MS 802
Papers of H. C. Coombs



Summary

Creator: Coombs, H.C. (Herbert Cole), 1906-1997

Title: Papers of H.C. Coombs

Date range: 1918-1996

Reference number: MS 802

Extent: 15.39 m. (97 boxes)


Administrative Information

Access

Boxes 1-2, 8, 16, 18-36, 38-43, and 46-49 are closed or partly closed. See the folder descriptions for further details.

Box 48, Folder 377 (Christina Stead correspondence) requires permission for research.

Boxes 3-7, 9-15, 17, 37, 44-45, and 50-97 are available for research.

Provenance

The papers were donated to the Library by Dr Coombs and the executors of his estate in numerous instalments between 1976 and 1998.


Scope and Content

The collection comprises correspondence, reports, conference papers, research material and newspaper and journal articles, mainly relating to Coomb's involvement with the Aboriginal community and his support of many Aboriginal causes. Also included are papers produced while Coombs was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University, papers relating to the Australian Council for the Arts, personal papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, files of biographical material and correspondence with Christina Stead.

Arrangement

The 1996 addition (Boxes 50-96) was donated by Dr Coombs in three instalments during 1996. Many of the files are numbered and a list, compiled by Coombs’ secretary Mrs Ettie Oakman, was included. The order and numbering of these files has been retained in the arrangement of this addition, and Mrs Oakman’s list has been incorporated into the description of the papers. Several copies of books published by Coombs were included with these papers. Books held already in the Library’s general collection were discarded.

The following acronyms are used frequently in the description of this addition:

ANU Australian National University

CLC Central Land Council

CRES Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies

NLC Northern Land Council

The following is a brief synopsis of the subject matter of some of the groups of files:

Files 1.1 – 2.16 Aboriginal Children’s Heritage Project, 1978 – 93 (bulk 1978-85)

Files 12.1 – 12.3 Post-War Reconstruction, 1947-48, 1982

Files 13.1.1 – 13.1.9 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Housing Panel, 1976-84

Files 15.1 – 15b21 Aboriginal communities, 1975-94

Files 16.1a – 16b35 Aboriginal education, 1980-95

Files 19.1 – 20.1.7 Biographical material, 1934-96

Files 21.1 – 21.9 Aboriginal law and reform, 1976-93

Files 22.1 – 22.9 Aboriginal land rights, 1977-84

Files 25.1 – 26.11 Uranium mining, 1976-84

Files 27.1 – 27.134 Coombs’ writings, 1948-96 (bulk 1970-90)

Boxes 86-87 General correspondence, arranged alphabetically

Boxes 88 – 92 The CLC and the NLC, 1977-84


Biographical Note

Herbert Cole (Nugget) Coombs was born on 24 February 1906 at Kalamunda, near Perth and educated at Perth Modern School, the University of Western Australia and the London School of Economics.

1931 5 December, married Mary Ross

1934-38 Assistant Economist, Commonwealth Bank

1939 Economist, Commonwealth Treasury

1942 Director of Rationing

1943-49 Director-General, Department of Post War Reconstruction

1949-60 Governor, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

1951-60 Board member, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

1954-68 Chairman, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust

1960-1968 Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia

1968-1974 Chairman of the Australian Council for the Arts

1968-76 Chairman of the Australian Council for Aboriginal Affairs

1968-76 Chancellor of the Australian National University

1972 Australian of the Year

1972-75 Consultant to the Prime Minister

1975 Chairman, Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration

1976-96 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the ANU

1997 29 October, died in Sydney

References

Who’s who in Australia, 1997

Monash biographical dictionary of 20th century Australia (1994)


Container Description

Box 1 (Closed)

1-11 Personal income tax returns, 1936-1964

Box 2 (Closed)

12-18 Personal income tax returns, 1964-1971

Box 3

19 School and university records

20 Correspondence – C.S.I.R.O.

21-23 Miscellaneous correspondence

24 Personal correspondence – invitations to the end of 1968

25-28 A.C. Award, 1975

Box 4

29-36 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Box 5

Loose in box Appointment diaries, 1968 (2), 1969, 1970, 1971 (2)

Box 6

Loose in box Appointment diaries, 1972 (2), 1973 (2), 1974 (4), 1975

Box 7

37 Miscellaneous personal correspondence, 1960-68

38 Conferring of degrees, 1969

Miscellaneous personal correspondence, 1968-1969

39-40 Miscellaneous personal correspondence, 1970

41-42 Miscellaneous personal correspondence, 1971

43-44 Miscellaneous personal correspondence, 1972

Box 8 (Closed)

45 Arts – pre 1967

46 Arts – 1967-1968

47 Arts – 1969-1970

48 Arts – 1971

49 Arts – 1972

50 Arts – January-June, 1973

51 Arts – July-September, 1973

52 Arts – October-December, 1973

53 Arts – January-March, 1974

54 Arts – April 1974-1977

Box 9

55 Replies to farewell invitations, 1974

56 Arts – 1968 Cultural Mission

57 Arts – Australian Ballet

58 Arts – Historical T.V. series, 1975-1976

59 Arts – Press clippings, 1967-1972

60-61 Arts – Press clippings, Jan-Feb 1973

62 Arts – Press clippings, Mar-Dec 1973

63 Arts – Press clippings, 1974

64 Arts – Press clippings, 1975-1977

Box 10

65-73 Torres Strait

Box 11

74-84 Torres Strait

Box 12

85-89 Torres Strait

Box 13

90-101 Ditchley Foundation

Box 14

102-106 Ditchley Foundation

107-108 Ditchley Foundation, Club of Rome documents

109-110 Shorthand notebooks – various speeches and meetings

111-116 Shorthand notebooks – various speeches and meetings

Box 16 (Partly closed)

