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Queensland -- Politics and government -- 1965-
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F. D. O. Fielding Papers

  • UQFL126
  • Collection
  • 1969-2014

Correspondence; articles, newspaper cuttings; newsletters; press releases from Queensland Council for Civil Liberties; University Senate correspondence including minutes and agendas; papers from the Senate Review of Academic Organisation of the University; reports including the Committee of Inquiry into the Development of Pharmacology in the University of Queensland; papers including a history of the Thirty Club meetings from 1921 to 1982.

Fielding, F. D. O. (Fred Derek Osmond), 1929-2014

Queensland Council for Civil Liberties Records

  • UQFL240
  • Collection
  • 1967-2007

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, reports, newsletters, brochures, subject files, minutes, notes, memos, press releases.

Queensland Council for Civil Liberties

Documenting left politics and struggles in Brisbane

  • UQFL281
  • Collection
  • 1949-1995.

Reports, pamphlets, brochures, conference material, meeting minutes, correspondence, journals and posters relating to Left-wing politics in Brisbane with an emphasis on women's movement activities and trade union activity within Telecom Australia. Collection also includes family photographs, ephemera and trade union and Australian Labor Party membership tickets.
Bulk of records cover 1980s and early 1990s.

McFarlane, Marie

Gay issues 1891-1994 : mainstream political and cultural perspective : a comprehensive archive and index

  • UQFL249
  • Collection
  • Bulk: 1974-1994

Files containing copies of press clippings, minutes of meetings, articles and reports, media releases, submissions, ministerial statements, newsletters, correspondence and ephemera. Compiled by Greg Weir during twenty years of political activism, the collection records the public debate on gay and lesbian issues, homosexual law reform, introduction of anti-discrimination legislation, the growth of gay awareness, AIDS, the links between gay issues and political change. Also vol. 7 contains a small amount of material about the peace movement and the Australian Labor Party. Weir's comprehensive indexes to the files are bound in a separate volume.

Accompanied by 184 35mm slides, depicting posters collected by Weir over approximately 25 years, which relate to rallies, events and other activities related to his interests. Also folder containing 3.5inch floppy discs with WordPerfect files of indexes.

Weir, Greg

Ted and Eva Bacon Papers

  • UQFL241
  • Collection
  • 1936 - 1993

Correspondence, minutes, typescript articles, reports, circular letters, photographs and subject files on issues of interest to the Bacons' including the Communist Party of Australia, International Women's Day, Aboriginal Australians, the peace movement and women's rights. Bulk of collection from 1970s and 1980s.

Bacon, Eva, 1909-1994

Judith Clark Papers

  • UQFL609
  • Collection
  • 1970-1992

Flyers, newsletters and internal publications. Includes photographs from the early 1970s and a T-Shirt depicting a caricature of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen; material from various groups, including Queensland Democracy Support Group, Queensland Civil Liberties Co-ordinating Committee and trade unions calling for action against the Bjelke-Petersen Government during the 1985 SEQEB dispute; material from the Queensland Solidarity Group and Queensland Civil Liberties Co-ordinating Committee relating to Civil liberties and the banning of street marches in Queensland, 1976 to 1992.

Clark, Judith

Political badges / collected by Carole Ferrier.

  • F3424
  • Item
  • [197-?] - [198-?]

Badges relating to issues and groups such as the Aboriginal land rights, abortion, anti war movement, anti nuclear movement and University fees.

Ferrier, Carole, 1946-

Photographs of a demonstration against the awarding of an honorary doctorate of Laws to Queensland Premier Johannes Bjelke Petersen, Mayne Hall, University of Queensland, 1985

  • F3483
  • File
  • 1985

Thirty-two black and white photographs, on a CD-ROM, of a demonstration on 10 May 1985 against the awarding of an honorary doctorate of Laws to Queensland Premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. Up to 5000 UQ students, UQ staff, trade unionists and other outraged citizens attended the protest outside Mayne Hall, St Lucia, where the award ceremony was to take place. Although the ceremony proceeded, the Premier did not attend.

Photographs:
1 and 17. Academics with 'University of Queensland Academic Staff Association (Union of Employees)' Banner.
2 and 18. Protestors, one holding placcard, looking towards lawn in front of Forgan Smith Building West Wing.
3 and 19. Protestors with placcards saying 'University Senate supports the rich. Not truth' and 'A degree below normal'.
4 and 20. Three young men with Nazi regalia including one in a graduate gown with Nazi regalia on sleeve, and protestor in a clown suit.
5 and 21. Protestors enacting a ceremonial Nazi flag burning on the steps of the Forgan Smith building, with some wearing Nazi regalia.
6 and 22. Protestor with PA system on steps of Forgan Smith Building (that lead into the Department of Law).
7 and 23. Protestors with a banner from the Federated Clerks Union on the lawns in front of Forgan Smith Building West Wing facing Mayne Hall, University of Queensland. Includes former library staff Deb Johnston, Noela Stallard and Amanda Courtney.
8 and 24. Demonstrators with banners outside Mayne Hall, University of Queensland. Banners include: 'Shame Senate [indecipherable]', 'International Socialists. Strike Petersen out!', and 'Unite in opposition'.
9 and 25. Protestors outside Mayne Hall, University of Queensland.
10 and 26. Police, demonstrators and media outside Mayne Hall at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. Harley Stumm, 4ZZZ journalist can be seen with glasses. Dan O'Neill (partially obscured) can be seen with megaphone.
11 and 27. Protestors sitting on grass at the University of Queensland.
12 and 28. Brad Bauman, University of Queensland student Union president about to address the crowd.
13 and 29. Protestors with masks, mortar boards and placard at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. Phil Monsour can be seen on far left.
14 and 30. Jack Ford and David Barbagallo with protestors holding flags and Nazi regalia on the steps of the Forgan Smith Building (that lead into the Department of Law).
15 and 31. Protestors with Academics for Human Rights banner in front of Central Library. Professor Eileen Byrne can be seen behind banner in the middle. Christine Cuskelly can be seen in right hand foreground.
16 and 32. Protestors from the Federated Clerks Union at Mayne Hall, University of Queensland including Library staff member, Noela Stallard.

Rutherford, Joanne

Madeleine McPherson Papers

  • UQFL307
  • Collection
  • 1978-1984.

Correspondence, leaflets, brochures, minute books, membership lists, newsletters, press clippings, publicity material relating to activities of various Queensland branches and organizations to which she belonged, including Australian Labor Party branches and factions, the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties and the Australia-China Society.

McPherson, Madeleine, 1941-

Young Labor Association, Queensland Branch Records

  • UQFL313
  • Collection
  • 1959-1984.

Correspondence, principally between 1964 and 1968; minutes of branch meetings; membership lists; brochures; articles; extracts from publications; speeches; conference papers; newsletters.
Bulk of records from 1964-1968.

Young Labor Association, Queensland Branch

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