STANNAGE, TOM (CHARLES THOMAS), 1944-2012

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STANNAGE, TOM (CHARLES THOMAS), 1944-2012

“Seeking Wisdom: Truth, Beauty, and the Future of Community Democracy” Title of a paper, the last written by Tom Stannage. ACC 9784A/box 45.10

Tom Stannage was born in Subiaco, Western Australia, in March 1944. His mother, Helen Eakins-Stannage, née Masters, was originally from Northam and his father, the Rev. James Eakins-Stannage was an Anglican cleric born in the UK, his older sister, Miriam Stannage (1939–2016), was a prominent artist. Stannage grew up in the Perth suburbs of Subiaco and Bassendean and attended Midland Junction High School and Perth Modern School, before studying history at the University of Western Australia (UWA). He married fellow UWA student Maria Fillanich. They lived in England from 1967 as Stannage completed a doctorate at Cambridge University. Stannage returned to Perth in 1971 to take up a position lecturing in history at UWA and was later appointed Professor of History there. During the early 1960s, Stannage played Australian rules football in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL and was a member of the West Australian Football League (WAFL) board of directors in 1986.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stannage

Qualifications MA University of Western Australia Ph.D University of Cambridge Academic positions Emeritus Professor, Curtin University of Technology; Professor of Public History, Curtin University of Technology (2006 - 2008); Professor and Executive Dean, Division of Humanities, Curtin University of Technology (1999 – 2006); Professor, Department of History, University of Western Australia (to August 1999); formerly Research Fellow (1978-79) and Visiting Fellow (1993) Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University; and Visiting Research Fellow, History Department, School of General Studies, ANU, 1999.

For fuller details of his academic, research and public career, see: ACC 9784A/box 1.5: curriculum vitae – in brief, July 2012. 7p

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stannage

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MN ACC meterage / boxes Date donated CIU file Notes

2847 8101A 12 cm. 1 box February 1988 BA/PA/11/0159 Research material for the publication, 'A New History of Western Australia' 1970s-1982

9784A 10 metres (approx.) 54 boxes

December 2017 Mainly academic research notes and papers; research for publications, public posts, speeches to community and business groups. Date range: c1966-2012

SUMMARY OF CLASSES

PERSONAL PAPERS FOOTBALL URBAN HISTORY PEOPLE OF PERTH (PUBLICATION) LOCAL HISTORY SUBIACO, 1971-1977 SUBIACO COUNCIL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AMALGAMATION ISSUES, 2011-2012 THOMAS WARDLE (TOM THE CHEAP)

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX (WABI) A NEW HISTORY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (PUBLICATION) BICENTENNIAL PROJECT, 1977-1987 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA (NMA) JOONDALUP (MANUSCRIPT) STATE TASK FORCE FOR MUSEUMS POLICY. WESTERN AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN HISTORY COUNCIL CHRONOLIGICAL LISTS, 1960S-20012 RESEARCH PAPERS - MISCELLANEOUS


REQUEST USING THIS NUMBER

DATE RANGE DESCRIPTION

ACC 9784A/box 1 1966-2012 PERSONAL 1. File: Details of published works, 1966-1981. 2 p – (1989, updated 1991?). One page, photocopy – After

1988? Page 2, then pp6-9 (all stapled as one document), photocopy – October 2002. Seven pages, photocopy – July 2012. Seven pages – Curtin University “Ripples newsletter”, profile of CTS pp2-3

2. Application for professorship, granted 1998. Includes correspondence, supporting documentation, congratulatory letters and cards, newspaper and journal articles

3. 1997. Application for position, “Executive Director of Community Relations (Fractional) Vice-Chancellory, UWA

4. Request from Department Communication and the Arts, Canberra, that CTS update his curriculum vitae, 1997

5. Curriculum Vitae – in brief, July 2012. 7p. 6. File: “Nice letters”. Letters and cards expressing appreciation to CTS. 2000-2002 7. File: “nice letters”. Letters and cards expressing appreciation to CTS. Includes messages of support, as

CTS starts study leave and his position as Executive Dean at Curtin ends in March 2006. 2003-2006. 8. The Masters family (CTS maternal ancestors), booklet, produced 1980

ACC 9784A/box 2 1960s-1990s CTS FOOTBALL 1. Open letter to members of the Swan Districts Football Club, published in the Sunday Times, 29

November 1981. Two copies of the published letter and two typescripts, one edited 2. WA Football Advisory Boards. Agendas, minutes, annotated by CTS, 1984 3. Agendas, minutes for meeting of league coaches, annotated by CTS – football affairs, committees,

annotated – team management, match committee, 1984-1987 4. Correspondence, 1984-1997 5. Memos, reports, papers, topics raised, possibility of a second WA AFL team, 1980s-1990s 6. File: CTS entry about Aboriginal football players, for “The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and

Culture”, 1999 7. Hand-written, rough notes, “footballer views the critics”, television, radio, the Press, “Talk: sport and


Christianity”, “The side of football Press, television and radio don’t tell”. 8. Newspaper articles, 1966; 1981; 1984-1986

ACC 9784A/box 3 URBAN HISTORY 1. Introduction, Graeme Davison to talk on Modernising Melbourne 1945 – 1970. 2. Notes on Davison

lecture. – 3. History Honours Seminar; ‘Graeme Davison & Urban History’ – 4. Article by CTS – ‘A Radical Dimension’, also G Davison ‘People, Places & Spaces’

2. Lecture notes & teaching materials ‘Cities of Destiny 1995’. – 2. Explaining the urban past. 3. Imaging the Great Cities. – 4. The Sounds of the City. – 5. Notes, articles re Gender & the City (Philippa’s lecture?)

3. Address to John Curtin Speech Night Oct? 1987 4. Canberra lecture 1999 – Environmental History – ‘The Land and its Music’ 5. Lecture notes – education 6. Lectures (2) Art & the City (notes) March 1995 7. David Day book launch, John Curtin Centre 27 October 1999 8. 2000+ Symposium ‘Office of Citizenship & Multicultural Interests’ Oct 1999 9. ‘Western Australia’s Heritage: The Pioneer Myth’ 1985 10. Belonging Conference Nov 1999. Various papers. John Docker ‘Autobiographies’, Rod Lacey ‘Shared

Histories’ (refers to CTS ‘wonderful’ ‘From the Severn to the Swan’ – but no notes or paper included 11. Reconciliation speech 2000 12. Peter Read ‘Joy & Forgiveness in a Haunted Land’ & CTS notes, inc comments re happiness in Australia 13. Centenary of Federation Forum, Adelaide, CTS paper (notes) included ‘Australia: It’s What We Make It’

1999 14. Anglicare Conference April 2000 ‘Reflections on Building Communities of Hope’. CTS delivering the

‘closing reflections’ 15. Urban white collar workers, 1984 16. Urban and local history publications, articles, papers 17. Urban and local history public talks, mainly hand-written notes

ACC 9784A/box 4 URBAN HISTORY 1. Curriculum documents, 1972-1983 2. Urban society and politics. Lecture notes, 1970s-1980s


