Collection 3: Tony Maniaty further papers, 1972-2019

MLMSS 11901
SLIDES 387
DC 105/1-34
3 Posters

sub-fonds

1972-2019

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Posters, Cartographic Materials

9657103

3.1 metres of textual material (15 boxes, 1 outsize item)

Box 1

Speeches delivered by Tony Maniaty – General 1

Folder 1
‘Brisbane Boys’ Somerset Literary Festival, 1993?
Launch of ‘All over the Shop’, 1993
Launch of Nick Kyriacos’ book, 1999?
St Spyridon College Poetry Awards speech, 1994
Brisbane Grammar, ca. 1994
Greek Literary Night: NSW Writers Centre, ‘Time, Place and Identity’, 3 April 1996
‘Is Journalism a good day job for a Writer?’, Carnivale, 2001
‘Occupation: Reporter’, ca. 2000, Sydney
‘The changing role of war correspondents in Australian Television news and current affairs coverage of two major conflicts: Vietnam (1965-1975) and Iraq (2003-2005), presented to “Journalism after September 11” conference, September 2005
‘Command and Control: How the Media and the Military are Reshaping Televised Coverage of War’, delivered to “Democracy at the Crossroads”, Prato, Italy September 2005
‘From Vietnam to Iraq: Negative Trends in Television War Reporting’ presented at “Public Right to Know Conference”, UTS Sydney, November 2007
‘I Go with Custer, and Will be at the Dish’: Negative Trends in Television War Reporting’ UTS, Sydney, November 2007

Folder 2
‘The Road to Albuquerque’ presented to the NSW Country Press Association, October 2008
‘Celebrity Nights, Rights’ presented to the “Public Right to Know Conference”, 2008
‘Television at War: The Lesson of Balibo’ presented to the Lowy Institute for International Relations, August 2009
Danish Cartoon Crisis, Sydney Media Censorship seminar, 2009
‘TV News future”, UTS Seminar, 2009
‘Dead Pixels: Photojournalism and Photo manipulation in conflict’ panel discussion moderated by Maniaty at Reportage, Session 1, October 2008
'The Camera and the damage Done: Life and Death in the Hot Zone’ panel discussion moderated by Maniaty at Reportage, Session 2, October 2008
‘Shooting Balibo’ address by Tony Maniaty at the National Library of Australia, July 2009
‘War Reporting, International Humanitarian Law and the Legacy of Balibo’ address by Maniaty at Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University, October 2009

Folder 3
‘War Reporting’ main speech delivered by Maniaty at the Auckland University of Technology, 2010
‘They’re Coming In!: The Day when TV News Coverage of War changed Forever’ at Reportage, 2010
‘War: The Way we see It’, UTS seminar, 2010
‘Necessary Approximations’ UTS seminar, September 2010
‘Intro TV News’, UTS seminar, 2011
‘Reporting on Conflict – At Home and Abroad’, draft speech for Walkleys forum, 2011
‘Stendahl and the Demands of Immediacy’ Lit Fiction ’13 conference, Istanbul, 2013
A tribute to Professor Alan Knight, delivered at his Memorial service by Maniaty, 2017
ASA Awards ceremony, November 2017
‘Shooting Balibo’ at Educating the Future dinner, Kambala, Sydney 2018

Introductory Remarks by Tony Maniaty, 2008-2018

Speeches delivered by Tony Maniaty – General 2

‘The Road to Albuquerque’ presented to the Journalism Education Association, December 1997
‘Translations’ delivered at the Sydney Festival, 1997
Speech delivered to the Immigration Institute of Australia Annual Conference, Sydney, March 1998
Memorial speech for Andrew Olle, 2000
‘Gertrude and Alice Bookstore Breakfast’, 2010
New Zealand Press Awards, Auckland June 2010
‘Was Hiroshima Necessary?’, Sydney Writers Festival, 2012
Book launch ‘Detective Work’ by John Dale, Sydney, September 2015
Centre for Investor Education speech, Draft 3, Healesville, 2018
Centre for Investor Education speech, Healesville, 2018
Exhibition opening speech for Ed Douglas’ ‘On my Father’s Drawing Board’, Adelaide 2019
‘Building Customer Trust and Brand Engagement’ Conference Chair’s introductory speech, 2019
‘Media Crisis Management’ paper at ‘Building Customer Trust and Brand Engagement Conference’, 2019

Eulogies delivered at the funerals of Maniaty’s parents Phoebe and George, 2007, 2008

Box 2

28 Sony mini discs. 80 minutes

Patrick Watts of the Falklands radio station broadcasts as it is taken over, 2 April 1982, BBC Radio (DC 106/1)
Ron Steinman, An online Interview 22 September 1999 (DC 106/2)





Interviews for MA Thesis:
Hugh Lunn, 24 May 2005; (DC 106/3)
Andrew Swanton, 25 May 2005 (2 discs); (DC 106/4-5)
Peter Munckton, 25 May 2005; (DC 106/6)
Philip Koch, 27 May 2005; (DC 106/7)
Martin Gillam, 30 June 2005 (DC 106/8)

Interviews 2005:
Marcy McGinnis, CBS News, 12 September 2005; (DC 106/9)
Jim Murphy, CBS Evening news; (DC 106/10)
Kate Adie, BBC 14 September 2005; (DC 106/11)
John Stack VP News Gathering, Fox News, 14 September 2005; (DC 106/12)
Jeremy Bowen, BBC, 19 September 2005; (DC 106/13)
John Arden, Tiger Red Director, 27 September 2005 (DC 106/14)

Interviews 2006:
Geoff Thompson, ABC Australia (New Delhi), 8 February 2006 (DC 106/15)

Interviews 2007:
Ron Steinman, New York on TET (NBC 1968), 16 January 2007; (DC 106/16)
Ingrid Formanek, CNN Rwanda, 5 February 2007; (DC 106/17)
Stuart Hughes, BBC London, 19 February 2007; (DC 106/18)
Jeremy Bowen, BBC London, 19 February 2007; (DC 106/19)
Ingrid Formanek, CNN Ex-London, 20 February 2007; (DC 106/20)
Vaughan Smith, Frontline Club, London, 20 February 2007; (DC 106/21)
Chris Cramer, President, CNNI, London, 20 February 2007; (DC 106/22)
Yves Michel Dumond, Video Sans Frontieres, London, 21 February 2007; (DC 106/23
Tim Cameron, ITN London, 21 February 2007 (2 discs); (DC 106/24-25)
Andy Kain, AKE London, 21 February 2007; (DC 106/26)
Peter Arnett on David Halberstam, 25 April 2007; (DC 106/27)
Les Crystal, President MacNeill-Lehrer, 10 May 2007 (DC 106/28)

Notebook, Timor Leste, ‘The Lens in the Serpent’s Mouth’, 2008

MA Thesis material including correspondence, transcripts of interviews with war correspondents, original News Release, Office of Information, 3 June 1972; CD-ROM copy of thesis ‘Television and War’, 1972, 2003-2005

PhD Thesis, early edited draft ‘The Human Factor: TV Newsgathering in Times of Conflict’, 2012 (substantially revised subsequently)

PhD material including proposal, correspondence, 2005-2013

University lecturing at UTS and overseas lecture tours in Denmark and Russia includes correspondence, 2005-2012; two unpublished papers on globalization and conflict reporting

Box 3

Timor Leste (East Timor)

Papers relating to Maniaty evidence given to NSW and Australian Federal Police relating to the deaths of Brian Peters and the “Balibo Five” in 1975. Includes correspondence 1975-1976, transcript of interview held in Sydney on 11 March 1976, Maniaty witness statement to NSW Police 7 December 2006, copy of subpoena to give evidence to the NSW Coroner’s Court, 13 April 2007, Maniaty statement to AFP, 18 December 2009, notes and correspondence, 2009

Notes and correspondence with Major Mick Stone, former security adviser to President Ramos Horta on proposals to stage a Tour de Timor bike race, 2009

Timor Leste (east Timor) material including news cutting, correspondence, transcript of interview between Maniaty, Jill Joliffe and James Dunn, and Guido dos Santos, articles, 1985, 2008-2013

1 x DVD of Australian Story: ‘The President’s Man' (Mike Stone), introduced by Maniaty, 2009 (DC 105/29)

Material relating to the late Greg Shackleton including Shirley Shackelton’s (Greg’s Wife) criticism of Maniaty and his memoir ‘Shooting Balibo’. Includes correspondence between Shirley and Maniaty, photocopies of a notebook, copies of correspondence between Greg Shackleton’s girlfriend Maddy Feller and mother Shonny Dryden, papers relating to the death of Olwyn Dryden, copies of The Dili Weekly, 2008, photograph of Fretlin Chris Santos, Dili, East Timor, 1975 taken by Tony Maniaty

‘The Lens in the Serpent’s Mouth: A Cinematic Journey through East Timor’ containing photographs taken by Tony Maniaty during production of ‘Balibo’ in 2008

Box 4

Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)

ABC general notes and correspondence, 1998-2011. Maniaty rejoined ABC news in 1996 and resigned in 2000, holding key roles including Senior Adviser, Policy and Program Development, News and Current Affairs

ABC ‘The 7:30 Report’. Maniaty was executive producer of this program 1996-1997. Includes correspondence with critics
ABC Policy and Planning. Maniaty served in 1997-2000 as ABC’s senior policy adviser in news and current affairs, focusing on shaping news broadcasting into the digital era. Includes policy papers relating to future developments, threats, televised political debates, the future of news radio, and datacasting, 1997-1999