117 Old passports

118 Australian of the Year – congratulatory messages

119 Christmas cards

120 Cards sent by Coombs, Christmas 1972

121 Order of Australia, 1976 – Letters of congratulations sent by Coombs and replies

122 Pioneer awards

123 Memos, drafts (Closed)

124-128 Biographical material (some press clippings in folder 128)

Box 17

129-138 Press clippings, 1969-1975

Box 18 (Partly closed)

139-142 Press clippings, 1972-1974

143 Printed items

144-145 Council for Aboriginal Affairs – miscellaneous reports and letters, 1968-1975 (Closed)

146-147 Council for Aboriginal Affairs – visit to Arnham Land, April 1975 - report

Box 19

148-150 Travel

151-153 Invitations to speak

154-155 Other invitations

156 Research assistant

Box 20

157-162 Great Barrier Reef – correspondence, Royal Commission on Oil Drilling, reports, typescript and printed items

Box 21

163 Drafts, speeches, articles

164 Giblin lecture, 20 August 1969

Aboriginal Health – Royal Australian College of Physicians, 5 June 1969

165 Burnet Symposium – 15 September 1969 (i)

166 Burnet Symposium – 15 September 1969 (ii)

1 Quakers, 21st November 1969

168 Economics of the Performing Arts – Economic Society, 30 April 1970

169 Buntine Oration, 13 May 1970

170 Graduation Dinner, Ursula College, ANU, 7 May 1970

Article for The Australian – ‘Aborigines and conservation’

171 ANU Union Dinner, 2 October 1970, UNESCO Seminar Film and Television, 1 June 1970

Townsville meeting – Aboriginal Community Centre, 20 May 1970

Box 22

172 12th Pacific Science Congress – Part I

173 12th Pacific Science Congress – Part II

174 Matching Ecological and Economic realities, 23 August 1971

175 Charles Rowley, 14 September 1971

176 Opening of Annual Art Exhibition of Sydney University Settlement – Sydney, 17 September 1971

177 ‘Frontiers’ Photographic Exhibition – Melbourne, 12 October 1971

178 Pitjantjatjara Exhibition, 7 December 1971

179 Adelaide Festival Opening – craft opening, 3 March 1972

Box 23

180-182 Boyer lectures – Background papers

183 National Workshop on Aboriginal Education – priorities for action and research, May 1971

Decisions by Aborigines, Anthropological Society – (1) speech (2) questions and answers, 5 April 1971

184 Launching ‘Identity’, 5 July 1971

Henry Lawson Arts Festival, Grenfell, 12 June 1971

Aquarius, 15 May 1971

Box 24

185 Employment status of Aborigines, 6 March 1972

186 Sister Kate’s Home Appeal – Address, 19 July 1972

187 George Judah Cohen – Memorial lecture and notes, 18 October 1972

188 George Judah Cohen – Memorial lecture ‘The Future of the Australian Aboriginal’, 18 October 1972

189 Industry and the Environment Symposium (and Western Port Material), 21 October 1972

190 Travelodge Art Prize, 27 October 1972

191 International Book Year Seminar, 9 November 1972

192-194 Thermal Fluids Conference, Sydney, 6 December 1972

Box 25

195 ANU Student Health Association

196 ‘After land rights – what?’, 26 January 1973

197 ‘Ecological and Economic Man’, 29 March 1973

198 ‘The Young Kabbarli’ – launching, Sydney, 16 April 1973

199-200 45 Congress ANZAAS, Perth, 14 August 1973 – ‘Decentralization Trends Among Aboriginal Communities’

201 Blackman School, 1 September 1973

202 Prime Minister’s visit to Australian Council for Arts, 21 September 1973

203-204 National Press Club, 11 October 1973

205 ANU Master of Economic course, 15 October 197?

Box 26

206 Don Banks' 50th birthday, 23rd October 1973

Note for press conference, 11 February 1974

207 Peter Stuyvesant Trust Aboriginal Arts Exhibition – address, 18 February 1974

ANU farewell to David Hodgkin, 8 March 1974

208 ‘The Australian Aboriginal Heritage’, 10 April 1974

209-210 Water resources, 15 April 1974

211 University of N.S.W. – Conferring of degrees (Commerce), 8 May 1974

212-213 Walter Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 3 June 1974

214 Solander Exhibition – Aboriginal Arts, 13 August 1974

Speeches by Coombs and Dr Battersby on Coombs’ retirement from Australian Council for Arts, 28 June 1974

