Sub-fonds 2: Graeme Dunstan papers

MLMSS 8688/Boxes 1-20
MLMSS 8688/Boxes 21X-26X

sub-fonds

approximately 1973-2007

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Moving Images, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Musical Sound Recordings, Objects, Photographs, Oral Histories

413702

Digitised : Applies to MLOH 688

6.2 metres of textual and video cassette material (20 boxes, 6 outsize boxes)
7 audiocassettes (6 hr., 57 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Graeme Dunstan papers, consisting of labeled manila folders including reference papers, correspondence, photocopies, articles, notes, ephemera, photographs, printed and graphic material. Also includes video tapes of various festivals including Acquarius, Lismore, Byron Bay, Nimbin, Bondi Beach and notebooks, journals, diaries, slides and banners.

BOX 1
‘The Kids’ Catalogue’, by Johnny Allen, Greenhouse Publications, 1975, Festivals report for Community Arts Board Australia Council, 1980, Festival evaluation Community Arts Board, 1980, Community Arts and Festival Writings, 1979-1984, Skoolz Out – Reality Construction Company event, Murwillumbah, 1976, Nimbin correspondence, 1974-1979, Alternative Living Foundation, Duval Creek Workshop, 1974, Tharunka, 1966, Duntroon 30th reunion, 1995, Army records from Freedom of Information Request, 1982

BOX 2
Photographs – Annabelle and Silas, 1970-1972, Duntroon, 1964, Duntroon, 1961-1963, Essendon High School Magazines and Report Book, 1955-1956, Family photographs, 1940’s to 1950’s, Photographs – The Parliamentary Men – Stilt Theatre with Drums – Drama Action Centre, 1982, Marriage celebrant, 1988, Nimbin Silly Symphony Song Book, 1980, Daniel Webber, 1989, Phillip – Leisure Studies Advisory Committee, 1989, Trust Tours Project, 1989, Imaging Melbourne with Ted Hopkins, 1989, Jobs Search, 1988-1989, Papers and Proceedings of the Creative Australia National Workshop, 1989

BOX 3
Correspondence, 1989, Letters, 1987, Cultural Policy, 1986, The Queens Road Life, 1985, Peace Arts, 1985-1986, Victorian Tourism Commission, 1984-1988, Archives, 1985-1989, Celebratory thoughts, 1985, Correspondence, 1985

BOX 4
Various reports, 1985, Festival writings, 1984-1985, Move reports, 1984-1985, Minto New Year’s Eve festival, 1984, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 1989, Victorian Tourism Commission, 1987, Personal correspondence, 1988-1989, Project Ghostfisher I – Theatre On the Dole, 1983

BOX 5
Prohibition end, 1995, Bondi New Years Eve organizing, 1996, Byron Bay’s Magical Whale, 1996, Students and sustainability, 1996, Woodstock, 1996, Byron Bay New Years Eve Carnival, 1995-1996

BOX 6
Correspondence, 1995-1996, Family Day of Protest, 1995, Lismore Lantern Festival, 1994, Lismore Lantern Festival, 1995, Street Lanterns for Woodford Festival, 1994, Mens Business, 1993, Mens Stuff, 1994, Circle of Men, 1993, Bankruptcy, 1994, The Last Job Application, 1992

BOX 7
Images from events, 1992, Nimbin Mardi Grass, 1996, Nimbin Hemp Embassy, 1997, Nimbin Street Code drafts, 1998-1999, Hemp Embassy, 1998-1999, Events Management Centre University of Technology, Events Management Training, 1998, Parramatta, 1997, Critton Astras, 1997, Presentation James Cook University, 1997, St Leo’s Art and Science Orientation Week workshop, 1997, Australian Emergency Management Institute, 1997, Banana Festival, 1997

BOX 8
Project Re-Orientation, 1997, Various stuff, 1997-2000, Crime Prevention Major Public Events Conference, 1997, New South Wales Festivals & Events newsletter, 1996, Bondi Beach riots report, 1996, Managing Leisure Crowds Conference, 1996, Crowd Control Training, 1996

BOX 9
‘From Riot to Rio’ – report by the Magnificent Events Company, 1997, Bondi Beach, 1996, The Bondi Beach report, 1996, Bondi ’97 – the approach, Schoolies Sunshine Coast, 1997

BOX 10
Graeme Dunstan PO Nimbin notebook, 1975, Graeme Dunstan Cullen Street Nimbin notebook, 1975, Graeme Dunstan Cullen Box 22 Nimbin notebook, 1979, Graeme Dunstan 248 Liverpool Street Darlinghurst address book, 1981, Work journal of Graeme Dunstan Box 7430 Bondi Beach, 1996, , ACES Diary 1997, Work journal 2000 RMB 6074 Deep Lead 3380, Journal August 1998 – March 2001, photo collages 1986-1989

