Item 01: New South Wales election campaign records for Federal Elections and Federal By-elections, 1983 to 2013.

MLMSS 9709/Boxes 3-17

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1983-2013

Textual Records, Photographs, Ephemera, Clippings

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2.50 metres of textual records (15 boxes), some folders contain photographs - manuscript - printed ;

New South Wales election campaigns for Federal Elections and Federal By-elections, 1983 to 2013.

Documentation covers pre-selection, employment of staff, campaign committee meetings and communications, strategy, preference deliberations, fundraising and budget, organisation and training of volunteers, media releases, media coverage, campaign leaflets, signage, advertising, how-to-vote cards, and results, reports after polling day.

BOX 3

Folder 3: General election 1983. Peter Garrett ran for the Senate for the Nuclear Disarmament Party, 1983.

Folder 4: General election 1987. Ian Cohen and Daphne Gollan lead Senate candidates for Green Alliance. Robert Wood and Irina Dunn were same for the Nuclear Disarmament Party, 1987.

General election 1990. Ian Cohen was lead Senate candidate for the Green Alliance.

Folder 5: Pre-selection, Green Alliance. Daphne Gollan.

Folder 6: Change of candidates due to attacks.

Folder 7: Organisation and preferences; finances and fundraising.

Folder 8: Issues and polices.

Folder 9: NPC, 1990.

Folder 10: Posters, election literature.

Folder 11: Opponents and allies; anger with The Wilderness Society.

Folder 12: Reports of results.

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General election 1993. Steve Brigham was lead Senate candidate for GNSW. Ben Oquist ran for Wentworth. Paul Fitzgerald ran for Grayndler.

Folder 1: Pre-selection of candidates; policies; polling; organisation and opponents.

General By-election 1995.

Folder 2: Wentworth seat contested by Murray Matson.

General election 1996. Karla Sperling was lead Senate candidate for GNSW and Fiona McCrossin ran for Wentworth. There was an issue over registration with the Richmond-Clarence Greens - one of the groups which challenged the legitimacy of the Australian Greens confederation of state parties, and there was friction with the Australian Democrats. 1995-1996.

Folder 3: Pre-selection and candidates, Sperling.

Folder 4: Federal Election Campaign Committee, 1995-1996, including Richmond-Clarence registration problems.

Folder 5: Organisation, strategies and preferences, fundraising event.

Folder 6: Policy.

Folder 7: Media Releases & WPC, friction and demonstrations, preference implications.

Folder 8: Surveys.

Folder 9: Literature and advertisements, handouts from Greens and other political parties.

Folder 10: Australian Electoral Commission.

Folder 11: Reports after the event.

Constitutional Convention, 1997.

Folder 12: Catherine Moore led the GNSW team calling for a Republic plus entrenched rights plus indigenous recognition.

BOX 5

General election 1998. John Sutton and Catherine Moore led the GNSW Senate ticket.

Folder 1: Pre-selection, Senate 1997.

Folder 2: Candidates lists and literature. Group U Sutton.

Folder 3: Western Sydney.

Folder 4: Central Coast.

Folder 5: Federal Election Campaign Committee, strategy, finance, preferences.

Folder 6: Organisation.

Folder 7: Policies, literature, signage.

Folder 8: Media Releases 1.

Folder 9: Media Releases 2.

Folder 10: National Press cuttings.

Folder 11: Opponents literature.

Folder 12: Australian Electoral Commission.

Folder 13: Correspondence and surveys.

Folder 14: Post postmortems etc.

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General election 2001. Kerry Nettle was lead Senate candidate, and won to become the first GNSW Senator. Jamie Parker ran for Sydney.

Folder 1: Speech notes and correspondence.

Folder 2: Policies.

Folder 3: Survey responses.

Folder 4: Audio-visual no. 1.

Folder 5: Audio-visual no. 2.

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Folder 6: Audio-visual no. 3.

Folder 7: Media releases and literature, handouts.

Folder 8: National press clippings.

Folder 9: National press clippings.

Folder 10: Organisation, fundraising, donations, preferences.

Folder 11: Sydney seats.

Folder 12: Minutes of the Federal Election Campaign Committee.

Folder 13: Fundraising and finance donations policy.

Folder 14: Strategy and polling.

Folder 15: How To Vote; opponents list.

Folder 16: Final reports.

Cunningham by-election, 2002. Michael Organ ran for GNSW and won, thus becoming the first Green to win a seat in the House of Representatives.

Folder 17: Michael Organ’s campaign.

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General election, 2004. John Kaye was lead Senate candidate, and Jenny Leong ran for Sydney. Michael Organ lost his seat in Cunningham.