3. Urban wilderness. Lecture notes, 1981-1982 4. File: “Urban history lectures, 1999. Mainly “Cities of Destiny” 5. Cities of destiny. Lecture notes, 1991 6. Examination papers 7. Bibliographies 8. Miscellaneous notes

ACC 9784A/box 5 1992-1996 NEW NORCIA 1. Minutes of meetings of the Archives, Research and Publications Committee, February 1994-September

1997 2. New Norcia Foundation. Sundry papers including correspondence with Javier Moll, Fr. Placid, Wendy

Pearce re Spanish trip, mainly 1994 3. Application for grant, by CTS and Br. Placid Spearritt, for New Norcia public education project 1994-

1995 4. ‘New Norcia in History’. Speech, hand-written (draft). 37p. + published article “New Norcia in History:

changing the frame”. In the publication: “A town like no other: the living tradition of New Norcia, pp.99-101 (copy enclosed)

5. Loose documents, mainly relating to the Research, Publishing and Archive Committee, 1991-1995 6. New Norcia Studies Day, 1992 (certificate of attendance at the inaugural studies day only); 1994, 1995,

1997 7. Letter from artist, Mary Moore, with six photographic copies of portraits of monks from New Norcia,

1997 8. File: Abbott Placid Spearitt Memorial Scholarship, address by CTS, 28 April 2009 – Launch of the

Studies journal, speech by CTS, 10 November 2011

ACC 9784A/box 6 “PEOPLE OF PERTH” (publication) WRITING THE HISTORY OF PERTH, 1972-1976 1. Draft, photocopied agreement between Perth City Council and CTS. Includes some hand-written notes

and figures 2. Correspondence, 1971- 3. Letters of introduction from Ernest Lee-Steere, Lord Mayor of Perth and G.O. Edwards, Town Clerk,

City of Perth, 2 October 1973


4. Book galleys

ACC 9784A/box 7 “PEOPLE OF PERTH”𝐴 = 𝜋𝑟2 (publication) WRITING THE HISTORY OF PERTH, 1972-1976 1. Research notes and captions for photographs, locations of photographs for possible use (no

photographs included) 2. Research notes from ANZ Archive, Melbourne 3. Research notes for Supreme Court 19th century criminal files 4. Draft manuscript chapters, hand-written, typescript, annotated (6 folders)

ACC 9784A/box 8 1974-1975 LOCAL HISTORY 1. Local history seminar at Subiaco, 29 August 1974. Correspondence concerned with funding and

organisation of the seminar, requests for information about the seminar and bookings and book purchases. May 1974-May 1975

2. Draft opening address, for seminar at Subiaco. hand-written, 3p. 3. Publication, seminar papers: “Local history in Western Australia”. Includes correspondence, receipts

for sales, October 1974-September 1976. 4. File, miscellaneous documents: Oral history in Western Australia, paper by CTS – Western Australian

history 1964-1974: retrospect and prospect, August 1974, paper by CTS, photocopy – Circulars re seminar at Subiaco – Register of local historians, October 1974 – List of country branch contacts for the Royal Western Australian Historical Society` - rough notes on paper scraps – catering invoices

5. Local history in Western Australia: a guide to research”. Edited manuscripts of papers read at the local history seminar, held at Subiaco, 29 August 1974: Bolton – Appleyard – Bate – Statham – Erickson – Thomas – Print – Greaves – Stannage – Preliminary pages.

ACC 9784A/box 9 1971-1997 SUBIACO, 1971-1977 1. Subiaco Historical Society, 1971-1978 2. Subiaco Council. Town planning, 1973-1997 3. Subiaco mayoral elections, 1975-1981 4. Subiaco Consultative Committee on Town Planning, 1976-1977

ACC 9784A/box 10 2011-2012 SUBIACO COUNCIL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AMALGAMATION ISSUES, 2011-2012 1. File, 2011-2012. Various documents, including the agenda for a meeting of the Subiaco Coordinating

Committee, 22nd August 2011 – Correspondence, including with Mayor Heather Henderson and MLA Bill Marmion – draft? flyers and notices - many rough, hand-written notes – two exercise books with


rough, hand-written notes (many pages blank in both books) 2. Paper, “Neither necessary nor desirable”. A Subiaco resident’s response to the Cities of Nedlands and

Subiaco Draft Merger Feasibility Study, May 2011, prepared with the assistance of KPMG”. Final + four drafts, + notes

3. File: July 2011. City of Subiaco Planning For More People Community Conference. Agenda and brochures. Scant, rough notes, CTS handwriting

4. 27 July 2011. Local Government and Community: Open letter for Colin Barnett, by CTS 5. 10 November 2011. Public submission in response to the issues paper released by the Metropolitan

Local Government Review Panel. Typescript, 25p. (large print) by CTS 6. File: Various documents, including: Paper, “Structural reform in Australian Local Government: the

Armidale-Dumaresq-Guyra-Uralla-Walcha strategic alliance model”, by Dollery, Burns and Johnson. The paper has hand-written notes and highlighted text by CTS – Document: “Proposal to amalgamate the Shires of Westonia and Yilgarn”, by Local Government Advisory Board, 4p. Hand-written comments by CTS – Brochure, “Merger feasibility study results, City of Nedlands and City of Subiaco. CTS hand-written comments throughout

ACC 9784A/box 11 1970s THOMAS WARDLE (TOM THE CHEAP) The papers are related to the biographical entry In “Westralian Portraits”, by CTS 1. Various drafts, (typescript), including one marked, ‘final copy 27 June 1978’) 2. Research notes 3. correspondence 4. Liquidator’s report, related correspondence and newspaper articles. 1977-1978

ACC 9784A/box 12 1970s WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX (WABI) 1. Minutes of meetings of the Tertiary Education Sub-Committee (CTS committee member), 1976-1978.

Includes some related correspondence 2. Drafts of biographical entries for the WAY ’79 series, with comments by CTS 3. Draft of publication, “Commemorative album. Western Australia, 1829-1979” 4. Miscellaneous, loose notes, letters, lists 5. File: Law and order 6. File: Crime


7. File: Poverty 8. File: Convicts 9. File: Interpreting convictism in Western Australia 10. File: Researcher, John Smith report to CTS on Supreme Court of WA research + CTS hand-written notes

ACC 8101A/ A NEW HISTORY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (publication) 1. Correspondence, 1978-1981 2. Notes on the plan and contributors of the publication, draft preliminary pages, chapter parts, notes on

contributors writings, captions for images, bibliographies 3. Galley proofs 4. The first settlers 5. Western Australia Reflects on it’s Past. G.C. Bolton, notes by CTS 6. Some aspects of crime and society. Draft typescript + heavily corrected copy

ACC 9784A/box 13 1970s- A NEW HISTORY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (publication) 1. Correspondence, 1970s 2. Correspondence with Sue Wellburn, 1978 3. Correspondence, 1980s 4. Letters to the Editor, 1981-1982 5. Editorial Committee file, 1970s 6. Financial papers, funding, release of funds, 1978-1979; Statement of royalties, January-June 1991 7. File of miscellaneous papers, including: planning, rationale, contributors, minutes of meetings,

financial records, reports, draft contributions, hand-written notes 8. Social mobility