BOX 11
Journal of study tour of celebratory theatre in UK 1980, The Journal of the First Drug War – Freedom Ride - Books 1 and 2, 2000

BOX 12
Hemp Embassy notebook, 1999, The Journal of Graeme Dunstan started in Ballarat October 2004

BOX 13
Design Professions, 1997: Self Assessments, Dole and other correspondence, ca. 2000, HEMP Party – Aston by-election, 2002, Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM), 2002, Journal notebook, ca. 2000, Papers in folder, 2003

BOX 14
Unlabelled collection of papers, ca. 2000

BOX 15
Extensive collection of photographic prints and negatives, including images of protest actions, family and friends, ca. 2000 - 2007

BOX 16
Extensive collection of 35mm color transparency slides by Graeme Dunstan, ca. 1977 – ca. 1998

BOX 17
Extensive collection of computer discs (3.5 x 3.5 in.) Macintosh formatted, related to events produced by Graeme Dunstan, ca. 1977 – ca. 1998

BOX 18
Extensive collection of Compact discs and Video Compact discs, including personal digital photographs on disc, 2000 – 2007

BOXES 19-20 [Not available]
VIDEORECORDING
33 VHS video cassettes of festivals and events produced by Graeme Dunstan. Housed separately from the collection at MLMSS 8688. For enquiries about this material please contact Manuscripts Section. Include:
Aquarius Festival 1973 – footage from ABC-TV program GTK
Lismore Festival of the Arts 1977
Revelation of Saturns Rings – Project Ghostfisher 1983
WHOSE ROADS? Produced by VicRoads, 1990
Couchman in Nimbin, 1992
Couchman community interview in Nimbin Hall
Aquarius Revisited – ABC-TV 7.30 Report, 1993
Fire in the Belly and the Green Man – Northern Rivers Mens Network, 1993
Maleny ’93 Fire Event – Meleny Folk Festival 1993
Wildmen gatherings by Robert Bly
Lantern Parades – Lismore Lantern Festival 1994, Maleny Folk Festival 1993-1994
Graeme Dunstan - Lismore Lantern Festival 1994, Maleny Folk Festival 1993-1994
Lismore Lantern Festival 1994, Maleny Folk Festival 1993-1994
Canberra Eco-Tech Festival December 1994
Lismore Lantern Festival 1994, Maleny Folk Festival Fire Event – William Goode footage, 1994
Angel Lanterns - Maleny Folk Festival 1993-1994 – Byron Festival 1995
Byron Bay 1994
Lismore Lantern Festival 1995
Rivers of Light - Maleny Folk Festival 1995
Lismore Lantern Festival 1995
Nimbin Mardi Grass, 1995
Nimbin Mardi Grass, “Let it Grow”, 1995
Byron Bay New Years Eve 1995-96 – Tape 2, Beauty and the Beast Pantomime
Byron Bay New Years Eve 1995-96 – Tape 7, Old Man Time parade and erection
Byron Bay New Years Eve 1995-96 – Tape 8, the burn, Graeme interview
1996 Bondi Beach Good Tide Carnival New Years Eve
From Riot to Rio – the Transformation of the Bondi Beach riots, 1995-1996
Portrait of a Town, directed by Oren Siedler
Save Big Hill Lantern Night, 1998
Mardi Grass 2000 by Ah This Productions
Lismore Lantern Festival 1994
Graeme Dunstan Lantern ABC radio interview, 1995
25th Aquarius Interview, 1998
Housed separately from the collection at MLMSS 8688/19-20. For enquiries about this material please contact Manuscripts Section.

BOX 21X
Dorrigo Dance Workshop, 1975, Photographs, 1965-9173, Graeme Dunstan self portrait, oil on board, 1965, black cotton screen printed banner of the Theatre of Social Action (designed and produced by Graeme Dunstan, 1993), white cotton screen printed banner of the North Coast Music Industry Association designed and produced by Graeme Dunstan, 1993)

BOXES 22X - 26X
18 large hand painted or screen printed banners and flags of Peacebus.com including:
TOSA – Theatre of Social Action flag, 1992
End the Drug War / Release the Prisoners, ca. 2000
Freedom Ride, 2000
Freedom Ride Banners (4), 2000
Viva Timbarra!, 2001
Viva Timbarra! (2), 2001
No More Drug War Jails, 2002
No Racism! No War!, ca. 2003
No Racism! No War! (2) ca. 2003
Let Compassion Rule, ca. 2002
Another World is Possible, ca. 2003
Bring Hicks Home, 2007
Sydney APEC, 2007

SOUND RECORDINGS:
File 01: Graeme Dunstan sound recordings (Call Number MLOH 688)

Access via appointment - Applies to Boxes 19-20

In copyright:
Reproduction Restricted:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017 of the Library's oral history collections.

Earlier accessions of Graeme Dunstan's papers are located at ML MSS 5057 ADD-ON 1916/36-39 and MLMSS 5057 ADD-ON 2059/19-21.