Collection 1: Richard Talbot personal papers as Director of the National Roads and Motorists Association (NRMA), 1990-2006

MLMSS 9587/Boxes 1-116

sub-fonds

1990-2006

Textual Records, Moving Images, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Photographs, Clippings

932032

18.5 metres of textual material (116 boxes), some boxes contain photographs.

BOXES 1-30
Legal records including copies of company records used as evidence, affidavits and transcripts of proceedings relating to 1994 Federal Court case opposing the demutualisation of NRMA (Fraser and Talbot v NRMA Holdings Ltd.) Includes records relating to fallout cases including mediation agreements, Talbot v NRMA Holdings Ltd. 1995; NRMA Holdings Ltd. v Allen Allen & Hemsley, Abbott Tout and Heydon QC, 1995-1996; NRMA Ltd. v Morgan, 1999
Also includes newscuttings and correspondence collected by RT relating to case

BOXES 31-50
Legal records including copies of company records used as evidence, affidavits and transcripts of proceedings relating to 2000 NSW Supreme Court case opposing the demutualisation of NRMA Insurance Ltd. (NRMA Ltd and NRMA Insurance Ltd, 2000). Includes correspondence received by RT from NRMA members in support of his opposition to demutualisation, ca. 2000 [Box 49]

BOXES 51-53
Records relating to Motorists’ Action Group including members registers, meeting minutes, photographs, press clippings, correspondence, financial records, ca. 1990-2006

BOXES 54-56
Newscuttings relating to NRMA demutualisations and RT, ca. 1990-2003

BOXES 57-87 (RESTRICTED)
Board papers of NRMA Ltd. and NRMA Insurance including meeting agendas and minutes, 1991-2006

BOXES 88-99
Newscuttings, correspondence and press clippings relating to conflicts of RT with other NRMA board members and management; correspondence relating to RT’s candidature with the Australian Labour Party; Motorists’ Action Group and lobbying government on issues relating to NRMA and roads; NRMA correspondence and company papers, ca. 1990-2006

BOXES 100-112 (RESTRICTED)
Records, correspondence and newscuttings relating to issues and conflicts involving RT and NRMA Board and executive, ca. 1994-2006
Includes papers relating to allegations over validity of directors’ election and newly proposed constitution 2003 [box 104]; RT’s removal as director 2006 [box 107]; proposed demutalisations and legal cases, 1994 and 2006

BOXES 113-114
Personal diaries, 1990-2006
RT correspondence with Labor Council N.S.W., 1990s [box 113]

BOX 115
Correspondence, newscuttings and legal records relating to defamation case against News Limited (Richard James Talbot v Nationwide News Pty Ltd, 2006), ca. 2002-2006

BOX 116
Correspondence and records relating to Motorists Action Group campaigns for NRMA board elections, 1989-1997

27 VHS tapes relating to NRMA and Richard Talbot, ca. 1994-2000, housed separately from the records at MLMSS 9587/Boxes 1-116
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Includes:
1. NRMA Ltd. “Share the future” [undated]
2. Tomorrow’s drivers: interactive excursion preview, 1994
3. NRMA SGM Tapes 1-4 [undated]
4. Red CT injunctions featuring RJ Talbot, 1994
5. [7 videotapes of various TV programs relating to NRMA featuring RT]
6. [5 videotapes of various television commercials produced for NRMA, 1996-1998]
7. Interview with Peter Corrigan, Acting C.E.O., 1995
8. Peter Corrigan acting CEO’s address to staff, 1995
9. NRMA CEO’s address, 1996
10. NRMA Board Elections [undated]
11. NRMA Competitive Partnering [undated]

Partly restricted: Applies to MLMSS 9587/ Boxes 57-87, 100-112

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