ACC 9784A/box 14 1980s BICENTENNIAL PROJECT, 1977-1987 1. Studies in Western Australian History (UWA History Department publication). Issue to be produced,

titled: “Celebrations in Western Australian History”, 1987-1989 2. Western Australian Education Committee. Australian Bicentenary Celebrations, 1978-1985 3. 1938 Bicentennial Project. Correspondence, minutes of meetings, planning, 1981-1984 4. Australians 1888. Bicentennial publication project. Correspondence with Monash University, notes 5. Bicentenary. Mainly correspondence with Australian National University (ANU), Research School of

Social Sciences, 1977-1978


6. Tertiary Education Committee, mainly 1984 minutes 7. Literary and Historical Committee. Minutes of meetings, July-September 1983. Letter from the

Australian Bicentennial Authority to CTS, requesting his opinion on the proposal, July 1985 8. Miscellaneous documents: Correspondence, reports, committee matters, 1982-1987

ACC 9784A/box 15 1990-1992 NATIONAL MUSEUM of AUSTRALIA (NMA) 1. Correspondence, 1992 2. File: Background briefing. 1990 3. File: “Shaping a new museum”. Timetable for National Museum of Australia Council meeting no. 31,

dated Tuesday 14 August 1990; also includes minutes of meeting no. 31, dated 16 May 1990. Includes a copy of the annual report 1989/90

4. “A Vision for Australia”. Draft 6, 10 April 1991 5. History Working Group Seminar. Strategic Planning Seminar, 18 November 1991 + summary of a

transcript dated 18 November 1991 + note to CTS from ‘Ian’ 6. History Working Group Seminar. Transcript of meeting in Sydney on Wednesday, 22 January 1992.

Draft copy 7. “Rediscovering Australia”. Draft strategic plan, June 1992 8. “Understanding our country: the vital role of the National Museum of Australia”, August 1992? 9. Discussion paper: An Australian History Advisory Committee, 16 September 1992 10. CAMA Conference, Melbourne, November 1992. Includes a copy of the paper, “Toward a common

agenda” 11. Transcript of interview with CTS re Old Parliament House. Spiral bound pages, includes “Media

Monitors” clippings, December 1992

ACC 9784A/box 16 1993-2004 NATIONAL MUSEUM of AUSTRALIA (NMA) 1. Correspondence, 1993-1999 2. “Museums: an argument with their own society”. A two-day forum, June 16 and 17. CTS forum

participant, October 1993 3. Australian Cultural Development Office. Seminar on the Foundation for Australian Cultural

Development, October 1993 4. “Images of women” conference papers, March-November 1993. Includes CTS address of welcome


5. Corporate plan, 1993-1997, as approved by Council 15 October 1993 6. Confidential minutes to Council Members from Margaret Coaldrake, 22 October, 28 October, 11

November and 26 November 1993 7. Program for Creating Heritage partnerships Conference, 21-23 August, 1993. Draft only 8. Draft minutes of meeting no. 54, 31 May 1994 + agenda and program of meeting for 30 June 1994 9. Planning and Curatorial Committees for the “Gold” exhibition and publication, 1999 10. Environmental history in the National Museum, workshop, April 1999 11. Correspondence, 2000s 12. Opening of the National Museum of Australia, 11 March 2001. Invitation, program, souvenir

aluminium panelling piece (10 cm. square, approx.) 13. “Response to National Museum reviews”. Includes some related correspondence, 2003 14. “Towards a common agenda” (paper), with covering letter to Prof. John Carroll, NMA Review

Committee, April 2003 15. File of newspaper cuttings, 2003 16. Multicultural Australia and the National Museum of Australia, 13 February 2004. Round table

discussion. CTS participant

ACC 9784A/box 17 n.d. (1990s) JOONDALUP (manuscript) 1. “Lakeside City: the dreaming of Joondalup”. Manuscript, in 2 volumes. 2. “Lakeside City: the dreaming of Joondalup”. Manuscript, 1 volume, annotated, includes note to CTS

from “Ross” at Landcorp 3. “Holmes à Court City: the dreaming of Joondalup”. Manuscript, 1 volume. Annotated. Includes hand-

written speech notes, 2p. 4. File: Correspondence related to the commissioning and production of the publication, January 1992-19

April 1995. Includes “Draft history of Joondalup a comment”, 3p., heavily annotated, n.d. 5. File: Miscellaneous documents, including correspondence and hand-written notes, papers relating to

the publishing process and launch of the publication, c1994-1995

ACC 9784A/box 18 n.d. (1990s) JOONDALUP (manuscript) Joondalup manuscript pages, hand-written, parts numbered in ‘pads’ (writing pads?)’: 1. pp1-38; 2. pp39-134; 3. pp135-230; 4.pp231-320; 5. pp321-334; volume 2 begins at bottom of page 335; 6. pp367-417; 7.


pp418-511

ACC 9784A/box 19 1990s STATE TASK FORCE FOR MUSEUMS POLICY. WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1. File: “Museum precinct 1977 lecture”. Hand-written notes (photocopy); typescript lecture? Brochure,

“Your museum”, published by the Trustees of the WA Museum, 1976; 2 photographs of the vicinity, one with CTS

2. File: Letter congratulating CTS on being appointed a trustee of the WA Museum, 1984; letter of resignation as trustee, 1986; Unsolicited report on the WA Museum, 1 December 1986, written by CTS and addressed to the Chairman of Trustees, Geoff Kennedy

3. Museum Task Force Strategy for the Department of the Arts, April 1991?, briefing notes from Ernst & Young (hard-copy of an electronic presentation) + notes for the briefing

4. Minutes of meetings of the Task Force, May-August, 1991. Includes budgetary figures, n.d. – list of members of the Task force – list of travel expenses on behalf of the Task force (CTS)

5. File: mainly correspondence, includes some related reports and notes, April-December 1991 6. Responses to request for comments and submissions regarding proposed review of museums in WA.

1991. Includes a list of submissions received, April-December 1991 7. File: “New submissions – uncategorised”. Responses to the proposed review of museums in WA,

August-October 1991 8. File: Submissions, categorised by collection type: Art, Tourism, Nyoongar people, Folk heritage,

Museums Association of Australia, WA Branch – Local museums and specialist museums, July-September 1991

9. Non-submissions – Correspondence – Education, WA Museum, History Department, Human Studies, May-August 1991

ACC 9784A/box 20 1991-2005 STATE TASK FORCE FOR MUSEUMS POLICY WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1. Maritime and Fremantle, August-September 1991 2. Testimonials, July-August 1991 3. Summary of recommendations for the State Task Force for Museums Policy. Handwritten. n.d. 4. Redefined Terms of Reference, December 1991? 5. Proofed copy of “Into the twenty-first century: Recommendations of the Task Force for Museums

Policy, Western Australia” June 1992 – WA Museum organisational review, June 1992 – Comment on the WA Task Force on Museums by John Stanton, August 1992 – Comment by others on the


recommendations 6. Letter from Robert Edwards, Art Exhibitions Australia Ltd., re final draft of report on the

redevelopment of the WA Museum, 12 March 1994 7. Perth Site Redevelopment Committee, December 1996 8. File: “Future of the WA Museum, Where to next?”, August 2003- May 2005. Proposal for a new

museum for Perth. Includes correspondence, reports and minutes of the New Museum Steering Committee, May 2005

