Joan Herlihy - Papers on provincial and local government in the Solomon Islands, 1974-1982

PMB 1190

fonds

441539

Microfilm : PMB 1190

microfilm reels 35 mm

Joan Herlihy was an adviser to the Solomon Islands Special Committee on Provincial Government which met in November 1978, shortly after independence. The Committee produced a report in January 1979, 'Decentralisation and Provincial Government: Solomon Islands', which was the basis for provincial and local government arrangements in the Solomon Islands for the next 20 years. Frustration with centralisation of political power in Honiara was a concern of the Committee and remains a concern in the Solomon Islands, as indicated by the civil conflict in 2000-2001. Dr Herlihys PhD thesis, Always we are last: a study of planning, development and disadvantage in Melanesia, was submitted at the ANU in 1981

The documents collected by Dr. Herlihy cover many aspects of Solomon Islands political and economic development from 1945 till the early 1980s, including employment, agriculture, shipping and other transport, communications, cooperatives and trade unions, but they focus on constitutional and administrative development at all levels of national, provincial and local government. They also include detailed documentation of the submissions to and the proceedings of the Inquiry into Provincial Government
Papers of the Solomon Islands Special Committee on Provincial Government, 1978-79, as follows: publications re development of provincial government in the Solomon Islands, including documents drafted by Jo Herlihy; files kept by Jo Herlihy as consultant to the Committee; West Council Papers; SCPG Background Papers, Nos. 1-132 (gaps); further unnumbered background papers and issues papers; summary of submissions; draft recommendations; SCPG agenda papers, daily summary, circulars and notes, etc.; notes; papers of SCPG Sub-committee on Honiara/Guadacanal issues; SCPG Minutes of proceedings; Recorded Agreements and Comments on Draft Recommendations; SCPG, Decentralisation and Provincial Government: Solomon Islands; SCPG, draft Provincial Government Bill
Also includes various other papers on local and provincial government in Solomon Islands; papers, publications and press cuttings on provincial government in PNG and Kenya, Zambia, Malaysia, Barbados, Fiji and the Philippines. See Reel List for details

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1190
Available for reference
Microfilm. Canberra, A.C.T. : Produced for the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University. 4 microfilm reels
Dr J. M. Herlihy, RMB 2000, Bungendore Road, Queanbeyan N.S.W. 2620
Printed reel list available (9 p.), and on the internet through http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu