James F. Staples further papers, 1957-2006

MLMSS 9062/Boxes 1-103

fonds

1957-2006

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Clippings, Ephemera, Photographs, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

411800

15.97 metres of textual material (103 boxes), some files contain photographs, audio and ephemera items - typescript, printed, manuscript

Justice James F. Staples is best known as Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission

Box 1
Includes correspondence related to legal issues (including housing), personal correspondence and clippings, a file regarding the Wendy Bacon decision and legal publications, 1970s-1980s

Box 2
Includes correspondence and papers by Clyde R. Cameron regarding the Labor and union movements, proofs of Laurie Aarons’ book ‘Corporate Cowboys’ and legal publications and clippings, mostly 1990s

Box 3
Includes correspondence and papers by J. F. Staples regarding taxation and industrial relations matters, correspondence and clippings regarding the M2 Motorway and Lane Cove Tunnel as well as legal publications, acts and clippings, 1990s

Box 4
Includes correspondence (much in support of J. F. Staples), legal publications and clippings, 1970s-1980s

Box 5
Correspondence, copies of acts, court transcripts and clippings mostly related to J. F. Staples’ work with the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, with some personal papers, 1970s-1990s

Box 6
Papers relating to Elio Cherini and Wendy Bacon, 1970s; personal papers relating to employment conditions as part of J. F. Staples’ work with the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1970s-1980s; personal correspondence and papers relating to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission 1970s-1980s; papers on Maurice Isaacs, 1983

Box 7
File regarding drugs (especially heroin) and the law, 1980s; files of varied documents, correspondence and clippings on industrial relations, Labor Party history, the Wik decision and other matters, 1990s

Box 8
Australian Labor Party Conference file, 1979; Arbitration conference papers, 1980s; file on principles of appeals courts; file containing varied papers and correspondence on industrial relations and arbitration; Labor Party history, memorial papers and papers by Clyde R. Cameron, 1980s-1990s

Box 9
Mix of documents, clippings and personal correspondence including industrial relations matters, letters to and from friends, ABC, NSW Council of Civil Liberties, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Humanist Society of NSW, police corruption, NSW Law Society and others, 1970s-1990s

Box 10
Four volumes of transcripts of speeches made by J. F. Staples, 1974-1986. Also includes copies of various industrial relations acts and published proposals of industrial relations law reform as well as press clippings

Box 11
Includes papers and clippings on the following, M2 Motorway, taxation, Georgist economics, copies of decisions made by J. F. Staples and his visit to Canada in 1977

Box 12
Documents, correspondence and clippings relating to taxation, the M2 Motorway and the Eastern Distributor, mostly 1990s

Box 13
File of correspondence, essays by J. F. Staples and clippings regarding taxation reform, late 1990s. Also includes documents regarding the M2 Motorway and published monographs on urban planning and the Australian labour market

Box 14
Contents include correspondence, invitations to events, clippings and ephemera on such issues as the union movement (CMFEU), industrial relations law, socialism, local conservation, environmentalism (Greenpeace), civil liberties, Neighbourhood Watch and how to vote cards from the 1990s

Box 15
Correspondence and documents relating to J. F. Staples’ non-reappointment to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission

Box 16
Mostly consists of reports, articles, correspondence and clippings relating to J. F. Staples’ non-reappointment to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission

Box 17
Includes editions of the Federal Hansard referencing J. F. Staples, 1979; J. F. Staples’ submission to the Joint Select Committee on Tenure of Appointees to Commonwealth Tribunals, 1989; transcripts of speeches and articles by J. F. Staples on the Uniform Defamation Bill, ‘Rocking the Foundations’ premiere, prisons in New South Wales, H. B. Higgins, ‘Combe, Kissinger, Duncan and Young – The Threat to National Security’, as well as copies of publications and clippings collected by J. F. Staples including a personally addressed copy of the first issue of Green Left Weekly