ACC 9784A/box 21 2001-2006 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY COUNCIL 1. File: National History Project. Primary curriculum materials. “Heritage”. Draft 1. Loose sheets, 104p. -

Secondary curriculum materials. “National identity, 1945-1965.” First draft. loose sheets 51 p. (2002?) 2. File: History Council of WA. 2001-2003. Minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, constitution,

seminar (file marked “1”) 3. File: WA History Project 2004. Ideas for projects, minutes of meetings, 2002-2004 (file marked “2”) 4. File: History – General. Correspondence and related documents relating to projects. 2003-2004 (file

marked “3”) 5. File: National History Centre. Progress reports and final report on “The National seminar on teaching

Australian history in schools, hosted by the National Museum of Australia, Monday and Tuesday 4-5 June 2001”. Includes related correspondence (file marked “4”)

6. “The National Seminar on Teaching Australian History in Schools”, 2001. Appendices to final report, related correspondence, booklet, “So you want to study history”

7. File: Australian History Council Summit. Towards a model Australian history Curriculum for Schools. Correspondence and a copy of the “Guide to the teaching of Australian history in Years 9 and 10”, 2007

From this point onward, the listing is arranged chronologically

ACC 9784A/box 22 1960s CHRONOLIGICAL LIST, 1960s- 1. MA thesis, “Electoral politics in Western Australia: 1884-97”. Includes correspondence, research notes,

examiners reports, 1966-1967


2. Article. “John Forrest and the formation of the first ministry under responsible government in Western Australia” (Published in University Studies in History, vol. V, no. 2, 1968, pp.23-3). Includes handwritten

3. Article. “From responsible government to party politics in Western Australia, B.K. de Garis and C.T. Stannage. Australian Economic History Review. SUP, vol. V111, no. 1, 1968

4. File: (1960s?): History Department (UWA?), “Proposed course structure” – Leaving history: a student survey, conducted by the University History & Politics Club (UWA) – Set of guidelines for assessment of self-generated essays, hand-written

5. Article submitted to the Journal of Religious History, Macquarie University, entitled, “The Roman Catholic hierarchy and electoral politics in Western Australia 1880-1897”, concentrating on the Gibney-Salvado relationship.

ACC 9784A/box 23 1970s

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 1970s 1. File: Australian Dictionary of Biography. 1976-1982. CTS as contributor. Includes correspondence,

rough notes and CTS entries for Septimus, Octavius and Archibald Burt, William Bold, Thomas Molloy, Richard Haynes, John Horgan

2. Article: “The East Fulham by-elections, 25 October 1933, by C.T. Stannage, in The Historical Journal, xiv 1 (1971), pp165-200

3. File: “Convictism in Western Australia: an interpretative essay”, 1978. Includes drafts, notes, letter from Westdale Press, 1982, requesting a 1000-word article about convicts in Western Australia

4. Origins and histories of Perth Suburbs, compiled by staff of the Nomenclature Section of the Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth. Photocopy, 1975

5. Perth Cultural Centre, 1977 6. Establishment of a research fellowship in WA history 7. 1977. Excellence in University Teaching Award and National Teaching Forum, November 1977.

Includes: Guidelines and background to the award, program of events, – Anonymous questionnaires completed by students, selected at random, to provide students’ views on CTS as nominee for the award – Correspondence related to the award- Media clippings – Congratulatory cards and letters

8. Kaleidoscope, ABC, 24 September 1977. Review by CTS of “Kalumburu: the Benedictine Mission and the Aborigines, 1908-1975 (1977) by Father Eugene Perez”

9. Mastermind (Quiz, ABC Television program). CTS to provide questions in the area, “The history of


Western Australia, 1800-1850”, 1978. 10. Article by CTS, “Britain in the 1930s”, in: Teaching history: Modern Britain, 1973 11. Review by CTS of Geoffrey Bolton’s, “A fine country to starve in”, in: Teaching history: revolution and

counter-revolution, p.75, May 1974 12. File: Paul Hasluck, “Mucking about” review 13. Correspondence, 1970s, including:– To Weston Bates, October 1976 –– From Russell Elsegood, 12 May

1978 re photographic book, “Perth – 150 years”. Response from CTS, 24 May 1978 14. Correspondence: June 1975-May 1976. To and from CTS regarding the research conditions at the State

Library of Western Australia 15. Letter to Prof Bruce Stave re Canberra Fellowship, 1978 + transcript of interview, Bruce Stave

interviewing CTS, 1977 16. “Suggestions for the improvement of Honours assessment”, December 1971. Notes by CTS 17. Mainly a researcher’s reports to CTS on 19th century records at the Supreme Court of WA

ACC 9784A/box 24 1980-1986 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 1980s 1. Correspondence, general, 1980s 2. Review by George Seddon of CTS’s “The People of Perth” 7 July 1980 3. Correspondence with Oxford University Press (OUP), 1981 4. “A Radical Dimension”, article by CTS in Sydney Gazette, organ of the Sydney History Group, December

1982 5. File: Dr Ann Curthoys, 1982 6. File: Australian Research Grants Committee, 1980-1981. Project: “Crime and Society in Western

Australia, 1829-1911” 7. File: Department minutes (Department of History), 1982; Minutes of the Faculty Board, 1982. Includes

correspondence relating to the (Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission) CTEC grant 8. Conference paper, September 1982: “Just a suburban boy” 9. File: Geoffrey Blainey: Newspaper and journal clippings, lecture notes, CTS reviews of “A Land Half

Won”, c1984-1988 10. File: Centre for WA History, 1984-1990. Includes: CTS opening the exhibition. Opening address: “Some

aspects of modernism in Perth in the 1930s” – paper read to AJP Taylor’s seminar, Beaverbrook Library London, 1969, “Lloyd George and the politics of ‘agreement’ 1931-1935” – “Conservative


campaign guide 1935” (copy). 11. File: University of Western Australia (UWA) Press, minutes of meetings of the Board of Management,

1984 12. File: Schools history of Western Australia. Correspondence, planning, sponsors, 1984-1985 13. File: Western Australian Heritage Commission grant application, 1984-1986. Project: Australian War

Memorial survey 14. File: History project, 1985-1986: Lombardo’s Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour 15. File: Education Department, in-service course, senior masters of history. New syllabus for Australian

history

ACC 9784A/box 25 1987-1989 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 1980s 1. “Sins of Omission” published in “Forum: Journal of the History Teachers Association of South Australia”

(HTASA), December 1987, pp7-9. Includes letter from HTASA requesting permission to publish CTS’s Perth paper