‘News in America: A survey of television news trends in the United States and their application to ABC News output’ Tony Maniaty, September 1998

Policy papers relating to future developments, address to new recruits, ABC/Telstra, presentation slides, draft speeches for Brian Johns, Managing Director of the ABC and datacasting, correspondence with Jennifer Cummins regarding BBC TV’s The Big Read, 2000-2004

Box 5

ABC storytelling

Maniaty served as story adviser and staff trainer across the ABC, his focus on ‘Australian Story’, which he helped develop. Includes workshop and seminar notes and papers, confidential analysis of several episodes of ‘Australian Story’, course notes, correspondence with Deb Fleming, 1996-2017

Freelance feature articles by Maniaty on travel, international affairs and assorted topics including collaborations with artist Tom Arthur, producing exhibition reading notes, 1983, 1987; Photographic essays on Flinders Ranges, 1988 (includes 37 colour transparencies - see Slides 387), 2010; the Mani region, 2009

Freelance articles by Maniaty on assorted topics including ‘Wales and the Writer: points and beyond, 1974 (unpublished), an open letter from Paris, 4 February 1989 (manuscript); ‘Getting Published’, 1990; ‘Games of memory and Chance: How to write a Greek novel in thirty years, 1990; an article on French nuclear testing in the pacific, 1990s; ‘Rating with Dinosaurs, 1999, articles on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, an article on his return to Balibo in 2008, and Russia in 2012 (with photographs on CD-ROM) (DC 105/30)

Australia Council for the Arts

Maniaty was Communications Manager for the Council between 2003 and 2004 and was principal speech writer for CEO Jennifer Bott (and later for Kathy Keele) and Chairman David Gonski (and later for James Strong) between 2003 and 2006.

Speeches and correspondence, 2003-2006

General material relating to Maniaty’s role as Communications Manager and Acting Director, Strategy, including draft press releases, correspondence, and consultancy contract, 2003-2006

Box 6

Maniaty Media (now Mediatettix) material including notes on starting up, work with clients including the Reserve Bank of Australia, copy of training manual. Includes a notebook with manuscript notes of quotes from David Gonski on his life, 2004-2007

University of New South Wales

Speech drafts by Maniaty for Vice Chancellor Professor Ian Jacobs, 2016-2017
Opinion pieces written by Maniaty for Vice Chancellor Professor Ian Jacobs, 2016-2017
General papers and correspondence relating to Maniaty’s role as Senior Media Adviser to Vice Chancellor Professor Ian Jacobs, 2016-2017

Box 7

‘The Conduct of Arrows’


Material relating to a novel by Maniaty set in the slums of Rio de Janeiro in 1962 including scene planning books, casting of characters based on leading actors, and a bound copy of first draft novel, correspondence, 1989-2015

Box 8

‘Blue Danube’

Unpublished, 901 page draft of “Blue Danube’ set in United States and Hungary. Includes storyboard, working notes and research photographs taken by Maniaty in New York and on Route 22, 2000-2001

Box 9

‘Shooting Balibo’

Notes and correspondence between Maniaty and Penguin publisher Ben Ball, book editor Michael Nolan and Penguin publicity staff during the production of the book to coincide with the release of the feature film ‘Balibo’ starring Anthony LaPaglia, June 2008-August 2011

Correspondence between Maniaty and ’Balibo’ film director Robert Connolly, including his initial, negative response to Maniaty’s book (later revised), August 2008-May 2009

Email correspondence in reaction to publication of the book. Includes some concerns regarding conflict with the re-issue of Jill Joliffe’s Timor book, on which the film ‘Balibo’ was based, 2006, August 2008-March 2010

Raw copy from first draft writing with extensive manuscript edits. Much of this material did not make it into the final draft

Maniaty’s copy of bound master draft of ‘Shooting Balibo: Blood and memory in East Timor, Tony Maniaty v2 TS, January 2009

1 CD-ROM of early manuscript (DC 105/31)

Box 10

‘The Savage Eye: The House before the world’

Following completion of his Masters degree in 2006 into TV coverage of war, and his preliminary studies into the psychology of war reporting for hi PhD, Maniaty began writing a non-fiction work, ‘The Savage Eye: Television at War’.