Box 18
Parliamentary and High Court papers regarding the Native Title Amendment Bill 1997; Report of the Joint Select Committee on Tenure of Appointees to Commonwealth Tribunals, 1989, as well as correspondence by J. F. Staples with others on the matter (including his non-reappointment), the Commission generally, as well as clippings and correspondence on this and other legal, taxation and political matters, 1979-1990s. Also includes transcripts of two speeches made by Clyde R. Cameron on economic matters in 1989

Box 19
Mostly consists of correspondence, documents and clippings relating to the Joint Select Committee on Tenure of Appointees to Commonwealth Tribunals (and J. F. Staples’ non-reappointment), sexual harassment law, Australian politics and Indigenous issues, especially with regard to the Wik decision, 1980s-1990s

Box 20
Mostly consists of publications, correspondence and speech transcripts by J. F. Staples on industrial relations, trade unions, Labor Party and criminal law matters, including correspondence with Industrial Relations Minister Peter Morris, 1980s

Box 21
Includes decisions made by J. F. Staples; Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission material and speeches made by J. F. Staples - some on the subjects of wool and human rights, 1970s-1990s

Box 22
Includes decisions made by J. F. Staples in the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and transcripts of speeches made by him on the David Combe case, wages, political economy and trade unions. Also includes pamphlets on a number of political and social issues, 1980s

Box 23
Includes copies of various industrial relations acts and correspondence and clippings mostly relating to opposition to the M2 Motorway and a second Sydney airport, ABC, the ‘No-Name Party’ and Pauline Hanson, 1990s

Box 24
Correspondence, documents and clippings relating to J. F. Staples’ non-reappointment to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and material on the Pat Mackie memoir, 1980s-1990s

Box 25
Includes files on abortion law mostly from the 1990s and a telephone message book belonging to J. F. Staples from 1983

Box 26
File of documents relating to J. F. Staples’ non-reappointment to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1980s. Also includes a file of documents, correspondence and clippings relating to J. F. Staples’ opposition to wage reform, police phone tapping and his non-reappointment to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1980s.

Box 27
File of documents and correspondence relating to the Dugan v Daily Mirror defamation case together with legal literature, 1970s-1980s. Also includes a file of court documents and clippings on the Maritime Union of Australia and Others v Patrick Stevedores Pty Ltd and Others case, 1998

Box 28
Includes mostly J. F. Staples’ personal papers and correspondence along with personal copies of legal monographs, 1990s

Box 29
File of personal correspondence including some photographs, 1990s, as well as monographs on Canadian and Australia law, 1977-1988

Box 30
Includes files regarding Telecom and the A.T.E.A., 1979; NSW Fire Service, 1987; a draft of a play by John Baker and personal correspondence on J. F. Staples’ professional and private interests, 1980s

Box 31
Includes papers and documents by J. F. Staples and others on arbitration, industrial relations generally, penal reform and J.F. Staples’ non-reappointment to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1970s-1980s. Also Includes correspondence regarding J.F. Staples’ non-reappointment and publications and clippings on a variety of legal and political matters, 1970s-1990s

Box 32
Various papers, correspondence and clippings including 6 chapters of a work in progress on Australian history mailed to Mr and Mrs Staples for their opinions; papers by J. F. Staples, Michael Kirby and Clyde R. Cameron on corporate crime, Dr H. V. Evatt, Trade Practices Act and the demise of the Industrial Relations Commission as well as published material and clippings, 1970s-1990s

Box 33
Various papers, correspondence and clippings, mostly relating to J. F. Staples’ non-reappointment to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and his remuneration. Also includes transcript of a speech made by J. F. Staples on the publication of the book, ‘Lionel Murphy: The Rule of Law’, 1980s

Box 34
Includes decisions made by Justice Staples from 1975 onwards as well as National Wage Case decisions from 1975-1991

Box 35
Includes papers and pictorial material regarding J. F. Staples’, ‘Improvements in stowable tower cranes’, including Letters Patent, 1964; J. F. Staples’ telephone message book from 1977; a paper by J. F. Staples’ titled, ‘A Tax Package: A Summary of the Left’s Position’, 1985, and a paper by George Petersen titled, ‘Remembers’., 1998. Also includes files regarding J. F. Staples’ concerns regarding Optus, The Lane Cove Tunnel and a proposed second Sydney Airport, 1990s and clippings

