Item 02: New South Wales election campaign records for State Elections and State By-elections, 1990 to 2011.

MLMSS 9709/Boxes 17-28

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1990-2011

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2 metres of textual material (12 boxes) - manuscript - printed ;

New South Wales election campaign records for State Elections and State By-elections, 1990 to 2011.

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.

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Folder 1: Nuclear Disarmament Party. Colin Charlton and Dennis Wyatt lead candidates. 1998.

Folder 2: State By-election for Granville, 1990.

State General Election, 1991. Ian Cohen & Nerlich for Upper House. Geoff Ash for Vaucluse.

Folder 1: ‘The Greens’.

Folder 2: State election.

Folder 3: State election, clippings.

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Davidson by-election, 1992.

Folder 1: Contested by Ross Knowles.

Parramatta by-election, 1994.

Folder 1: Contested by Miranda Fitzgerald.

General election, 1995. Ian Cohen was lead Upper House candidate and won a seat.

Folder 1: Pre-selection. Cohen Group S.

Folder 2: Cohen file.

Folder 3: State Election Campaign Committee meetings.

Folder 4: State Election Campaign Committee, organisation and finances.

Folder 5: Media strategy.

Folder 6: Policies.

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Folder 7: Training, campaign kits.

Folder 8: ALP Forest policy.

Folder 9: Media releases.

Folder 10: National press clippings.

Folder 11: Surveys and allies.

Folder 12: Clippings, literature.

Folder 13: Literature.

Folder 14: How to Vote: preferences; opponents; referendum.

Folder 15: Prints and photographs of Greens members, unidentified.

Folder 16: Results.

Sutherland by-election, 1997.

Folder 1: Greens candidate, Joanne Lenton.

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State General election, 1999. Lee Rhiannon was lead Upper House candidate and won a seat. Scandals over deceptively-named micro-parties gaming the system and manipulating preferences led to electoral reforms.

Folder 1: Pre-selection and candidate Lee Rhiannon Group Q.

Folder 2: Policies.

Folder 3: Policies.

Folder 4: Policies and media releases.

Folder 5: Media releases, October 1998 to February 1999.

Folder 6: Media releases, March 1999.

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Folder 7: Surveys.

Folder 8: State Election Campaign Committee, National press clippings.

Folder 9: National press clippings.

Folder 10: Scrapbook of clippings.

Folder 11: Literature, advertisements, posters.

Folder 12: Opponents literature.

Folder 13: Other groups.

Folder 14: Organisation.

Folder 15: State Election Campaign Committee.

Folder 16: Campaign coordinator's binder.

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Folder 17: Finance and funding miscellaneous.

Folder 18: Public funding claim.

Folder 19: Lee Rhiannon file on various disputes and issues, and Ian Cohen.

Folder 20: Disputes, legal issues.

Folder 21: Literature, Greens and others, How to Vote; preferences; Group voting tickets.

Folder 22: Media releases; preferences.

Folder 23: How to Vote leaflets.

Folder 24: Group voting tickets.

Folder 25: Glenn Druery analysis; front party preference flows of Upper House.

Folder 26: Upper House and Lower House voting.

Folder 27: Upper House voting.

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Folder 28: Legislative Council voting.

Folder 29: Legislative Council voting.

Folder 30: Research Report 22 NSW election 1999, and State Election Campaign Committee Report.

State General election, 2003. Ian Cohen and Sylvia Hale led the Upper House ticket and both were elected.

Folder 1: Pre-selection and candidates, Hale and Cohen.

Folder 2: Candidates leaflets.

Folder 3: Policies.

Folder 4: Media and press releases, February 2003.

Folder 5: Media and press releases, March 2003.

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Folder 6: Survey responses.

Folder 7: Survey responses.

Folder 8: Advertisements and postcards.

Folder 9: Signs, Groups and opponents literature.

Folder 10: Advertising.

Folder 11: State Election Campaign Committee minutes.

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Folder 12: Donations and Loans.

Folder 13: Events and speeches.

Folder 14: How to vote leaflets.

Folder 15: Returns to Electoral Commission.

Folder 16: Results.

State by-election for Marrickville, 2005. Contested by Sam Byrne who got nearly 40% primary vote.

Folder 1: Sam Byrne file.

State by-election for Macquarie Fields, 2005. Contested by Ben Raue.

Folder 1: Ben Raue file.

State General election, 2007. Lee Rhiannon and John Kaye led the Upper House ticket. Lee was re-elected and John was elected.

Folder 1: Pre-selection.

Folder 2: Candidates leaflets.

Folder 3: Inner West campaign.

Folder 4: Policies.

Folder 5: Media releases, Newcastle Greens media releases.

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Folder 6: Leaflets.

Folder 7: Literature, advertisements, stickers.

Folder 8: Interest groups.

Folder 9: Opponents literature

Folder 10: State Election Campaign Committee.

Folder 11: Advertising contract.

Folder 12: Engaging staff.

Folder 13: ABC

Folder 14: Corflutes, signage.

Folder 15: Website design.

Folder 16: Gala Dinner.

Folder 17: Events.

Folder 18: Budget.

Folder 19: Preference negotiations.

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Folder 20: Registration of How To Vote.

Folder 21: Registration of How To Vote.

Folder 22: Posters.

Folder 23: Legalities.

Folder 24: Images on disc.

Folder 25: Review of campaign.

State by-elections for Cabramatta, Lakemba and Ryde, 2008.

Folder 1: Kristian Bolwell for Lakemba; Lindsay Peters for Ryde; Lindsay Langlands for Cabramatta.

State General election, 2011. David Shoebridge, Jan Barham and Jeremy Buckingham led the Upper House ticket and all were elected. Jamie Parker won Balmain. De Brierly Newton ran for Sydney, Mehreen Faruqi for Heffron, and Fiona Byrne for Marrickville - all unsuccessfully. Fiona's failure to win Marrickville was attributed to the GNSW 'BDS' policy: BDS, the ‘Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions’ campaign targeting Israel that was adopted by the state party as policy.

Folder 1: Lead organiser's file.

Folder 2: Pre-selection.

Folder 3: Policies.

Folder 4: Media releases and national press clippings.

Folder 5: How to Vote; Literature.

Folder 6: Candidates; Literature.

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Folder 7: Literature.

Folder 8: Interest groups; correspondence.

Folder 9: Opponents literature.

Folder 10: State Election Campaign Committee minutes.

Folder 11: Strategy and organisation.

Folder 12: Recruiting and training.

Folder 13: Reports and results.

Folder 14: Party room rules.

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