Folder 1: John Kaye candidate.

Folder 2: Candidate pledges.

Folder 3: Policy.

Folder 4: Media releases; national press cuttings; surveys.

Folder 5: Media releases; national press cuttings; surveys. Jan 13 to July 27, 2004.

Folder 6: Media releases; national press cuttings; surveys. July 30 to Sept 9, 2004.

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Folder 7: Media releases; national press cuttings; surveys. Sept 10 to Oct 9, 2004.

Folder 8: Literature; advertisements, posters, CD’s, cassette.

Folder 9: Literature, postcards, advertisements, 2 videos.

Folder 10: Federal Electoral Campaign Committee minutes, February-October 2004.

Folder 11: Sydney campaign.

BOX 10

Folder 12: Organisation; recruiting; volunteers.

Folder 13: Fundraising, donations, budgets.

Folder 14: Local group electoral declarations of donations.

Folder 15: Preference declarations.

Folder 16: Issues research.

Folder 17: How To Vote information leaflets.

Folder 18: Opponents, How To Vote leaflets, Literature.

Folder 19: How To Vote leaflets.

Folder 20: Reports, results.

Folder 21: Michael Organ’s campaign, literature, preferences negotiations, tributes to Michael Organ after defeat.

Werriwa by-election, 2005.

Folder 22: Contested by Ben Raue.

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General election, 2007. Kerry Nettle was lead Senate candidate but lost her seat. Saeed Khan ran for Grayndler.

Folder 1: Pre-selection, candidates.

Folder 2: National Electoral Campaign Committee.

Folder 3: National Electoral Campaign Committee, strategy for advertising.

Folder 4: National Electoral Campaign Committee focus group.

Folder 5: Polling and research.

Folder 6: Surveys and issues.

Folder 7: Drugs policy.

Folder 8: National press clippings.

Folder 9: General national press clippings.

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Folder 10: Press clippings from local electoral groups.

Folder 11: Federal Electoral Campaign Committee minutes.

Folder 12: Federal Electoral Campaign Committee strategy.

Folder 13: Sydney and Grayndler campaigns.

Folder 14: Federal Electoral Campaign Committee management.

Folder 15: Federal Electoral Campaign Committee recruitment.

Folder 16: Media workers.

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Folder 17: Training.

Folder 18: Donations, fundraising, loans, videos.

Folder 19: Budget and donations video.

Folder 20: Events.

Folder 21: Literature, advertisings, posters, How To Vote leaflets.

Folder 22: Advertising videos.

Folder 22A: Advertising strategy.

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Folder 22B: Advertising strategy.

Folder 22C: Correspondence, Kerry Nettle re: advertising strategy.

Folder 23: Advertising videos.

Folder 24: Advertising CDs.

Folder 25: Advertising CDs.

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Folder 26: Advertisements, newspaper clippings.

Folder 27: Poster promotions.

Folder 28: Literature, advertisings, posters, How To Vote leaflets.

Folder 29: Opponents and allies literature.

Folder 30: Attacks on Greens.

Folder 31: Preferences.

Folder 32: Group voting tickets.

Folder 33: Images on CDs.

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Folder 34: Images on CDs.

Bradfield by-election, 2009.

Folder 1: Bradfield by-election contested by Susie Geell.

General election, 2010. Lee Rhiannon was lead Senate candidate, and won. Tony Hickey ran for Sydney.

Folder 1: Candidates, group I. Lee Rhiannon.

Folder 2: Policies.

Folder 3: National press clippings; Media releases.

Folder 4: Literature and advertisements.

Folder 5: Make believe advertising strategy.

Folder 6: Organising, How to Vote; results and final report.

Folder 7: Campaign literature.

General election, 2013

Folder 1: Cate Faehrmann was lead Senate candidate. Hall Greenland ran for Grayndler and Dianne Hiles ran for Sydney.

Annual financial returns to Australian Electoral Commission, 1993 to 2006. (2000-2001 missing).

Folder 1: Return for 1993-1994/5.

Folder 2: Return for 1996-1997.

Folder 3: Return for 1997-1998.

Folder 4: Return for 1998-1999.

Folder 5: Return for 1999-2000.

Folder 6: Return for 2001-2002.

Folder 7: Return for 2002-2003.

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Folder 8: Return for 2003-2004.

Folder 9: Return for Groups 2003-2004.

Folder 10: Return for 2004-2005.

Folder 11: Return for 2005-2006.

Restricted: Access requires written permission from Greens NSW. Contact: PO Box 366, Westgate, 2048. Tel: (02) 9045 6999 Email: office@nsw.greens.org.au, Expiry Date: 2035-12-31