215 ‘Australian lawyers and social change’ – 23 August 1974

Box 27

216 Retirement from Australian Council for the Arts, 2 August 1974

217 Ninth ANU Union Art Exhibition, 1 September 1974

Chinese scientific and educational delegation, A.N.U. Canberra, 12 November 1974

218 Orientation Week, A.N.U., 27 February 1975

Radio ANU, 26 February 1975

219 System Seminar, 13 May 1975

220 C.C.P.S.O. Conference, 22 May 1975

221 Seminar to Open Government, University of N.S.W., 6 September 1975

222 ‘Man in Question’ – A.B.C. T.V. : N.S.W., AC.T., Vic (2 November 1975), Qld, W.A. Darwin (19 October 1975), S.A., Tas, (26 October 1975)

223 Elizabethan Theatre Trust News, September 1975

‘Mankind at the Turning Point’ – launching, Canberra, 14 November 1975

224 ANU conferring of degrees (valedictory), 23 April 1976

225 ANU subscription dinner (staff), 29 April 1976

226 ANU Council’s farewell dinner for Dr and Mrs Coombs, 13 May 1976

Retirement as Chancellor

Box 28

227 ‘The economics of the performing arts’, 30 April 1970

228 The Buntine Oration – ‘Human values in education’

229 UNESCO Film and Television Seminar, Melbourne, 1 June 1970

230-231 ABC Boyer lectures 1970 – ‘The fragile pattern: institutions and man’

232 ABC Boyer lectures 1970 – ‘The fragile pattern : institutions and man’

Opening of the Princess Theatre, Launceston, 16 November 1970

233 ‘Decisions by Aborigines’ – revised text

234 Grenfell Arts Award, 12 June 1971

235-236 Journal of the Economic Society of Australia and N.Z. – ‘Matching ecological and economic realities’

Box 29

237 ‘Preparation for retirement’, 21 August 1963

Launching Rowly Books, 14 September 1971

238 ANU News – installation of Dr H. C. Coombs as Chancellor, 6 September 1968

239 Giblin Memorial Lecture, 20 August 1969

‘Central banking – a look back and forward’

240 Burnet Symposium, Melbourne, 15 September 1969

‘Science and the future on man: the role of the social scientist’

241 Symposium at Sydney University on Arts policies, 24 February 1970

‘Arts Conference 70’ Wellington N.Z., 4 April 1970

Felton Bequest Symposium, 15 September 1969

242 ‘The economics of the performing arts’, 30 April 1970

‘Matching ecological and economic realities’, 23 August 1971

243 Annual Art Exhibition – Sydney University Settlement, 17 September

1971. Exhibition of work by the Pitjantjatjara people, Argyle Arts Centre Sydney, 7 December 1971

244 Australian Annals of Medicine – Burnet Symposium Issues

245 Address to the Australian College of Physicians on Aboriginal Health

Box 30

246 ‘The employment status of Aborigines’, 6 March 1972

247 Abschol Seminar, Canberra, 8 April 1972

Sister Kate’s Home, 19 July 1972

George Judah Cohen Memorial Lecture, 18 October 1972

248 Science and Industry Forum – ‘Industry and the environment’, 21 October 1972

Institute of Engineers Conference – ‘Thermal discharge – engineering and ecology’, 6 December 1972

249 First meeting of newly structured A.C.A., 16 February 1973

A.G.M. Wildlife Preservation Society of Qld – ‘Ecological and economic man’, 29 March 1973

250 National Press Club lunch, 11 October 1973

Opening Chiron College, Sydney, 1 September 1973

Search – ‘Decentralization trends among Aboriginal communities’, ANZAAS conference, Perth, 14 August 1973.

Meeting of the Arts Action Committee, Independent Theatre, North Sydney, 8 April 1973.

251 Walter and Eliza Hall lecture, 3 June 1974

252 C.C.P.S.O. Conference Melbourne, 22 May 1975, Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration task force on a regionally based Australian Government administration, 13 May 1975

253 Introductory remarks to staff seminar, R.C.A.G.A., 20 August 1975

R.C.A.G.A. press conference, Canberra, 29 May 1975

Message for 21st birthday of Elizabethan Theatre Trust News, September 1975

Launching of book Mankind at the turning point, 14 November 1975

Valedictory address, 23 April 1976

254 ANU Council’s farewell dinner for Coombs – retirement as Chancellor, 13 May 1976

255 ANU subscription dinner, 29 April 1976

The Chairman’s Oxometry Eliminator and Acronym Translator!

Box 31

256-257 Speeches

258 News clippings and speeches

259 Collection of quotations for use in speeches

Loose in box Collection essays and speeches of H. C. Coombs (3 vols)

Box 32

260-268 Miscellaneous correspondence 1972-1975

Box 33

269-271 Other people’s money – preparation material

272 Other people’s money – galleys, correspondence re royalties, etc

Speeches other than by Coombs

Box 34

278-281 Science and Industry Forum

282 Power Institute of Fine Arts

East Molesey Cricket Club

Sydney University Regiment

283 Industrial Relations Society

Australian – American Association

284 Oriental Society of Australia

285-286 Social Sciences Research Council/Aborigines Project

Box 35

287-290 ANZAAS

291 Britannica-Australia Awards

The Bankers Administrative Staff College

292 (NSW) Committee of advice on cultural grants

293 Commonwealth Fund-Harkness Fellowships

294 Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin

295 Craft Association of Australia

Box 36 (Partly closed)