2. File: History Teachers’ Conference, 1987 3. File: State Library of Western Australia. Functional Review Report. CTS notes and DJ Cross report, 1988 4. File: Supreme Court archived records, correspondence, notes, preservation report, 1988 5. File: Heads of History Departments. Conference, July 1989 6. File: Distinguished Teaching Award for UWA academic staff, 1988. CTS paper to Committee at Centre

for Tertiary Education Studies, stating his view about teaching 7. File: WA History Foundation. Planning objectives, funding, minutes of Trustees meetings, hand-written

notes, 1988; Correspondence with Ryebuck Media, Victoria re production of a video to accompany history/social studies resources, 1989

8. File: History of banking. Mainly hand-written notes and correspondence to banks regarding access to archives, 1989

ACC 9784A/box 26 1990 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 1990 1. Letter to CTS from Geoff Gallop, enclosing a copy of history of Carlisle and Lathlain, 1990 2. Letter to CTS from “B”, Paddington, NSW, hand-written, informal (fellow academician?) 3. History Conference 90. Brisbane, September 1990 4. “Wild card”, autobiography by Dorothy Hewett. Review by CTS, 1990


5. “The Gate of dreams”, by Ffion Murphy and Richard Nile. Review by CTS, 1990 6. Letter re CTS recommendation about writing a history for the Aquinas College Centennial, 21 February

1990 (photocopy) + response + final report prepared for Dr J Gregory on “Aquinas (college) History”, 12 November 1994

ACC 9784A/box 27 1991 1. File: Heritage value of the Emu Brewery buildings. CTS Chairperson, Heritage Council, 1991 2. File: Application for study leave to enabling writing a book, “A history of Australia”, 1991 3. Proposal for a university-funded special research centre and associated teaching programme.

Associate Professors Bruce Bennett and Tom Stannage, June 1991 4. Miscellaneous documents: Letter from James Cook University, re CTS as external examiner –

newspaper article by CTS, i) “Eight days that transformed the citizens of Perth”, includes a covering letter from Michael Duffy, The Independent Monthly, NSW – ii) Facsimile (fax) cover sheet from CTS to Mike van Niekerk, West Australian, including a short paper, (proposed newspaper article?) “Perth: an idea”. January 1991 – Centre for Western Australian History Conference programme, April 1991

5. Copy of the Heritage of Western Australia Act 1990, presented to CTS by the Minister for Heritage on the occasion of the inaugural meeting of the Heritage Council of WA, 19 April 1991.

ACC 9784A/box 28 1992-1993 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 1992-1993 1. File: Keith Howard. Correspondence with CTS regarding Howard’s MA thesis on military history, 1992-

1993 2. File: Committee for the recognition of first Australians, March 1992-December 1993. Includes

correspondence, reports, notes, newspaper cuttings, letter/history report (hand-written) to Catherine Crawford, Aboriginal Legal Service, accompanied by document, ‘History brief: Literature review and preliminary report. Martu Common Law Land Claim”

3. File: Review and draft review of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery of Western Australia, March 1993. Also includes letter of invitation to CTS to convene the review group, December 1992 – background to the review - many hand-written notes

4. File: CTS appointment as a member of the Western Australian Sports Centre Trust (WASCT), 1993-1996 5. Miscellaneous, letters to CTS, including visit of Canadian scholar, Steve Prystupac


ACC 9784A/box 29 1994 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 1994 1. File: National Australia Day Council project. CTS invited to participate 2. UWA. Department of History. Minutes of meeting, 15 August 1994 3. File: The Ploughman in History. Correspondence, funding application, drafts of the anthology, research

notes, postcards and other images depicting ploughmen, 1994-1997 4. File: Manuscript, “Great Southern Land”. Typed Chapters 1, 3, 4 and 5. Ch4 with corrections. Includes

Correspondence with Jill Lane, OUP. Includes hand-written notes 5. “How to be Australia”, booklet, 1994, covering letter from Monash University 6. Aquinas College history, 1994

ACC 9784A/box 30 1995 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 1995 1. Review of a report, “Material culture and the cultural environment: objects and places”. Reviewed for

Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories 2. File: Public History Review (publication). CTS editorial board member, 1995 3. Notes for an address to the Commission on Government public seminar on Specified Matter 9 – an

independent archives authority, 5th September 1995 4. file: UWA Department of History. First year history enrolments, 1987-1995 – Staff-student ratios –

Review of Committees of the Department of History – Comments on committee papers – Student perceptions of teaching, summary of comments – Results of 2nd/3rd year History Department student survey – Minutes of a Department meeting, 15 November 1995

5. File: The 1901 Committee, 1995-1997 6. Correspondence, 1995 7. Address to launch “Alexander Forbes of Breshin: The First Tractarian Bishop’ by Rowan Strong.

Includes reflections on CTS’ father as priest

ACC 9784A/box 31 1995 Centre for Western Australian History in conjunction with the Australian Heritage Commission. Principle Australian Historic Themes Project, May 1995. Three volumes, spiral bound: 1. Vol 1: Presentation and discussion of a thematic framework 2. Vol 2: Stage 2: Testing the utility of the proposed principal Australian historic themes 3. Vol 3: Supporting documentation. 4. File of loose papers, including draft copies, reports, hand-written notes, background notes, research


notes.

ACC 9784A/box 32 1995 Hasluck Conference, 1995: ”Light that time has made”. includes: 1. File: Correspondence, October 1993-August 1996 2. File: Miscellaneous documents, including budgetary figure – schedule of events – proposed notes for

opening address – programme – hand-written notes 3. Keynote address, Hon. EG Whitlam 4. Notes for opening ceremony, Sir Charles Court 5. Copies of conference papers, some marked, ‘draft’, submitted by: Albinski, Henry, - Bennett, Bruce –

Nelson, Hank – Pemberton, Gregory – Rowse, Tim – Sanders, Will – Warhurst, John

ACC 9784A/box 33 1996 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 1996 1. The Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts, 1996-1997. Proposal and related correspondence,

reports, minutes, includes letters of support that Sally Morgan be appointed director of the Centre for Indigenous Research and be appointed professor at UWA

2. Review of the UWA BA, BA(Asian Studies) and BA(European Studies). Executive summary, photocopy, heavily annotated. (1996?)

3. Equity Committee, re the position of women academic staff at UWA 4. Letter to the editor at the West Australian newspaper, in response to “Colourful Catholic history gets

bogged down in boring academia” 5. Correspondence, general, 1996

ACC 9784A/box 34 1997 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 1997 1. File: Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 1997-2007. Correspondence, minutes of meetings,

reports. CTS elected as a Fellow, 1997, member of the inaugural Board of The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), 2004-2005

2. File: Conference, “Images of the Urban”, Sunshine Coast University College, July 1997 3. File: Our Century. CTS requested by Look Television Productions to name 15 prominent Australians

and 15 significant events, 1997-1998


4. File: Australian Research Council. Application for a research infrastructure equipment and facilities grant (RIEFP)

5. File: “reviving our suburbs”, by Geoff Gallop 6. File: “8 Chester Street, Subiaco for a series of house biographies”. Urban research program, ANU.

