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Petitions

Original pages of a 1988 petition opposing foreign ownership of Australian land. The pages record the names, addresses and signatures of hundreds of petitioners.

Minutes of Aboriginal Community Meetings

Minutes of meetings Aboriginal Community Meetings for: 4 Nov 1987, 11 Nov 1987, 14 Jan 1988, and undated. These minutes are mostly for preparation for the Cultural Survival Gathering in Musgrave Park, Brisbane from 27 April 1988 to 5 May 1988.

Oscar and Lucinda [novel] (1988)

Oscar and Lucinda had the working titles 'Orphans', 'Broken Glass', and 'Holy Ghost'. Published in 1988 in Australia by University of Queensland Press. In the same year it won the Book Council Award (Australia), Booker Prize for Fiction (Australia) and Miles Franklin Award. Includes: Complete and incomplete drafts of Oscar and Lucinda and its working titles, including corrections, notes, correspondence, research material, publicity material, reviews, speech notes for the launch of Oscar and Lucinda. Oscar and Lucinda has won the Booker Prize 1988, Miles Franklin Award 1989, NBC Banjo Award 1989, Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award 1988, and the Festival Award for Literature (South Australia) 1990.

Foreign land ownership research

Notes and research material relating to foreign investment and land ownership in Australia. The material includes a copy of the maiden parliamentary speech by Wayne Goss MLA, newspaper cuttings and some correspondence.

Correspondence from 1967 to 1988.

Correspondence, enclosures, book jackets, notes on works, mementos and personal papers (e.g. application for Stanford writing scholarship); 1 folder containing letters to Carey and Leigh Weetman from her family (1967-1968).

Bliss [screenplay] and Bliss [motion picture]

This series consists of drafts, story boards , screenplay proofs, script amendments, and filming schedules, timings, etc. for the film Bliss. Also includes correspondence. Bliss was the winner of the Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Source (Australian Film Institute Awards), 1985.

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