296 Australian Humanities Research Council

Royal Canberra Golf Club

297-298 Howard Florey Institute

299 Howard Florey Institute (Closed)

300 Old Tote Theatre Club

301 Reserve Bank Clubs

302 Royal Agricultural Society

303 Sydney Opera House Appeal Fund

304 University of New England – Convocation Royal Society of Arts

Box 37

305 Australian Atomic Energy Advisory Committee

306 Australian College of Education

307 Australian Opera Auditions

308 The Bankers’ Club

ANU Performing Arts Council – Varsity Theatre Fund

Box 38 (Partly closed)

309 Aboriginal Affairs – miscellaneous, 1974 (Closed)

310 Council for Aboriginal Affairs - miscellaneous

311 Council for Aboriginal Affairs, 1972-1974 (Closed)

Australian Council for the Arts - miscellaneous

312 Council for Aboriginal Affairs – visit to Arnhem Land, April 1975 (Closed)

313 Council for Aboriginal Affairs – visit to Arnhem Land, April 1975 – Report

314-317 Council for Aboriginal Affairs – visit to Arnhem Land, April 1975 – Report (Closed)

Box 39 (Partly closed)

318 Aboriginal Affairs – confidential material, 1970-1974 (Closed)

319 Aboriginal Affairs – miscellaneous, 1973-1975 (Closed)

320-323 Aboriginal Affairs – miscellaneous, 1973-1975

324 Council for Aboriginal Affairs – miscellaneous visits to Aboriginal settlements

325 Gallery of Southern Man, 1969-1970

326 Gibb Committee, 1971

327 Office of Aboriginal Affairs File Register

328 Yuendumu and Hooker Creek

Box 40 (Partly closed)

329 ANU Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies – Working papers

(ii) Some aspects of development in Aboriginal communities in Central Australia

(iii) The application of CDEP in Aboriginal communities in the Eastern zone of Western Australia

(iv) The quality of life and its assessment

(v) The Pitjantjatjara Aborigines: a strategy for survival

330 Aboriginal Affairs – miscellaneous, 1968-1977

331-332 Aboriginal Affairs – miscellaneous, 1968-1977 (Closed)

333-334 Council for Aboriginal Affairs – land rights, 1971-1977 (Closed)

335 Gibb Committee

Box 41 (Partly closed)

336 Alice Springs

337 Articles, correspondence, transcript - miscellaneous

338 Australia Council for the Arts – Aboriginal Arts Board

339-340 Conditions of Aborigines on pastoral properties

341 Council for Aboriginal Affairs – miscellaneous, 1973

342-343 Council for Aboriginal Affairs – miscellaneous, 1973 (Closed)

344 Council for Aboriginal Affairs – miscellaneous reports, letters etc

345 Department of Aboriginal Affairs, WA Branch – background papers for Royal Commission on Government Administration

346 Papers for discussion with Sir John Bunting, 1973-1974 (Closed)

347 Turtle Project, 1974 (Closed)

Box 42 (Closed)

348-356 Aboriginal Affairs, 1970-1976

Box 43 (Partly closed)

357-359 Aboriginal Affairs (Closed)

360-362 Aboriginal Affairs

363 Aboriginal Affairs (Closed)

364 Draft statement for policy speech

365 Hooker Creek etc

366 Ranger Uranium, 1975-1976 (Closed)

367 Yuendumu and Hooker Creek (Closed)

Box 44

368-372 Speeches

Box 45

Loose in box Collection essays and speeches of H. C. Coombs (3 vols)

Box 46 (Closed)

Loose in box Minutes to the Prime Minister (2 vols) 1973, 1974

Box 47 (Closed)

Loose in box Economic conditions and prospects, 1973-1975 (parts 1 – 3 ) (Closed)

373 Inflation and National Wage Case (Closed)

374 Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Shipbuilding Policy, 1973 (Closed)

Loose in box Policy co-ordination Unit – referendum, 1973-1975 (Closed)

375 Task Force on Economic Policy and Formulation

Box 48 (Partly closed)

Loose in box Minutes to the Prime Minister (3 vols) 1973, 1974 (Closed)

376 Index to minutes to Prime Minister – 1972-1975 (Closed)

377 Correspondence between Christina Stead and Coombs, 1972-1982 (Added 24 February 1989) (Restricted)

Box 49 (Closed for 3 years after the death of Mary Coombs)

378-383 (Closed)

Box 50

File Number Title

Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Nhulunbuy (M.M. Brandl)