Proposal for a book, “Our house” 7. File: UWA, various documents: Academic staff agreement, 1997 – Australian Studies 200 checklists –

Proposed new course: Australian Studies 100 – MA in Applied History by Coursework – Audit of two publications, 1996, Gregory’s ‘Building a tradition’ and CTS, ‘Lakeside city’ – Faculty paper on the recommended number of units offered – A concept proposal for establishing a centre for humanities and social sciences research – Assessor’s report: teaching – Election to membership of the Teaching and Learning Committee

8. Notes for speech to Curtin staff, students and community, 27 February 1997 9. File: Notes for 10 minute Panel Address, National Teaching Forum, Canberra 25 November 1997 –

Notes, “Is landscape neutral?” – Notes, “War, music and art” – Notes, “The countryside ideal: Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also notes for “Joy and forgiveness in a haunted land” – Notes, Langland’s Piers Plowman, 14th century AD). Tutorial three – “Religion and the seasons (and time)” April 1999, for “Beyond belief in religion in world history”

10. File: Miscellaneous documents, mainly letters to CTS, including congratulatory letters on his Order of Australia (AM) award and the Excellence in Teaching Awards for Best Course Work Unit. Includes review of Phillip Pendal’s, “Leave Granted”. Includes brief statement of indicative costs for City of Perth Project, January 1997

ACC 9784A/box 35 1998 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 1998 1. Christ Church Grammar School, speech night address 2. File: UWA, various documents: Correspondence – minutes of meetings (various committees) – CTS

invited to launch the publication, “Ritualist on a tricycle” – Discussion paper, “Men in Arts – an Equity Group?”, by Sato Juniper (Women in Science and Engineering), draft only, for comment, few notations by CTS? – merit loading for

3. File: National Teaching Forum, Canberra, 1998 4. File: 30 June 1998 Address to Humanities students, typescript. – Manuscript ‘The Freedom to Teach in

Humanities in Universities’, hand-written – ‘Learning with Teaches, Listening to Students’ – a 15


minute address? Hand-written, photocopy – Notes – freedom to teach? – Address dedicated to the memory of Diane Barwick. – ‘What Makes a Good Teacher?’ Address, Tuart College Nov 2006. – Division of Humanities, Curtin. ‘& Finance, Teaching & Research’

5. File: CTS notes: Teaching a Diverse Student Population. – Divinity talk. – Agenda & Issues papers. – Notes for lecture to Senior Staff of Independent Schools, organised by Ronda Beck. Held at St Mary’s AGS. – Parts of the Freedom to Teach Lecture – Notes, ‘man with the blue guitar’

6. Master Builders Association Centennial Dinner, 28 March 1998. Notes of talk by CTS 7. File: Miscellaneous documents, mainly letters to CTS relating to academic matters

ACC 9784A/box 36 1999 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 1999 1. File: Curtin annual ethics lecture CTS introduction to Prof. Peter Newman Sept 1999. CTS first public

“duty” for Curtin. 2. File: Founding Documents Website project 3. File: Australian National University (ANU) History Department. CTS talk on “Other history departments

in Australia today” 4. File: Sir Charles Court Young Leaders Program 5. File: Assessment of Australian Research Council (ARC) small grants 6. File: “Conference on Belonging”, Australian National University (ANU) 7. Notes for Robertson Memorial Lecture 16 Sept 1999. CTS to give vote of thanks 8. Report to Department of History, Flinders University, concerning its future staff directions. 9. Hand-written notes, staff welcome, (Curtin) 20 September 1999 10. Guildford Grammar School speech night, 3 December 1999 11. Speech notes for the Jillian Bradshaw Courtyard 12. File: Miscellaneous documents, mainly letters to CTS, includes a study leave application for July 1999-

May 2000, includes a small notebook, short rough notes, but mainly appointments and telephone numbers

ACC 9784A/box 37 2000 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 2000 1. Notes for book launch for Dr. Takao and Alexy Mourayley, 16 May 2000 2. Address: “Joined up thinking and a sense of belonging” outline of an address to WA Public Sector

Leadership, 8 August 2000


3. Futures in the Past’ Australian Historical Association Conference 2000. CTS panel session, 7 July. 4. File: Academy of Humanities Forum March 2003. Death of the Book – Academy of Humanities Forum

Nov. 2003 Symposium. Writers, Readers and Publishers. – Launch of “Benang” by Kim Scott, includes related correspondence. – Foreword for “Through Silent Country” by Carolyn Dowley, and co-launch. – “Australia: It’s What We Make It”, a Centenary of Federation talk 2nd June – Talk at Conference “Public Threats Public Responses - Challenges for us all”. CTS talk “Putting Things in Context: an Historical Perspective”. – Wythenoes in Gondwanaland, opening pages of chapter 1, CTS’s history of Australia

5. “Celebrate WA 2000”. Includes photograph of the Advisory Committee members; certificate; promotional material

6. Hand-written, 27p., first page marked “essays 9 October 2000? (Friday crossed through). First sentence begins ‘Broken liberty and civil liberties’

7. Natasha Stott Despoja, JCPM Library Anniversary Lecture, 5 July 2000, CTS introductory speech 8. Seminar with Prof. Mike Wood “The Place of Humanities in Business” - “Business and Humanities; 2

sides of the same coin? 23 August 2000. Typescript, and hand-written notes. 9. Book launch address, “Human Rights, Gender Politics in the Asia Pacific Region”, 7 December 2000 10. File: Mainly hand-written notes, drafts of talks , speeches, including: ‘Place of Children’ – Music studies

proposal, 2001. – Notes for talk to Art students and staff. – notes, Coaldrake/Stedman - 26 July 2001 Manuscript, incomplete - possibly version of Freedom to Teach. - Partnerships and Collaborations; their importance to the Humanities, Social Sciences and Creative Arts. Paper submitted to the Australian, 13 July 2001 - Manuscript notes for farewell speech for Sidonie (and Greg). - Manuscript notes, presentation to AISWA 18 June 2001 “Schools & Universities: Contact & Contest”. - Manuscript notes, ‘Intersection of Teaching & Research in the ‘New Economy’, Canberra July 2001. – Manuscript notes from a seminar? – The Freedom to Teach, Seminar ANU, CTS visiting fellowship, 27 August 1999. – Campus Review, January 2003, Larissa Behrendt article. – Notes for Dr. Eric Tan re Curtin Centre for Australian Studies, 24 March 2000. – Imaging the Modern City by James Donald manuscript notes for review? launch? – Manuscript notes for The City – Manuscript notes and correspondence re Suspect Images of a Mist Procession. – 25 January 2003 typed notes - address to LICT graduation ceremony Kuala Lumpur.

11. Book launch, “T.L. Robertson” by Michael White. Introduction by CTS, 26 July 2000. Includes related papers.

12. Folder, “drafts of Tom’s talks” 13. File: Miscellaneous - mainly letters to CTS, related to committees and students/former students,


2000s. Includes Cultural Diversity Day panel discussion. Includes 1 page paper on Dorothy Hewitt, includes a negative (photographic image) of Dorothy Hewitt (from the portrait by Nora Heyssen?)

