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Glass plate negatives

49 glass plate negatives, 9 x 9 cm, containing images mostly of Aboriginal Australian peoples, with many taken at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. Many of the plate negatives also have handwritten numbered labels attached to the frame, possibly by the creator.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Media reports

Newspaper and magazine cuttings and online news article printouts relating to government policy on refugees and asylum seekers, the management and conditions of detention centres, and the treatment of detainees and their visitors. Also includes cuttings and online printouts of published letters to editors from Juliet Flesch. The Maribyrnong, Baxter and Villawood detention centres are mentioned in some materials.

Lobbying correspondence

Correspondence relating to Juliet Flesch's lobbying for improvements regarding human rights for refugees in Australia. Includes information on deportations and removals, conditions of detention centres, treatment of detainees and visitors, and specific asylum seeker cases.

Folder 1
Correspondence relating to complaints submitted to and made against detention centres, particularly the Maribyrnong detention centre, as well as the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), Global Solutions Limited (GSL), Australasian Correctional Management (ACM) and some media outlets. The complaints pertain to alleged breaches of privacy and mistreatment of detainees and visitors. The correspondence consists of typed letters, email printouts and faxes sent between Juliet Flesch, Peter Cahill, Lyn Allison, Barry Jones, the Maribyrnong detention centre, DIMIA, GSL, ACM, The Age newspaper, the Nine Network, Philip Ruddock, Petro Georgiou, Andrew Metcalfe, Amanda Vanstone, Malcolm Turnbull and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, among others. Includes a photocopy of a petition by Maribyrnong detainees requesting improvement to living conditions as well as an anonymous letter sent to Juliet Flesch objecting to her opinions on refugees. Detainees Amin Mastapour, Mashallah Soleimani, Mohsen Soltanyzand and Shahin Agdar and the case of the death of Viliami Tanginoa are also mentioned in some letters. Dated: 2002-2009.

Folder 2
Correspondence relating to deportations and removals, and transfers of detainees between detention centres. Consists of email printouts and typed letters between Juliet Flesch, Julian Burnside, Petro Georgiou, The Age newspaper, Tanya Plibersek, Qantas, Stephen Smith, Carmen Lawrence, Lyn Allison and Amanda Vanstone, among others. Cases mentioned include Meng Kok Te, Rom Bahadur Pun, Ghanshyam Sharma, Rahmatollah Batorie, Mohsen Soltanyzand and Ali Hassanpour. Dated: 2003-2004.

Flesch, Juliet

Public activities

Printout of an information page for a petition for Peter Qasim to be released from immigration detention, possibly authored by Juliet Flesch; a typed transcript of an interview of Juliet Flesch for a Spare Lawyers for Refugees oral history project called Detention Remembered; and two versions of a typed speech by Juliet Flesch and printout of accompanying PowerPoint presentation.

Flesch, Juliet

Proof sheets and digital copies of glass plate negatives

Proof sheets and digital copies of the glass plate negatives containing images mostly of Aboriginal Australian peoples, with many taken at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement.

Parcel 2
Item 6
DVD-R containing 107 digital copies of images derived from the glass plate negatives. There are two copies of each image, in both JPG and TIF file formats.

Folder 2
Nine proof sheets of images derived from the glass plate negatives.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Personal photographs

Photographs, negatives, mounted slides and real photo postcards of Caroline Kelly, her husband, Timothy, and her extended family, and other people and places associated with Caroline Kelly and her family.

Album 1
15 real photo postcards and 166 black-and-white photographs (sizes vary) of Caroline Kelly, her husband, Timothy, and her extended family, as well as photographs of farmland and dogs, 1850s-1950s. Items 1-3, a real photo postcard and two black-and-white photographs, were originally housed in frames. Some of the people and places identified include Oscar Ulrich Vonwiller, Gordon Bennett Vonwiller, John Bennett Vonwiller, Julie Anne Vonwiller, Rathkells Farm in the Upper Kangaroo Valley and Caboonbah. Item 1 is possibly a picture of Caroline's father, Robert Francis Watson. Items 7-9 include a white ribbon and an unaddressed and undated sympathy card from the Shell Company of Australia Limited, all originally contained in an envelope marked 'Not to be opened'.

Album 2
48 negatives (sizes vary), originally stored across four original film envelopes, as well as three travel cards, 15 black-and-white photographs (sizes vary), 38 colour photographs (sizes vary) and 188 mounted slides (35mm) showing people, places and pets associated with Caroline Kelly and her family, 1940s-1980s. Some of the people and places identified include Oscar Ulrich Vonwiller, Sydney Harbour, Innisfail and Rathkells Farm in the Upper Kangaroo Valley.