Secretary, Department of Aboriginal Affairs

Director-General, Community Welfare, Adelaide

Director-General, Department of Education, Adelaide

Chairman, SA Health Commission, Adelaide

J. Capp

Senator F.M. Chaney

Chairman, Central Land Council

Chairman, Central Australia Aboriginal Congress

M. Coleman

Director-General Community Development, Darwin

Director, Department of Education, Darwin

Director, Department of Aboriginal Affairs (DAA), Darwin

Director, Department of Health, Darwin

Director, Social Security Department, Darwin

Secretary, Department of Education, Canberra

Dr D.E. Edgar, Director, Institute of Family Studies

Rev. W.H. Edwards, Uniting Church, Amata

Dr J.A. Eedle, Planning Unit, University of Northern Territory, Darwin

Rose Gurupathan, Aboriginal Women’s Resources, Darwin

Gangan Project

Senator Margaret Guilfoyle

Gwyn Howells, Director-General, Commonwealth Department of Health

Mike Last: Ernabella

C.J. Schrosbree, House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs

Director-General, Department of Social Security, Canberra

Mary Scott, Department of Social Security, Canberra

1.28 Dr J. Von Sturmer

1.29 Dr S. Towndrow

1.30 Dr Nancy Williams

Principal, Yirrkala School

Chairman, Yirrkala Dhanbul Association

General correspondence, 1978-93

Address lists for A certain heritage, 1983

No file

Research grant: correspondence, 1978-84

2.4 Research assistant: applications (2 files), 1979

Box 51

File Number Title

2.5 Warren Snowdon: general papers (2 files), 1978-83

2.6 Dr M. Brandl: general papers, 1979-81

2.7 Warren Snowdon: transcript of interview, 1979

2.8 Peter Loveday: transcript, 1980

2.9 Advisory Committee meetings, 1979-81

2.10 ‘Progress’ reports, 1979-80

2.11 CRES seminar, September 1978

2.12 Maps and graphs

2.13 Draft sections of report ‘A certain heritage’, 1983-85

2.14 Final report: general papers, 1982-83

2.15 Notes of meeting held at the South Australian Education Department, March 1980

2.16 Pitjantjatjara Homelands proposal for educational excursion: introduction, June 1980

Box 52

File Number Title

3.1 Royal Commission into exploratory and production drilling for petroleum in the area of the Great Barrier Reef Report, Volume 2: comments by H.C. Coombs

3.2 H.C. Coombs, ‘Aboriginal Australians 1967-1976 – a decade of progress?’: paper for Murdoch Lecture, University of Western Australia, 1976

3.3 Address for the ANU Conferring of Degrees ceremony, 23 April 1976

3.4 H.C. Coombs, ‘The quality of life and its assessment’: paper for the 6th Conference of Economists, Hobart, May 1977

(v)0.1 Minority Rights Group: correspondence, including with the Director Ben Whitaker, 1977-80

(v)0.2 ‘Aboriginal Australians 1967-1977’: background papers

3.6 H.C. Coombs, ‘The Pitjantjatjara Aborigines: a strategy for survival’: CRES Working Paper HCC/1: 1977

Box 53

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3.7 H.C. Coombs, ‘The application of the Community Development Employment Plan (CDEP) in Aboriginal communities in the eastern zone of Western Australia’: CRES Working Paper HCCWP3: 1977

3.8.1 H.C. Coombs, ‘Aboriginal Australians 1967-77’ (revised): CRES Working Paper HCC/4: 1977

3.8.2 ‘Aboriginal Australians 1967-77’ (revised): background papers

3.9 H.C. Coombs, ‘Walpiri Land Claim’: CRES Working Paper HCC/8: 1979

3.10 ‘Energy and People’: note for opening address by Coombs at the Society for Social Responsibility in Science (ACT) conference, 1978

3.11 ‘Aggression and the Aboriginal Environment’: abstract of Coombs’ paper for the 2nd Austral-Asian Pacific Forensic Sciences Congress, University of NSW, July 1978

3.12 H.C. Coombs, ‘Scarcity, wealth and income’: CRES Working Paper HCC7: 1978

3.13 Areyonga Community: correspondence and draft report, 1978-79

3.14 Comments by Coombs when launching the book Australian Dreaming, edited by Jennifer Isaacs and published by Lansdowne Press, April 1980

3.15 H.C. Coombs, ‘Is democracy alive and well?’: paper given at the University of Western Australia Summer School, January 1979

3.16 Aboriginal Land Rights Teach-in, Sydney University, March 1979: CRES Working Paper 11

3.17 Coombs talk for ABC radio ‘Guest of Honour’ series, June 1979

3.18 Correspondence regarding Amnesty International on Human Rights Day, December 1979

H.C. Coombs, ‘The future of the outstation movement’, May 1979

Notes for talk to Amnesty International on Human Rights Day, December 1979.

The application of Science and Technology to Aboriginal Development in Australia workshop, Alice Springs, October 1985: background papers

(v)0.3 The application of Science and Technology to Aboriginal Development in Australia workshop: correspondence and copies of papers presented

(v)0.4 The application of Science and Technology to Aboriginal Development in Australia workshop: workshop report and copy of Coombs’ paper ‘Towards Aboriginal independence’

Box 54

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4.1 Yirrkala Proposal: CRES seminar, June 1981

4.2 Speech given by Coombs at the National Press Club, October 1981

4.3 Questions and answers: National Press Club speech by Coombs, November 1981

4.4 Typescript of talk by Coombs to students at Murdoch University, April 1982

4.5 Notes of talk by Coombs to Institute of Political Science: 50th Anniversary Dinner, September 1982.

4.6 Remarks made by Coombs at the opening of the first Coombs’ Lecture, Western Australian College of Advanced Education, October 1986