ACC 9784A/box 38 File:2000-2005, “Tom’s speeches”. Includes: 15 July 2005 Prof d’Cruz retirement – 27 August 2004 Welcome, launch, Media-Asia Research Group. – August 2004 Forward for the ‘designxchange’ exhibition catalogue –11 Nov. 2005 Day of Provocation Speech Launch, “The Lowest Rung: voices of Australian Poverty” by Mark Peel. – 21 July 2005 Opening, ‘Indigenous Art and Healing and Big Red Country’. – 19 August 2005 Chair “A new Backyard Blitz” – Launch Kim Scott Benang – 27 August 2005 Address to Kim Lok Wing Uni College of Creative Technology, graduation ceremony. – 16 June 2004 Speech at and launch, by Brendon Nelson, of the Report of the A.R.C. Linkage projects “Attraction of Strangers: Partnerships in Humanities Research” CHASS. – 24 May 2004 Margaret Medcalf Awards. – 24 Sept 2004 Presentation to the Academic Board, Curtin – 25 January 2003 Address to LICT Graduation –25 February 2002 Curtin, Humanities Restructured “Beyond 2002” – 24 May 2004 Margaret Medcalf Award. – 7 July 2002 Sir Charles Court Young Leaders Programme. – 26 July 2001 National Summit of Humanities “Intersection of Teaching and Research in the New Economy” – 7 Dec. 2001 Book Launch “Human Rights, Gender Politics in the Asia Pacific Region”. – 14 August 2001 Federalism Forum “Cultural Policy in Australia” – 18 July 2001 Careers evening Curtin – 28 June 2001 Address to the Assoc. of Independent Schools WA Council Meeting. – 25 March 2001 Singapore Graduation – 10 Dec. 2000 Opening Address for art exhibition “LICENCED” – 23 August 2000 Seminar “The Place of Humanities in Business”

ACC 9784A/box 39 2001 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 2001 1. File: School of Architecture, Construction and Planning prize giving speech, 19 February 2001. 2

typescripts, edited + hand-written draft and notes 2. File: “Our House History of Australian Homes” – ‘The Federation House, 8 Chester St’ 3. File: CTS notes: 1. Typed, Address to Singapore Graduation – Humanities & Business 25 march 2001. –

2. Association for Tertiary Education Management 2001. CTS & Lyndon Rowe to speak. – 3. Typed notes for address to Association of Independent Schools of WA Council Meeting 28 June 2001, ‘Schools & Universities: Contact & Context’. – 4. Manuscript, brief address to finalists etc for 2nd Prime Minister’s Award for the Australian Teacher of the Year 1998. David Kemp, Minister for Education. – 5.


Photocopy, address to University Teachers etc (Canberra Forum?) ‘The Freedom to Teach’. – 6. Agenda “WA Public Sector Leadership Convention” 4 – 6 Aug 2002. ‘Public Threats, Public Responses. Challenges for us all’. CTS to give opening address. - 7. Notes re Internship Program: United States Congress, Washington DC Aug 2002. – 8. Typed ‘Proposal for the establishment of a Humanities Division Research Unit for Stronger Communities, prepared by CTS. – 9. Letter to Alcoa seeking sponsorship support for the WA Institute of Sport Oct 2002, including WAIS request

4. “Partnerships and collaborations”, by CTS and Deborah Gare, in ‘Position papers, The National Humanities & Social Sciences Summit’ National Museum July 2001

5. The Deane Terrell Inquiry documents relating to plagiarism allegation at Curtin: Report, 2001 – Some related letters, statements, hand-written notes. – Letter to Debbie Hindley re LICT Graduation, KL, 5 January 2001.

6. Book launch: “Human rights and social work”, 18 July 2001 7. “Australians at play: an Australian culture: Australia’s sporting culture”. Guest lecturers CTS and

Debbie Hindley, October 2001 – “The antipodean experiment: the making of Australia” Debbie Hindley lecture 2001

8. Federalism Forums, at Parliament House, NSW, 14 August 2001 CTS’s talk, typed, and manuscript copy 9. Launch address “Migration, Ethnicity, Refugee and Citizenship Research Unit”, 9 October 2001.

Includes related papers WA Public Sector Leadership 3 Day Residential Convention, “Joined-up thinking”, held at Joondalup, 6-8 August, 2000: “Joined-up thinking”. CTS to give opening address, “Putting Things in Context: An Historical Perspective” and presenting, “Joined up thinking and a sense of belonging: two sides of the same coin belonging in a global world: an historian’s perspective on Australia’s future”

10. Address to the Assoc. for Tertiary Education Management “The Role of Unis: Education v. Training”, 22nd February. 2001.

11. Book launch “Lady Onslow’s Legacy”, 31 October 200. Typescript and hand-written notes (Brightwater notes by Deb Gare). 2001

12. 13 May 2001 Australian Heritage commission booklet “Australian Historical Themes”, 2001. CTS contribution to the framework

13. Speech, typed - cultural policy - “Love, Time and Imagination” dedicated to Memory of Bill Warnock. (2001?)


ACC 9784A/box 40 2002 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 2002 1. Address, introducing Moira Rayner, and the 4th Annual Clare Burton lecture (2002?) 2. Programme for WA Public Sector Leadership Convention. CTS opening address, “Putting Things in

Context: An Historical Perspective”, 4-6 August 2002 3. Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger Communities at Curtin University, 2002-3 4. Harmony Day, 2002. CTS speech re Australia and multiculturism – Harmony Day 2003, Curtin Cultural

Diversity Day 5. International conference, “Higher education for the 21st century”, held at Curtin Sarawak Campus,

Malaysia, September 2002. Notes and programme only 6. “History then”, notes for talk, 17 November 2002 7. Paper presented to the Friends of UWA Library “On Loving the Colorado School of Mines” typed, 19

June 2002 8. “Pasar Malam” programme, 2nd September 2002 9. Launch of “Essays in Masculinities Studies”, 5 September 2002 10. Presentation to Council, at Curtin, 19 June 2002, plus accompanying papers. Also “Beyond 2002 -

Restructure” Memo to all staff 27 March 2002 11. Miscellaneous: correspondence 12. The Great Debate: Universities are living communities, 8 November 2002 13. Conference at Curtin Feb. 2002 “Mediating Human Rights and Democracy in Indonesia, Asia and the

Netherlands”. Including CTS speech Day 2

ACC 9784A/box 41 2003 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 2003 1. File: Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2003-2008. Includes CTS certification as a Chief Investigator,

correspondence 2. File: Centenary Medal award to CTS, 2003 3. Speech: by CTS at Fremantle Prison Descendants Day Event, 2 June 2003 4. “Edith’s Evening”: Karrakatta Club. CTS intro to evening honouring Edith Cowan, August 2003 5. CTS vote of thanks to lecture by Prof J Galtung 9 April 2003. Peace Scholar. Human Right 6. Papers for Humanities Strategic Planning Workshop, September 2003 7. Australian Citizenship Ambassador 8. Geography of Sport and Recreation


ACC 9784A/box 42 2004 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 2004 1. File: Jill Roe festschrift 2. File: Curtin Community Engagement, 2004-2006 3. File: Curtin University. Division of Humanities. Includes meeting of Heads of Departments, Faculty

Deans & Administration, 27 April 2004 4. File: Curtin University of Technology. Senior Management Geraldton Retreat, 1-3 June 2004 5. Book launch: “The lowest rung” by Mark Peel, at the inaugural conference of the Society of

Professional Social Workers, May 2004 6. International Women’s Day 7. Miscellaneous, emails, secondment to Australia Research Institute

ACC 9784A/box 43 2005 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 2005 1. File: Council for Multicultural Australia (CMA): CTS Australian Citizenship Ambassador. Draft paper,

“Building Australia’s social and skills advantage”. Submission by the Council for Multicultural Australia. Includes related documents, funding for multicultural programs and document on community reactions to the Cronulla (NSW) riots –minutes and related documents, 2005-2006

2. File: The Smith Family, 2005-2011 3. Letter CTS re ‘Day of Provocation’ workshop, includes CTS’ opening address, November 2005 4. “Three titles book launch”, Black Swan Press at Curtin, 28 July 2005 5. Miscellaneous: Correspondence, 2005

ACC 9784A/box 44 2006 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 2006 1. File: The Australian History Summit, transcript of proceedings, August 2006. CTS CMA participant.

