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Title
Date(s)
- 1964-1996 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
4 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
A graduate of The University of Queensland, Ross Gwyther had a long career as a geophysicist at the University and the CSIRO, followed by ten years as an organiser with the National Tertiary Education Union. He retired in 2013. He has been actively involved in the labour, environment and peace movements for over 50 years. He was a founding committee member of both the Anti-Uranium Campaign in Brisbane in 1976, and People for Nuclear Disarmament in 1983. Since then, he has played prominent roles in the campaign groups Just Peace and the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network. He has also served on the management committee of the Brisbane Labour History Association, and with the retired trade unionists' group, Vintage Reds.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Ross Gwyther.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Minutes, correspondence, newsletters, membership lists and ephemera of People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND), with particular emphasis on PND groups in Brisbane; documents relating to other peace and anti-nuclear organisations in the 1980s and 1990s; media reports and articles relating to the nuclear industry and the anti-nuclear movement
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
This collection is arranged into five series: PND administration; PND campaigns and public activities; PND ephemera; media reports and articles; and kindred peace organisations. In each series, the titles of the files have been transcribed from the titles of the original folders.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
In copyright. May be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
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Name access points
- People for Nuclear Disarmament (Subject)
- Gwyther, Ross, 1949- (Subject)
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Status
Final
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation revision deletion
Created, JR, 15-Dec-2023