4.7 Opening by Coombs of the Tarling-Bennet Exhibition, Western Australian College of Advanced Education, October 1986

4.8 H.C. Coombs, ‘Aborigines and the Treaty of Waitangi’: Boyer Lecture No.6, 1988

4.8.1 ABC Boyer Lecture Series, 1988: correspondence

4.9 Article by Coombs for The Age, 6 March 1989

4.10 Ecopolitics IV Conference, Adelaide, September 1989

4.11 ‘A treaty with Aboriginal Australians’: notes for a meeting of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS), May 1980

The Keynesian crusade: notes for a seminar given by Coombs, November 1980

4.13 Northern Australia: options and implications: Research School of Pacific Studies seminar, ANU, 23 November 1978

4.14 H.C. Coombs, ‘Technology, income distribution and the quality of life’: CRES Working Paper HCC17: 1980

4.15 ‘Human rights for Aboriginal people in the 80s’: University of New South Wales seminar, October 1981: correspondence and copies of papers presented

4.16 H.C. Coombs, ‘How to balance the Aboriginal interest in resource development’: paper for Resource Development and the Future of the Australian Society Conference, ANU, August 1981

4.17 H.C. Coombs, ‘The case for a treaty’: paper given at the Land Rights and the Future of Australian Race Relations Conference, James Cook University of North Queensland Union and the Townsville Treaty Committee, August 1981

4.18 Centre for Continuing Education workshop, March 1982

4.19 H.C. Coombs, ‘The three waves and Australian identity’: speech at the National Press Club on Australia Day, 26 January 1982

4.20 Walk Against Want Community Aid Abroad dinner, March 1982

4.21 H.C. Coombs, ‘Change for the worse’, The Canberra Times, 4 March 1982

Box 55

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4.22 Science and Technology: For What Purpose?: an Australian Perspective: Academy of Science workshop and symposia, Canberra, April 1979: correspondence, program and discussion notes on Coombs’ paper

4.23.1 H.C. Coombs, ‘John Curtin – a consensus Prime Minister’: 14th annual John Curtin Memorial Lecture, ANU, 1984

4.23.2 John Curtin Memorial Lecture (n.d.): transcript of a paper presented by Neal Blewett, Federal Minister for Health

English-Language Development Course, University House, ANU, August 1983

53rd ANZAAS Conference, May 1983: correspondence

5.1 Keynote address: Environmental Law Association Conference, Tasmania, November 1985

5.1.1 Environmental Law Association: background papers: Captains Flat

5.1.2 Environmental Law Association: background papers: Rum Jungle

5.1.3 Environmental Law Association: background papers: Mary Kathleen

5.1.4 Environmental Law Association: background papers: other papers

5.2.1 H.C. Coombs, ‘The consequences of nuclear war for Australia and its region: the economic and social impact’: paper presented at the National University Special Public Affairs symposium, ANU, May 1983

5.2.2 ‘The consequences of nuclear war for Australia and its region’: background papers, 1982

5.2.3 ‘The consequences of nuclear war for Australia and its region’: background papers, 1982

Box 56

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5.3 Workshop on Industry and Environmental Law, University of Adelaide, May 1984.

(v)0.5 H.C. Coombs, ‘Whitlam: the predecessors’: keynote address, The Australian Fabian Society, November 1985. Includes papers and correspondence with Race Matthews.

(v)0.6 ‘Whitlam: the predecessors’: background papers and newspapers clippings relating to Gough Whitlam

6.1.1 Workshop on the Sir John Crawford volume: correspondence, April 1985

6.1.2 Workshop on the Sir John Crawford volume: background papers

6.2 Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF): correspondence, 1987-92

Box 57

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6.3.1 Aborigines and International Law Conference, ANU, November 1983: correspondence

6.3.2 Aborigines and International Law Conference: background papers

6.3.3 Aborigines and International Law Conference: background papers

6.4 Hugh Stretton symposium, December 1989

The Braidwood Festival, September 1989

Opening of ‘Aboriginal Art: the continuing tradition’, and the launch of Windows of the Dreaming, edited by Wally Caruana, June 1989

7.1 H.C. Coombs, ‘Under the Banyun tree’: talk given at The State Reference Library, Northern Territory, 1990. Includes notes of conversation with Kim Barber.

7.2 H.C. Coombs, ‘Vision for the 21st century’: article for the Commission for the Future, June 1990

7.3 H.C. Coombs, ‘Aborigines and development in Northern Australia’: State Library of the Northern Territory, Occasional Papers No. 24, 1991

7.4 Great Barrier Reef: statement by Coombs, August 1990

7.5 World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature: international launch, November 1990

7.6.1 The return of scarcity, H.C. Coombs: correspondence with Cambridge University Press and others, 1987-90

7.6.2 The return of scarcity: book launch and reviews

Box 58

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7.7.1 H.C. Coombs, ‘Aborigines made visible: from ‘Humbug’ to politics’: Kenneth Myer Lecture, October 1991. Includes correspondence with the National Library of Australia.

