Gillian Fisher papers, 1970-1998

MLMSS 8878

fonds

1970-1998

Textual Records, Clippings, Graphic Materials, Photographs

949707

0.15 metres of textual material (1 box), includes 5 photographs

This collection chiefly documents Gillian Fisher's formative influence and involvement in the Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP), Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Action (PANDA) and the Nuclear Free Australia Party (NFAP).

Folder 1
‘Alex Carey’, including photocopied obituary of Carey, 1987, by Graham Williams; copy of eulogy by Ted St John; processed typescript of draft chapter, ‘Capitalist Corporations and the Management of Democracy’, by Carey; and photocopied chapter by Carey in Imagining the Real (1987), edited by Dorothy Green and David Headon

Folder 2
Correspondence with Senator Jo Valentine (Western Australia), 1985-1987, 1995, and Senator Irina Dunn (NSW), 1988, with copy of letter from Peter Garrett to Nuclear Disarmament Party members, 6 May 1985

Folder 3
‘Peace & Nuclear Disarmament Action (PANDA) and The Nuclear Free Australia Party (NFAP)’, 1970, 1984-1986, 1995, including notices and minutes of meetings, newscuttings, press statements, and Householders’ Handbook for Nuclear Warfare (1970)

Folder 4
‘The Nuclear Freeze Movement in US & UK’, 1985-1988, including correspondence and printed material

Folder 5
‘NFAP Minutes’, 27 Oct. 1985-15 June 1986, and annual report, June 1987

Folder 6
‘Letters and Interviews’, 1984-1995, including transcript of telephone interview by Fisher with David Lange, 24 Feb. 1995; transcript of interview with Graham Richardson, 19 Dec. 1994; and correspondence with, among others, Germaine Greer, 1984; Patrick White, 1984; Ian Cameron, 1985; Manning Clark, 1986; Jim Falk, 1986; Michael Denborough, 1984; Jim McLelland, 1986; Richard Tranter, 1984; Berry Dunston, 1985; Jean Melzer, 1995; Jo Valentine, 1985-1986; Ted St John, 1986

Folder 7
‘NDP Papers 1984-6’, 1984-1998, including correspondence with, among others, Janet Kenny, 1995; party newsletters, newscuttings, reports and transcript of interview with Peter Garrett, 30 Nov. 1994 and 22 Feb. 1995

Folder 8
‘Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) papers’, 1980-1994, including papers relating to 1984 Federal Election campaign; copy of Ed St John’s typescript diary entries, 23 Aug. 1984-Aug. 1985; notes by Janet Kenny on formation of the NDP, compiled 10 Oct. 1994; and 5 photographs of NDP office meeting, Sunday 20 Jan. 1985

Folder 9
‘NDP minutes 1984-85’, being copies of agenda and minutes of meetings of the Nuclear Disarmament Party (NSW Branch)

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