Box 36

Includes the following - British Passport issued to J. F. Staples in 1957; a telephone message book and telephone number index; a Christmas card sent by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser to J. F. Staples’ in 1976, featuring a photograph of himself and his wife. Also includes newspapers, pamphlets and clippings
Next selection originally 15 outisize boxes from 1992 accession

Box 37
Transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1979-1983

Box 38
Transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1983-1984

Box 39
Transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1985

Box 40
Includes file of papers regarding Occupational Health and Safety, 1970s-1980s, and papers relating to the National Wage Case of 1979

Box 41
Includes 4 files regarding standowns 1970s-1980s; finding of dispute in the Telecom case, 1980; a file titled, ‘Preference to unionists’ and a file regarding J. F. Staples’ position on the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1980s

Box 42
Includes a file regarding the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904, including Coalition Government amendments in 1982, and a file containing mostly clippings of J. F. Staples’ work with the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and industrial relations generally. Also includes an audio radio interview with J. F. Staples from the same time period

Box 43
Transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1979

Box 44
Transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1979

Box 45
Includes 5 files of professional correspondence from the period, 1982-1985

Box 46
Includes files of professional correspondence along with political party lists and material from the airline pilots case, 1979-1986

Box 47
Includes 3 volumes of articles and speeches delivered by J. F. Staples, 1979-1986. Also includes files containing invitations to functions and material relating to his non-reappointment to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1980s

Box 48
Transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1979-1980

Box 49
Transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1980

Box 50
Transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1980-1982

Box 51
Transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1982-1986

Box 52
Includes files of documents and clippings relating to Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission cases, especially the Albany Wool Stores v Federated Storemen and Packers case and National Wage Cases of the early 1980s

Box 53
Includes files on the Postal Workers 36 ¾ hour week negotiations, Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission documents and clippings of related cases as well as files on technological change and work, late 1970s-1980s


Box 54
Files on commission cases and arbitration law generally and a proposed Human Rights Act, 1970s-1980s

Box 55
Various Industrial Relations publications from the 1980s

Box 56
Various Industrial Relations publications from the 1980s

Box 57
Office of the Industrial Registrar, Information Services Branch, Daily Press Cuttings, 1988-1990

Box 58
Office of the Industrial Registrar, Information Services Branch, Daily Press Cuttings, 1988-1990

Box 59
Files containing material on the possibility of mini-bus services to Lane Cove, conservation in Sydney, ABC, central wage fixation and industrial relations generally as well as copies of The outlet, 1980s

Box 60
Includes pamphlets on civil liberties, environmental issues and copies of trade union directories, 1980s

Box 61
Office of the Industrial Registrar, Information Services Branch, Daily Press Cuttings, 1989 and copies of Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission Decisions Summary, 1990

Box 62
Office of the Industrial Registrar, Information Services Branch, Daily Press Cuttings, 1989-1990

Box 63
Includes 2 of J. F. Staples’ phone message books covering the years, 1979-1983, and 3 personal note books from the 1980s. Also Includes copies of Australian industry Awards lists and Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission reports from the 1970s-1980s

Box 64
Includes J. F. Staples’ professional diaries from the years, 1979-1984

Box 65
5 volumes of notes of J. F. Staples’ court case times and dates, 1979-1984

Box 66
Includes files regarding the Women’s Legal Centre and the Feminist Legal Action Group, 1980s. Also includes a file regarding the Sixth National Conference of Labor Lawyers, 1984 and pamphlets on women’s causes, civil liberties and transport from the 1980s.

