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University of Queensland Democratic Club

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University of Queensland Democratic Club (1945-197?).
Objectives - To maintain academic freedom in an era where the actions of sections of the university community threaten this freedom and to articulate policies for the security and betterment of Australian democratic society, policies which often conflict with left-wing ideologies.
Publicists - Pat Byrne, Phil Lawler, David Lewis, Catherine Mullins.
Notes: The Club was originally formed to encourage political discussion with an emphasis on constitutional reform. It soon became defunct and was revived in the late sixties-early seventies period. It was associated with the "Counter-Revolutionary Moratorium Committee".

University of Queensland Music Advisory Board

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The prime function of the Music Advisory Board was to manage, conduct and control public examinations in music as directed by the Australian Music Examinations Board. The Board consisted of the President of the Board of Faculties, the Musical Advisor to the university, and teachers of music whom the Board of Faculties had recommended and the Senate appointed. Other duties included maintenance of a register of Queensland music teachers, with qualifications approved by AMEB.

University of Queensland Press

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The archive documents the history of the press from about 1965, the time of University of Queensland Press's expansion from a university publications outlet into a fully-fledged publishing house. UQP has a strong focus on Australian studies and has produced series such as Paperback Poets, Poets on Record, Australian Authors, Studies in Australian Literature, Black Australian Writers and Australian public figures and Australian public issues on tape. Authors with production files in the collection include Peter Carey, Olga Masters, David Malouf, Thomas Shapcott, John Manifold, Michael Dransfield, Janette Turner Hospital, Nancy Cato, Judith Rodriguez, Ross Fitzgerald and Denis Murphy.

Results 1911 to 1920 of 1952