Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank papers related to Mackellar by-election campaign, 1993-1994

MLMSS 8137

fonds

1993-1994

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera, Posters

16864

1.32 metres of texual material (5 boxes, 1 outsize box)

Bob Ellis, Australian writer, journalist, film-maker and political commentator, has had a long association with the Australian Labor Party, as a supporter, commentator and critic. His campaign as an Independent candidate in the by-election for the federal seat of Mackellar on Sydney's northern beaches in 1994, was framed as a partisan contest against the Liberal candidate, Bronwyn Bishop. No Labor candidate was fielded and, although Ellis was unsuccessful in winning the seat, his devestating editorials against Bishop, mainly published in the Manly Daily, and the resultant swing against the Liberals, are seen to have effectively ended her run for the Liberal Party leadership.

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Papers collected by Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank in relation to Ellis's campaign as an Independent candidate for the By-Election for the Federal seat of Mackellar on 26 March 1994.

BOX 1
Correspondence with well known identities including Les Murray, Rodney Cavalier, Bronwyn Bishop, Jim Carlton (previous Liberal member for Mackellar), John Singleton, David Paul, John Hepworth, David Williamson and Tony Morphett.
Campaign letters and faxes, in and out. Draft speeches and articles, and material relating to campaign events.

BOX 2
Campaign and polling information, press releases, leaflets and draft articles, material related to Bronwyn Bishop and a bushfire benefit concert organised by Ellis. Also includes campaign advertising and publicity material including printed ephemera, leaflets, flyers and stickers. Also includes the results of a phone poll conducted as part of Ellis's campaign

BOX3
Notebooks and campaign diaries containing manuscript drafts of ideas, speeches, photocopied letters to the editor of the Manly Daily and other press editors

BOX 4
Letters to Bob Ellis from the public, many of which accompanied financial contributions toward his campaign

BOX 5
Campaign advertising material, drafts and photocopies of articles published mainly in the Manly Daily

BOX 6(X)
Campaign posters and oversize photocopies of published articles

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