7.7.2 ‘Aborigines made visible: from ‘Humbug’ to politics’: background papers

(v)0.7 John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR), ANU: correspondence regarding protest, 1991-92

(v)0.8 John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR), ANU: background papers for protest

8.1 Whitlam Revisited Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, April 1992: correspondence and copy of Coombs’ paper ‘Willowra’

8.2 Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement (CSHA): 50th anniversary commemorative luncheon, October 1995

8.3 Film Australia interview with Coombs for the documentary ‘Celluloid Heroes’, 1994

8.4 H.C. Coombs, ‘A call to regain lost independence’, The Graduate, Autumn 1993

8.5 ‘An open letter to the Prime Minister’ from C.J. Crough, H.C. Coombs and D.A.M. Lea of the North Australia Research Unity (NARU), ANU, published in Civil Liberty, October 1993

8.6 H.C. Coombs, ‘Has Australia’s intelligentsia lost its soul?’: the R. Douglas Wright Lecture, March 1993

8.7 H.C. Coombs, ‘Can we afford to be efficient?’: paper for symposium, St James Ethics Centre, Sydney, March 1994

8.8 National Biodiversity Council, December 1994

8.9 ‘The nature of quality of life’: transcript of an interview with Coombs by Phillida Hartley, February 1994

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8.10 Correspondence (1992-93) relating to Coombs’ book Issues in dispute, published jointly by the North Australian Research Unit, ANU, and The Age and The Canberra Times, 1993

/I<(v)0.9> Issues in dispute: background papers: copies of articles in The Age and The Canberra Times, 1984-89

/I<(v)0.10> Issues in dispute: background papers: copies of articles in The Age and The Canberra Times, 1989-90

9.1.1 Correspondence with Cambridge University Press and others (1988-91) relating to Coombs’ book Aboriginal autonomy, published by Cambridge University Press, 1994

9.1.2 Aboriginal autonomy: correspondence with Cambridge Press and others, 1992-95

/I<(v)0.11> Aboriginal autonomy: reviews and book launch

/I<(v)0.12> Aboriginal autonomy: proofs and comments

9.1.5 Aboriginal autonomy: reviews

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9.2 Correspondence, comments and reviews (1978-89) relating to Coombs’ book Kulinma, published by the Australian National University Press, 1978

9.3 Friends of Yackabindie, 1992

9.4 Aboriginal Economic Development Conference, Alice Springs, June 1989

9.5 Commemorative $10.00 note: correspondence regarding the proposal to use artwork by Terry Yumbul, 1989

9.6 H.C. Coombs, ‘The quality of life and its assessment’: University of Tasmania Occasional Paper 11, 1977

9.7 Tyler Prize: nomination forms, 1995

9.8 Comment by Coombs on ‘An appreciation of Kevin Gilbert’ by Gordon Briscoe, 1994

9.9 National Aboriginal and Islander Legal Services Secretariat (N.A.I.L.S.S.) Conference, Gold Coast, January 1995

10.1 Arts in Australia: Australia Council for the Arts: correspondence, 1985-87

10.2 Proposal for the creation of an Australian Peace and Development Research Institute (APADRI), 1982-85

10.3 Committee to adjudicate an Australian Peace Award, 1985-86

10.4 Commission for the Future: correspondence, 1985-90

10.5 R.I. Downing Fellowship Appeal, 1976-80

10.6 Victorian Health Promotion Foundation: correspondence with Rhonda Galbally, 1984-94

10.7 The Robert Holmes à Court Foundation: correspondence, 1990-91

10.8 The Reichstein Foundation: correspondence, 1989-90

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10.9.1 The Myer Foundation: correspondence, 1989-96

10.9.2 Sydney Myer Performing Arts Awards: correspondence, 1985-93

North South Round Table: Society for International Development: correspondence, 1981-87

The Stegley Foundation: correspondence, 1990-92

10.12 Australia’s Environment: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead Conference, Sydney University of Technology, October 1988

10.13 A Just Settlement Between Black and White Australia, Macquarie University School of History, Philosophy and Politics workshop, June 1988

H.C. Coombs, ‘Markets rule – not OK!’: Australian Council for Social Services seminar, Canberra, December 1992

Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS): correspondence, 1972-82

Correspondence with Laurence W. Maher regarding Coombs’ involvement with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 1948

11.1 Chris Anderson, Curator of Anthropological Division, South Australian Museum: correspondence, 1991

11.2 Western Australian College of Advanced Education: correspondence, 1976-88

11.3 Department of Employment and Industrial Relations (DEIR): correspondence, 1985-86

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11.4 ‘Sustainable self-reliant communities - present realities and future policy options’: research project undertaken by Liz Sommerlad and others, Human Ecology Group, CRES, ANU, 1983-84

11.5 BIAS review of the ANU administration: notes for CRES submission, 1990

11.6 ANU Vice-Chancellor, Professor A. Low: correspondence, 1976-82

11.7 Aboriginal Economic Policy Research: CRES, ANU involvement, 1987

11.8 Twenty-First Century Fund Sub-Committee, ANU, 1980-81

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12.1 - 3 Post-War Reconstruction seminar, ANU, August 1982: notes and copies of papers presented

Included with these files are the following Department of Post-War Reconstruction papers:

1946 Visit to North Queensland and Territory of Papua New Guinea

1948 Overseas investment in Australia

1949 Territory of Papua New Guinea – various reports

1948 Visit overseas – New Guinea

1948 Australian exports

1948-49 Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East

1946 Visit overseas – India

1947 Cultural and educational aid

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13.1.1 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Housing Panel: correspondence, 1976-84

13.1.2 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Housing Panel: financial statements and reports, 1976-78

13.1.3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Housing Panel: ‘An annotated bibliography of environmental design in Aboriginal Australia’, edited by Peter Hamilton, 1976

13.1.4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Housing Panel: Aputula Construction Company, 1976-77

13.1.5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Housing Panel: Alice Springs fringe camps: report on their proposed urban development, April 1977

13.1.6 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Housing Panel: Aboriginal housing at Beagle Bay: correspondence, plans and reports, 1976-78

13.1.7 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Housing Panel: land uses in Border Ranges: correspondence, reports and background papers, 1976

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13.1.8 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Housing Panel: Mt Nancy Housing Association Inc., Alice Springs Northern Territory, Report No.1, May 1976.

