “Aust. Escort”, October 1980

293a Picket on “Aust Escort” Oct. 1980

294 Picket at B. W. W. D. Hamilton, October 1980

Unidentified North Vietnamese male addressing a gathering, possibly a University 295 – 299 of Queensland Union venue

300 Charlie Gifford

301 – 302 Jean Leary

303 – 307 Unidentified group portraits (Ted Bacon in some)

308 Unidentified male (Frank Bishop?)

309 Unidentified steam locomotive

310 Unidentified male (Max Julius?)

311 “Sandy Won The Soldiers Hack”, Sports Exhibition

312 – 313 Unidentified speakers at an Australia-Vietnam Friendship Lecture/Seminar

314 – 317 Unidentified protest march. Communist Party of Australia Banner at head

318 – 325 Unidentified Photographs of Protest Marches and Police Arrests

326 ‘Anti-Uranium Demo & March, 22 October 1977. 418 Arrests’.

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Item no. Description

327 – 328, Assorted images of protest: ‘Right To March’ etc. and police response 328A, 329 – 366

367 – 370 Unidentified Protest Rally and Police Response, Brisbane, 1978

371 ‘C.D. Dec. 7th 1978. Police Waiting for Wharfies in Ann Street’.

372 Unidentified Policeman Standing Amongst Bushes and Banana Palm

373 – 374 Unidentified [Union?] Meeting

375 Three Unidentified Men Seated At Bench

376 Tax revolt Office, Blackwater [QLD], 8/9/80

From left: Lee Birmingham, Max Tanzer and John Moulds at Baulkhams’ Hotel, 377 Blackwater, 8/9/80

From left: Lee Birmingham, Max Tanzer and John Moulds at Baulkhams’ Hotel, 378 Blackwater, 8/9/80

379 Mass meeting which voted to end tax revolt strike at Blackwater, Sept 8, 1980

380 John and Linda Moulds (& Daughter), Blackwater, 8/9/80

381 Members of Women’s Auxiliary, Blackwater, 8/9/80

382 Women’s Auxiliary Members, Blackwater with Maria Linklatter, 8/9/80

383 Members of Women’s Auxiliary, Blackwater with Maria Linklatter, 8/9/80

384 QLD Miners Tax Strike, Food Barn, Blackwater, 8/9/80

385 – Proof Sheets of Evening Social(s) 388, 388A

389 – 405 Unidentified Social Gathering

406 Mine in Central Queensland Where Workers Were Killed, 1982

407 – 408 Unidentified Group Portrait of Women

409 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

410 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

411 Unidentified Family Group Portrait

412 – 414 B.W.W.D Terminal, Hamilton, October 1980

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Item no. Description

Brian Laver, University of Queensland radical student leader handing out anti- 415 President Ky of South Vietnam material, 1967

416 Rally against Ky’s visit [1967?]

Unidentified workers, Brisbane. Partly obscured placard suggests an anti- 417 President Ky Protest, 1967

418 Centenary Place, Brisbane, 5 August 1962

Fred Paterson, Cabaret & Launch of ‘Under Investigation: The Business Empire 419 – 420 of Joh Bjelke Petersen’ (CPA, 1976), 30 Nov 1976

421 Anti-conscription rally, Brisbane, 1960s

422 Unidentified protest rally, Brisbane, 1960s

Arthur Clark with unidentified man, taken at Acme Studio, Waverley Road, Camp 423 Hill

Photograph of closed shop sign at place of employment: “This is a union job. All 424 Employees on this job must be financial with their Union.”

425 May Day March 1976, featuring feminist contingent

426 Anti-conscription rally, Brisbane, 1960s

427 Guardian Fair 1963, Protestant Hall, Merton Road, Woolongabba

428 – 429 Unidentified asian individuals

430 Unidentified group meeting [in church?]

Album 3 Photographs

Description

Photographs of Australian delegation to conference in Vienna, Austria Part of Australian delegation in Melbourne Australian delegation in Vienna Woods Exhibition visited by D.F.D delegates (#68) Three men at opening of congress, D.F.D (? names) (#58) Presidium (?) showing some presents (#59) ______

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Photo of hall, backing banner with “D.F.D iv Bundeskongress 195 (#62) French and Belgian delegates presenting a bust of Danielle Casanova (#63) Czech delegation (#67) Members of D.F.D at voluntary cleaning shift in Berlin (#71) International helpers volunteer at cleaning shift in Berlin (#72) Women of the D.F.D on way to protest demonstration (#73) Protest demonstration of 540,000 people against ??? agreement (#74) Flute concert for the Kindergarten Australian delegation on way to Vienna Conf in Bombay

Photographs from the visit of the Australian delegation to the USSR April-May, 1952

Moscow Australian delegates on Red Square. The Australian delegation on the Sofiyskaya embankment of Moscow River. Mrs Monica Felton. Laureate of the International Stalin Peace Prize, among delegates. Members of the delegation are approaching guest's seats on Red Square on May 1st. Members of the delegation on Red Square during the May Day demonstration of the working people. Delegates in the Armory Chamber of the Kremlin. Delegates in the Armory Chamber of the Kremlin.

Leningrad Delegates on Dvorzovaya Square. Delegates on the embankment of the Neva-river. Delegates near the cruiser “Avrora”. Delegates in the A. A.Zhdanov Palace of Young Pioneers among the young amateur actors of the puppet theatre. Members of the delegation are talking with guests of the rest home “Mother and Child”.

Georgian SSR The delegation being welcomed at the airfield in Tbilisi. Delegates before the offices of the management of the Stalin Kolkhoz, Kobuleti district, in the Georgian SSR.

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Delegates in the home of a collective farmer, D.Dzhidzha,at the Stalin Kolkhoz in Kobuleti district, Georgia. Delegates on the grounds of the Tbilisi Spinning and Knitting Mills. Delegates talking to vacationers at the sanatorium in Kobuleti, Georgia.

Stalino Delegates in the kindergarten of the Stalinugol Coal Combinat, Stalino.

Photograph from the visit of the delegations of the Chinese People’s Republic, the Korean People’s Democratic Republic, the Mongolian People’s Republic, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Japan, Burma, Canada, the United States and Australia to the USSR, April- May, 1952, Moscow. The delegates at a reception at the Hotel Metropole, during the concert.

Eva Bacon’s 80th Birthday Celebrations, CPA Function, 1 Oct 1989 (contains 26 photographs, all identified)

Photographs of Eva Bacon’s family in Germany 6 b&w photographs of Eva Bacon’s family [previously housed in A5 envelope]

Photographs [from Connie Healy] of the Bacon’s 26 photographs including photographs of Eva as a toddler, Ted and Eva on their honeymoon in 1944, their house in Enoggera, 1939 to 1993

Photographs for an article [on Eva Bacon?] 8 photographs, 1936 to 1946, undated

Parcel 1 Photographs: Given to Pam Young by Clarrie Beckingham (Dorothy Lane’s husband) when she was researching Proud to be a Rebel. Beckingham did not know who the people were

Ladies who assisted at the Labor Voters’ Information Bureau in Adelaide Street at Greater Brisbane Municipal Elections on 18-2-1928 Group photo (Vice-Regal Studios) Freedom Without Dishonour- Unionist Prisoners sentenced at Rockhampton, Qld, May 1891, for causes arising out of Bush Strike, released Nov 93, photo copyright 12/12/[1893] (group photograph with identifications) Oval portrait of a woman (Murray Studio) ______

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Faded portrait of a woman Portrait of man and woman (Vice-Regal Photographs) Portrait of woman (full view, seated) (H. Taylor Browning) Portrait of woman

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