Irina Dunn further papers, 1943-1994, related to Jessie Street and the Jessie Street Women's Library, 1943-1989, the National Foundation for Australian Women, 1990-1994, the Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing in 1978 and subsequent Ananda Marga conspiracy case, 1978-1991

MLMSS 8202/Boxes 1-10
MLMSS 8202/Box 11X

fonds

1943-1994

Textual Records, Photographs, Clippings, Objects, Ephemera

80546

1.7 metres of textual material (10 boxes, 1 outsize box)

Patricia Irene (Irina) Dunn, 1948-, is an Australian writer who served in the Australian Senate between 1988 and 1990. Dunn was a political activist through the 1970s and 1980s, and was particularly involved in the campaign to free from jail three men—Tim Anderson, Ross Dunn and Paul Alister—implicated in the 1978 Sydney Hilton Hotel Bombing. Dunn was Senator for New South Wales first representing the Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP), then as an independent from 21 July 1988 until 30 June 1990, being defeated in the 1990 election. Dunn was a feminist during the 1990's associated with the National Foundation for Australian Women and Jessie Street Trust and Women's Library.

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Papers, correspondence, notes, draft essays, photographs, printed material, and realia 1943-1994, related to a number of significant issues and organisations with which Irina Dunn was associated. Includes material related to Jessie Street and the Jessie Street Women's Library, 1943-1989, the National Foundation for Australian Women, 1990-1994, the Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing in 1978 and subsequent Ananda Marga conspiracy case, 1978-1991

BOX 1
National Foundation for Australian Women membership list for 1990, National Foundation for Australian Women New South Wales Branch membership list for 1991, National Foundation for Australian Women 'Broadside' newsletter questionnaire for membership survey, 1992, National Foundation for Australian Women folder for the National Women's Conference, 1990, National Foundation for Australian Women 'Broadside' newsletter, November 1989 to May 1994.

BOX 2
National Foundation for Australian Women Coordinating Committee minutes and correspondence, 1990-1993, vol. 1

BOX 3
National Foundation for Australian Women Coordinating Committee minutes and correspondence, 1990-1993, vol. 2

BOX 4
National Foundation for Australian Women Coordinating Committee miscellaneous documents, 1990-1993

BOX 5
Jessie Street's monogrammed bound original copy of the 'Australian Woman's Charter 1943' signed by the participants of the Australian Women's Conference 19-22 November, 1943. Jessie Street's monogrammed bound original copies of the 'Australian Women's Digest Vol. 1, no.s 1-12 (signed by some of the contributors), Vol. 2 and Vol. 3. Photograph of Jessie Street with Miss Shu-Ling Zung (China) drafting a resolution at the Second Session of the Status of Women Commission at Lake Success, New York, in January 1948. Photograph of Jessie Street drafting a resolution at the Second Session of the Status of Women Commission at Lake Success, New York, in January 1948, with a cigarette hanging from the corner of her mouth. Signed photograph of Jessie Street taken at the Conference for Essential Social Services 18-19 June 1934 with Dame Enid Lyons and other participants. Articles written by and about Jessie Street and material relating to the formation of the Jessie Street Women's Library.

BOX 6
Personal papers of Irina Dunn relating to the Jessie Street Centenary Committee, 1989

BOX 7
Papers and photographs related to the 1978 Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing and Ananda Marga conspiracy case and the campaign exposing the frame-up of Tim Anderson (CEFTA), 1978-1991. Also includes court transcripts, photocopies of Hansard, and transcripts from television programs and interviews related to the case against Anderson.

BOX 8
Academics for Justice, including newsclippings, notes, reports, correspondence, publicity material, newsletters, journal articles, photocopies of newspaper articles, annotated draft copy of 'Conspiracy' by John Jiggens and printed copy of 'The incredible exploding man. Evan Pederick & the trial of Tim Anderson', 1991.

BOX 9
Printed copies of 'The prison struggle' by George Zdenkowski and David Brown, 1982, 'Wilful obstruction' by Tony Vinson, 1982, 'Walled garden, poems from NSW prisons', 1978, 'Im not for Women's Lib but', 1976, 'Legal Resources Book (NSW), 1978, 'Report of Royal Commission into N.S.W. Prisons', 1978, 25 metal political lapel badges, 1960-1990

BOX 10
'A natural legacy' correspondence, 1977, 'The true story of Rum Jungle' university lecture, 1990. Various printed comic books, ca. 1960-1980, including issues of 'Matilda', 'Barry McKenzie', 'Freak Brothers' and 'Zap'.

BOX 11(X)
Printed copies of 'Time & Life' newspaper of prisoners of New South Wales jails, 1977, 'In Jail Print News', 1977-1980

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Copyright status:Public domain

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