Box 67
File of documents, pamphlets, clippings and correspondence regarding defamation law, 1980s

Box 68
Includes a file on the late Mervyn Leslie Rutherford and his estate and a file regarding a proposed Human Rights Bill, mid- 1980s

Box 69
Includes files on occupational health and safety and legal cases as well as reports of The Food Preservers’ Union of Australia, 1980s

Box 70
Includes transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1970s-1980s. Also includes documents, correspondence and clippings regarding taxation reform and copies of The National Times

Box 71
Mostly includes material relating to National Wage Cases in the 1980s and other industrial relations matters, as well as a copy of the Postmen’s Manual

Box 72
Transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1979

Box 73
Transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1979

Box 74
Transcripts of proceedings of the Telecom case in the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1979

Box 75
Transcripts of proceedings of the Telecom case in the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1979

Box 76
Includes files regarding Lionel Murphy and taxation reform, 1980s

Box 77
Mostly includes papers and clippings on taxation reform and the Seventh National Conference of Labor Lawyers, 1985

Box 78
Mostly includes papers and clippings on taxation reform, including Georgist alternatives, 1980s

Box 79
Includes a list of organisations of employers registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in 1984, along with ephemera on industrial relations, nuclear disarmament and other causes of interest to J. F. Staples

Box 80
Mostly includes copies of periodicals collected by J. F. Staples’ in the 1980s such as The Communication Worker, Civil Liberty and The National Times

Box 81
Mostly includes copies of periodicals collected by J. F. Staples’ in the 1980s such as CAI News, Good Governance and The Australian Left Review, with some correspondence

Box 82
Office of the Industrial Registrar, Information Services Branch, Daily Press Cuttings, 1988-1990, as well as copies of periodicals collected by J. F. Staples’ in the 1980s such as those listed above with some correspondence
Next selection 12 boxes from 2007 accession

Box 83
Includes proofs of the Joint Select Committee on Tenure of Appointees to Commonwealth Tribunals, 1989, along with transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1970s-1980s and copies of The Hansard, Australian Bureau of Statistics Catalogue and clippings from the 1980s

Box 84
Mostly includes letters of support to J. F. Staples regarding his non-reappointment to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission from politicians, academics, political parties, trade unions, journalists, scientists and members of the general public, 1980s. Also includes transcripts of J. F. Staples’ John Curtain Memorial Lecture, 1981 and his National Press Club address on March 23 1989, along with press clippings

Box 85
Includes copies of full bench decisions made by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1980-1985; papers and speeches by J. F. Staples on public schools and taxation and poverty, 1980s, and letters by J. F. Staples to the Australian Government opposing Australia’s involvement in the Iraq War, along with press clippings on the issue, 2003

Box 86
Includes memorials to Bob to St John, 1998, and George Petersen, 2003 ; Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission correspondence, late 1980s-1990s and personal correspondence and clippings, especially relating to the Iraq War, American politics and culture and resources, 1990s-2006

Box 87
Includes files of personal and Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission correspondence on J. F. Staples’ dispute with the Communist Party of Australia, 1956; the Telecom case, 1979; J. F. Staples’ non-reappointment; the Albany Wool Stores v Federated Storemen and Packers case and other legal, political and social justice issues of interest to J.F. Staples’, such as the Iraq War and American imperialism

Box 88
Includes a compilation volume of early issues of the Sydney University Magazine and papers belonging to Dick Klugman, delivered to J. F. Staples after his retirement from parliament in 1990. Klug man was chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee that Reported on the ‘removal’ of Staples from office in the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission

Box 89
Includes personal and professional correspondence on arbitration cases (e.g. Telecom, Storemen and Packers), J. F. Staples’ non-reappointment to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, Wendy Bacon case, Miscellaneous Workers Union Chemical Industry (APS Operations) Award, NSW Bar Association and others

Box 90
Mostly Includes printed personal emails and articles downloaded from online sources on subjects such as the Iraq War and US/UK politics and foreign policy, 2004-2006

Box 91
Includes printed personal emails, articles downloaded from online sources, clippings and publications regarding the Iraq War, Pat O’Shane, civil liberties, conservation, humanitarian aid and other issues, ca. 2000-2006

Box 92
Includes printed personal emails, articles downloaded from online sources and clippings regarding the Iraq War, crime and punishment issues, The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, industrial relations and arbitration, conservation and environmental law and other issues, ca. 1997-2006

Box 93
Includes copies of periodicals, clippings, pamphlets and retail catalogues regarding Aboriginal justice, social justice, conservation, economics, Medicare, violence against women and other issues, 2002-2006