Writing plan, correspondence with interviewees worldwide, 2005-2010

Email correspondence with agents in New York relating to selling the book including Paul Cirone, Gary Morris, November 2006-November 2007

Extensive book proposal including sample chapters, 2006

‘The House Before the Nation’ book 1 in The Cargo of Time Trilogy draft

Correspondence, manuscript notes on the novel, editorial notes by Deb Adelaide

Planning charts, story boards and timeline

Box 11

Smyrna : a novel / Tony Maniaty Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Books, 1989

Maniaty’s second novel which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Includes the original, final manuscript, and a copy of the Greek translation of ‘Smyrna’ by John Vasilakakos, published in Athens (Odysseus Press, 2013)

Box 12

‘Balibo’ (2009) directed by Robert Connolly
Maniaty was advisor on production of the feature film ‘Balibo’. Includes a copy of the script with John Maynard’s location notes, Bob Cousins’ Timor album featuring photocopied maps and photographs of Darwin, Dili and Balibo from the 1970s, cast lists, call sheets and correspondence, ephemera, media kits containing 2 multimedia DVDs (DC 105/32-33), 6 small notebooks containing raw interview notes, 2008-2011

Box 13

‘Warco’
Material relating to developing the 'Warco [war correspondent] Media Game’, a video training game that exposes young journalists to the danger of reporting in war zones. Papers include emails, sample photography, mockups, and development of the game to the proof of concept stage, including a sample DVD (DC 105 34), and associated promotional material, 2008-2012

Box 14

‘The Ruins’
Maniaty and director Peter Andrikidis have maintained a long professional association. In 2016 they began collaborating on a feature file ‘The Ruins’. Material includes initial story outline, one page synopsis, a feature film treatment, development plan, concept images, correspondence, and story board, 2015-2016 (unproduced)

‘All over the Shop’
Feature film and television series based on Maniaty’s 1993 memoir of a Greek- Australian childhood. Includes proposal for a television series by Maniaty, 1993; a proposal for a television series, 1994, and a film treatment, 1994. Includes a response to external readership report from the New South Wales Film and Television Office (now Screen NSW), 1996 (unproduced)

‘The Sand Fort’
Draft film treatment by Robert Hemley and Tony Maniaty of Hemley’s book ‘Do-over’, February 2011 and subsequent correspondence between the writers, 2011 (unproduced)

‘Snakes and Ladders’
Feature film script by Maniaty based on ‘All over the Shop: Voices of a Nation', 2000

Unproduced film and television projects including ‘Smyrna’, ‘Artists to Amazon’, ‘Marvelous Empires’, ‘Alpha Gauge’, ‘The Proofreader’s Illusion’, ‘Three Sixty’, ‘Cyclops,’ ‘Schaeffer’, ‘Confidential’, ‘The Sun and the Moon’, ‘Love and Death’, ‘The Europeans in the Pacific’, ‘The Little Gods Tremble’, ‘Dead Republic’, ‘Generation’ and other undeveloped concepts, 1990-2010

Box 15

Individual correspondence files

Nina-Maria Potts, journalist, Washington DC, 2012-2016
Victoria Haralabidou, Greek-Australian actress, 2015-2018
Susan Johnson, author, and former partner of Maniaty, 2004-2019
Helen Garner, author, 2009-2019 includes autograph copy of Garner’s ‘Yellow Notebook, Diary Volume I’ with annotations by Maniaty
Fiona McCrae, publisher, Graywolf Press, Minnesota, 2006-2018
Kirsty Gusmao, partner of Xanana Gusmao, former President of Timor Leste, 2014; Miscellaneous correspondence including from Jessica Shackleton, Owen Meeks, John Maynard, 2015-2016
Kerry O’Brien, ABC television, 2005-2019

Correspondence with literary and film connections, and close friends. 1985-2018
Filed in alphabetical order

File 1 correspondents include: Debra Adelaide, Peter Andrikidis, Australia Council, Benn Ball, Ron Blair, Jenny Bott, Margaret Connolly, Charmaine Craig, Glyn Davis, Jean Paul Delamotte, Markus Dohle, Jennifer Egan, Moris Farhi, Elizabeth Ferrier, John Flaus, Susan Golomb, Alan Gyngell, Chris Hammer, Robin Hemley, Margaret Jones, Edward Kutra, Angelo Loukakis, David Malouf, Sophie mason, Gary Morris, Claire Nicholls, Nick Pappas, Zia Rahman. Jan Sharp, Bruce Sims, Ben Strout, Will Todd, Ubud Literary Festival, John Vasilakakos, Murray Waldron, Joann Wallfisch, Jonathon Zwartz

Correspondence with literary and film connections, and close friends. 1979-2018
Filed in alphabetical order

File 2 correspondents include: Anthony Albanese, John Arden, Marta Carvello, Robert Connolly, Jean Paul Delamotte, Ed Douglas, David Gonski, Anita Heiss, Noel King, Angelo Loukakis, Amanda Maniaty, George and Phoebe Maniaty, Maxine Mckew, Veronique Melol, Gaven Morris, Annette Olle, Colleen St Ledger, Ralph Waters


Two posters issued by Penguin Australia in the 1980s, listing prominent Penguin authors of the era
One poster from Brisbane Warana Writers Festival, 1986 listing attendees Maniaty, Garner and others

English, Greek, Modern (1453- )

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