Includes some related documents, 2006 2. File: Jones Lang LaSalle, possible role with UWA, 2006 3. File: Knowledge transfer and community engagement, 2006 4. File: CHASS Bibliometrics Project, November 2006-May 2007 5. File: Governor Stirling High School. CTS keynote speaker at graduation ceremony, 2006 6. Notes for CTS farewell speech from position as Executive Dean, Division of Humanities, Curtin

University, 9 August 2006


7. “The Role of Universities: Education v. Training”. CTS address and notes for speech (2006?) 8. DASH conference Griffiths University “What is the State of the Disciplines in Australia and New

Zealand?”, 27 September 2006. Copy of the program, emails, comments only 9. File: History of Aboriginal Legal Services. Correspondence. 2006-7 10. File: CTS departure from Executive Dean at Curtin and study leave

ACC 9784A/box 45 2007-2012 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, 2007 1. File: Woodside Valley Foundation AGM, 27 November 2007 2. “Learning for Life”: Tertiary Awards Presentation, 28 March 2007. Smith Family tertiary scholarship

program 3. Melbourne symposium honouring Marian Quartly, to be held February 2008. Hand-written notes and

correspondence with Monash, mainly travel and accommodation arrangements, 2007 4. File: Curtin. Various papers, including: “Fundraising: for what purposes and from whom? A Curtin

conumdrum” – “Curtin University of …? – “Curtin and Perth” – “Community engagement” (handwritten) – “Bishop’s betrayal? (handwritten)

5. Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library. University of South Australia“. A Review of Certain Aspects, by CTS & Alison McKinnon, December 2008. Includes related papers: correspondence – reports – notes – meetings

6. 2008. Miscellaneous, correspondence, notes 7. Revised biography for Who’s Who in Australia, June 2009 8. 2009. Notes (for Mary Moore?) re National Portrait Gallery commission to paint Fiona Stanley. -

Correspondence with Lyall Hunt re Frank Crowley material, 1st May 2009 9. 2012. Mundaring Arts Centre workshop 10. “Seeking wisdom: truth, beauty, and the future of community democracy”. (typescript), 2012. The last

words written by Tom. “Paper was to be delivered 11 Oct 2012 public meeting anti-council amalgamation.” (this description by Maria Stannage). Includes an extract from the paper, read by Richard Diggins (part of a eulogy?)

RESEARCH PAPERS - MISCELLANEOUS

Boxes 46-54 consist mainly of hand-written notes, for research for publications, for speeches given at various community events and for lectures at the University of Western Australia, Curtin University and


Murdoch University. There are also documents relating to unit content at the universities above. The material is in no particular order, when available, file names were used to describe the documents.

ACC 9784A/box 46 Interpreting convictism in WA

ACC 9784A/box 47 Australians under the Southern Cross. History 104, 1987-1991

ACC 9784A/box 48 Modern British history

ACC 9784A/box 49 Art & architecture - special topic. History 140. 1977-1982

ACC 9784A/box 50 Mainly Aboriginal history lecture and research notes etc.

ACC 9784A/box 51 Miscellaneous documents, description from folder title:–20th century Australia–Boer War tutorial notes 1980–History 242/342, 1984, handouts and tutorial times–The taming of distance–Commissioner Bigge–Maritime strike–Australian language, 1983–Australian society, 1901-1914–Notes for tutors–The Age of the Bourgeoisie–Exam question lecture, 1980–Myall Creek Massacre–Gold rushes–Electoral rolls–John Horgan and Westralian history–Beating the secret ballot, 1888–Environmental history–First Australians, antipodean culture, 1788-1850 lecture –Churches, 1835-1850 –Pastoral society –Constitutional history to 1850s –Education lecture–Taming distance, Australian transport, 1788-1900–RM Crawford, Renaissance

ACC 9784A/box 52 Miscellaneous documents, description from folder title: –Reading 1930s culture–John Grierson’s documentary film on Britain in the 1930s, based on Auden’s poem, “Night Mail”–Mass media, public broadcasting–JM Keynes–Ireland–White Australia, race relations–Henry Reynolds, 1980–Bushranging–Work and labour relations, 1850-1890–Civil liberties and selling Australia–Ruling Australia, thawing Australia, selling Australia, 1997 lecture–Lecture, ‘Violence and happiness in Australian history’ –Faction politics 1858-1890–Colonial professions–Manning Clark–Lecture notes History 104, Violence–Anzac to Amiens (CEW Bean)–History 104, 1974. The course to 1850 –Primary and secondary sources; structure of lectures–Gold rushes–Eureka–Overview of economy, 1860-1890–Repression of the 1890s–Australian Studies 100, Great Southern Land

ACC 9784A/box 53 Miscellaneous documents, description from folder title: –Lecture, WA 1830/31–Appeasing Hitler–Lecture on World War 11–Urban society to 1850s–Cities of the future, cities of destiny–Honours seminar, 1992, Whither Australian historical writing?–Honours lecture, History 36 (Histograph), 1974-75–Honours seminar, 1986, 1988, New Directions in Australian Historical Writing–Honours seminars, 1995, 1997, Towards 2001: historians and public life in Australia–History 20, 1971, student feed-back, CTS compilation of results –Sr. Veronica Brady note to CTS re outline of course for English 35–Age of the Bourgeoisie–Introduction to Social Work, 2000–Australian Studies: Mphil. Australian Society and Culture–Race


relations, research project on racism in Western Australia, 1980s

ACC 9784A/box 54 Miscellaneous documents, description from folder title: –Crime lecture, 1981-1982–Census figures, 1870-1891–Federation –Freezing Australia–Cold War lecture–Lecture notes for Anzac, Empire, Gallipoli, Great War–Appeasing Capitalism–Selling Australia 1980s–Ashes of Empire, 1996-1994, unit proposal, research notes, lecture notes–Poetry and history–Ballads and songs of Australia–History 104, Migrant people–Professionalization of history, lecture 1998–Notes for lectures, 1995–Western Australia 40000 BC to 1980s, suggested course–(Australian) progress lectures–History 14, 1860-1890–Students assessment of the course–Australian history, 1977–Australian Visual Culture, 1988–Frank Crowley

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