Box 94
Includes printed personal emails, articles downloaded from online sources, clippings and publications regarding poverty, labour issues and consumerism in the U.S. and Australia (including Workchoices); Iraq War; Sutton Hard Rock Quarry; conservation, water and other legal and social issues, 2002-2006
7 boxes from 1997 accession

Box 95
Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission decisions from the 1970s-1980s, on cases such as Telecom, Food Preservers Award, Plumbing Trades (Southern States) Award, Postal Services, Storemen and Packers, Journalists Award, Seamen’s Union and others. Also includes correspondence and transcripts of speeches made by J. F. Staples on a Human Rights Act, industrial relations reform, wages and legal issues, 1970s-1980s

Box 96
Includes files on taxation reform, the documentary film, ‘Rocking the Foundations’, a proposed Human Rights Act, along with transcripts of speeches and letters by J. F. Staples on political economy, industrial relations, wages, trade unions, broadcasting law, the cold war, defamation law and the Hawke government and civil liberties, 1980s

Box 97
Mostly includes clippings and copies of periodicals with some correspondence and papers regarding the Evatt Foundation; apartheid in South Africa; Greenpeace, BHP and oil exploration; the Guildford Four; periodicals from the Soviet Union and NSW Council of Civil Liberties, 1990s

Box 98
Includes clippings and copies of periodicals along with transcripts of speeches given by Clyde R. Cameron on ALP matters and the Petrov conspiracy, 1990s

Box 99
National Wage Case papers, 1970s-1980s

Box 100
Mostly includes clippings and copies of periodicals with some correspondence and papers regarding the ALP, NSW Council of Civil Liberties, Communist Party of Australia, Pauline Hanson, Hilton bomb victims and J. R. Marsden, 1990s

Box 101
Mostly includes clippings with some personal correspondence regarding the travels of friends, their legal difficulties, requests for references and political and social issues of interest to J. F. Staples, 1990s


Box 102
Mostly includes clippings and copies of periodicals with some correspondence and papers regarding national politics, ASIO, women in politics, Georgism and land tax in general, Iraq War, history of the labour movement, criminal justice and others issue, 1990s-2000. Correspondents include Clyde R. Cameron, Clive Hamilton and Bob Carr with a paper by Carmen Lawrence

Box 103
Mostly includes clippings and copies of periodicals with some correspondence and papers regarding the history of the labour movement, J. F. Staples’ plans for tax reform, women in the workforce, John Marsden’s defamation proceedings and social issues of interest to J. F. Staples, 1990s-2000
Box of computer disks (6) relating to business systems, norton utlities, PC tools, n.d.

VIDEO RECORDINGS
15 VHS cassettes and 1 Beta video cassette of interviews with Staples and speeches delivered by Staples, ca. 1987-2003.
Housed separately from the collection at MLMSS 9062. For enquiries about this material please contact the Manuscripts Section.
VHS cassettes:
‘ATEA country conference ’87: Mr Justice Staples: 1 hr 45 min.’
‘Justice Staples: address to ATEA/ATPOA 1987 country conference, Wodonga’
‘Interview with Geoff Sims and Justice Jim Staples, broadcast on 7.30 Report, ABC TV’; 25 Jan. 1989
‘Mr Justice Staples interview: A Current Affair,TCN9, telecast 3/2/89’
‘Staples i/v’: Mr Justice Staples interview: A Current Affair,TCN9, telecast 3/2/89’
‘Hindsight: The Party’s Over’, ABC TV, 1 hr 30 min., 29 July 1990
‘Mr Justice Staples, TV AM, Channel 7’, n.d.
‘Dateline 26/4/91’
‘Frame-up, Sydney Filmakers Co-op’, 48 min., n.d.
‘Staples attack’ ABC Film Editing Section, TX 16/10/90’
‘4 Corners ABC, 10 Mar. 2003’
‘More than a friendship’ Citizen Advocacy Northside, 7 min. 20 sec
Unidentified VHS cassettes (3), n.d.
Beta cassette:
‘Defamation’, Ex Sunday’ 11/7/93’

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