Parcel 2
Item 1
Unidentified couple signing a marriage register, undated, possibly ca. 1940s.

Item 2
Group portrait of unidentified attendees at the Jewish Welfare Guardian Society of Australia First Federal Convention in Melbourne, 1948.

Item 3
Studio portrait of Caroline Kelly in a wedding gown, 1929.

Item 4
Group portrait of Caroline Kelly and Timothy Kelly on their wedding day, surrounded by unidentified guests, 1929.

Item 5
CD-R containing digitised scans of photographs from Box 10 Items 1-3, and the photographs, real photo postcards and sympathy card from Album 1, Items 1-9. There are two copies of each scan, both a JPG and TIFF copy, and 22 files in total.

Folder 1
Two contact sheets of digitised scans of photographs, real photo postcards and the sympathy card from Album 1 Items 1-7, as well as the photographs from Parcel 2 Items 1-4.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Professional photographs

Album containing 73 black-and-white photographs (sizes vary), 106 negatives (sizes vary), one colour photograph (17 x 23 cm) and 18 mounted slides (35 mm) relating to Caroline Kelly's professional life in the theatre and as an anthropologist. Includes photographs of Margaret Mead, people in possibly Samoa or another location in the Pacific Islands, people at the Cherboug community in Queensland, tobacco farming and a community gathering on the Atherton Tableland, and housing developments associated with Kelly's work for the New South Wales State Planning Authority (later known as the New South Wales Planning and Environment Commission). One set of negatives is accompanied by a handwritten note, possibly authored by Caroline Kelly, marked 'Scenes from a corroboree, N. Queensland'; another set is accompanied by a handwritten note marked 'Studies in a native settlement'.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Incoming correspondence

Inward correspondence, mostly typed, some handwritten, received by the Ecumenical Refugee Support Group Incorporated (TERSGI). Comprises photocopies, printouts and originals. The letters are mostly administrative in nature and relate to financial audits, taxation and annual returns, memberships, processes around supporting refugee clients, invitations to events and other activities, grant applications, and donations. Also includes letters received from the Department of Immigration and other government bodies, other refugee support organisations, and TERSGI members. Some correspondence relates to matters involving refugee clients, such as excursions to theme parks and similar attractions.

Box 2
Folder 6
Inward correspondence, 1990 to 1992

Folder 7
Inward correspondence, 1993 to 1994
Continues into next folder.

Folder 8
Inward correspondence, 1994
Continues from previous folder.

Folder 9
Inward correspondence, 1995

Folder 10
Inward correspondence, 1996, 2012

Ecumenical Refugee Support Group Incorporated

Outgoing correspondence

Outward correspondence, most typed, some handwritten, sent by the Ecumenical Refugee Support Group Incorporated (TERSGI). Comprises photocopies, printouts and originals. The letters are mostly administrative in nature and relate to the establishment and incorporation of TERSGI, financial audits, taxation and annual returns, insurance, processes around supporting refugee clients, grant and award applications, invitations to TERSGI events, donations from TERSGI to other organisations, and letters of thanks for donations of money, goods, or services. Also includes letters sent to the Department of Immigration and other government bodies, other refugee support organisations, and TERSGI members. Some correspondence relates to matters involving refugee clients, such as accommodation and childcare arrangements, loans, progress reports on settling families, and excursions to theme parks and similar attractions.

Box 2
Folder 1
Outward correspondence, 1990 to 1991

Folder 2
Outward correspondence, 1992 to 1993

Folder 3
Outward correspondence, 1994

Folder 4
Outward correspondence, 1995 to 1999

Folder 5
Outward correspondence, 2000 to 2009, 2012

Ecumenical Refugee Support Group Incorporated

Photographs of architectural works by Birrell

13 large mounted photographs:
[Item 1] 'Annerley Municipal Library, 1955';
[Item 2] 'Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery Aspley, 1959';
[Item 3] 'Toowong Municipal Library, 1958';
[Item 4] 'Centenary Pools [Centenary Pool], 1959';
[Item 5] 'Wickham terrace car park, 1960';
[Item 6] 'Staff House, University of Queensland, 1964';
[Item 7] 'Union College, University of Queensland, 1966';
[Item 8] 'J D Story Administration building, 1967';
[Item 9] J D Story Administration building, undated;
[Item 10] J D Story Administration building stairs, with David Knell written in ink on bottom right hand corner, undated;
[Item 11] 'Proposed Dental School', undated;
[Item 12] Model of unidentified building, undated;
[Item 13] Unidentified building, undated.

2 photographs, unmounted:
[Item 14 ] University of Queensland, St Lucia, aerial view, undated; and
[Item 15] 'University of Queensland, St Lucia, aerial view showing projects for 1964-66 triennium'.

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