13.1.9 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Housing Panel: meetings, agendas and minutes, 1976-78

14.1 Correspondence with Senator John Faulkner, Minister for the Environment, Sport and Territories regarding mining at Majella Creek, 1995

14.2 NLC Committee report on Wagait, 1993-95

14.3 Notes by Tom Bennion on the Waitangi Tribunal, August 1993

14.4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) Report, Colloquium Series, 1995

14.5 Kimberley Aboriginal Organisations and Communities Conference, Wyndham, March 1994

14.6 H.C. Coombs, ‘Who are the intelligentsia?’: the R. Douglas Wright lecture and medallion, Melbourne, 1990

14.7 Proof copy of Coombs’ book Issues in dispute, published jointly by the North Australian Research Unit, ANU, and The Age and The Canberra Times, 1993

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15.1 Blackstone Community Advisers Association: correspondence, 1982

15.2 Cape York Land Council: correspondence, 1992

15.3 Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association: correspondence, 1985

15.4 Docker River: statistical data and discussion notes, 1976

15.5 Great Barrier Reef: correspondence and newspaper clippings, 1979

15.6 Mimili Community: correspondence, 1977

15.7 Parnamaru Community: correspondence, 1977

15.8 Pitjantjatjara Council: correspondence and background papers, 1974-77

15.9 Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Working Party: draft report, March 1977

15.10 Pitjantjatjara: Land Management workshop report, 1990

15.11.1 - 4 Pitjantjatjara: background papers by H.C. Coombs for ‘The Pitjantjatjara

Aborigines: a strategy for survival’, 1976-79

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15.12 Todd River: correspondence regarding proposed dam, 1992

15.13 Notes of discussions on problems at Warburton, 1976-77

15.14 Warumungu Land Claim, n.d.

15.15 Dhimurru Land Management Report, 1994

15b.1 Minutes of a meeting held at Angurugu, October 1977

15b.2 ‘Ayers Rock region tourist impact study’: a proposal for the study of the socio-economic impacts of tourism in the Ayers Rock region, by the CLC and the Pitjantjatjara Council, 1984

15b.3 Ernabella and Fregon: Community Employment Development Plan (CDEP) review, 1977

15b.4 ‘Principles relating to housing amongst Aboriginal groups associated with Hermannsburg’, paper by Garry Stoll, Rex Ziersch and Joan Schmaal, n.d.

15b.5 Jabiluka and Koongarra projects - the social impact: correspondence and report, 1981

15b.6 ‘Report on Aboriginal history and affiliation to Magnetic Island with particular reference to Nelly Bay’: report to Linkon Projects by Nancy M. Williams, 1989

15b.7 ‘Papunya: history and future prospects’: Department of Aboriginal Affairs report prepared for the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and the Minister for Education, July 1977

15b.8 ‘Water Roxby Downs - whose fault is it?’: paper presented by the Roxby Vigil, n.d.

15b.9 Pamphlet entitled ‘Rudall River National Park: the three act nightmare’, prepared by the Lobby for Peace, through Senator Jo Valentine’s office

15b.10 Paper entitled ‘A proposal for a community-controlled health service based at Warburton Ranges, WA’, no author, n.d.

15b.11 Transcript of Warmun evidence to Seaman Inquiry regarding the Argyle Agreement, 1983

15b.12 ‘The Aboriginal land inquiry of Western Australia’, Warmun Community submission, n.d.

15b.13 D.H. Penny, ‘Social accounting for Aboriginal communities: the cases of Willowra and Papunya’, 1976

15b.14 Aboriginal reconciliation proposal: correspondence, 1991

15b.15 Remote Aboriginal Community Futures: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies biennial conference, Townsville, 1990

15b.16 Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Aboriginal consultancy agreements: correspondence, 1975-78

15b.17 Aboriginal communities – impact of television: correspondence, reports and newspaper clippings, 1980-86

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15b.18 Australian Aboriginal Affairs Council (AAAC) report, 1991

15b.19 Fraser Island: correspondence and reports, 1991

15b.20 Mirima Dawang Woorlab-Gerring Language and Culture Centre: correspondence, 1990-91

15b.21 Miscellaneous newspaper clippings relating to Aboriginal issues, 1977-92

16.1a Homelands Education Project: correspondence, 1982-89

16.1b Homelands Education Project: correspondence, 1990

16.1c Homelands Education Project: correspondence, 1991-92

16.1d Homelands Education Project: correspondence, 1993-95

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16.2 Nganampa Mantangka Education: our own education on our own land. Homelands Education Research Project: report to Anangu Pitjantjatjara by Helen McCann, CRES, ANU, 1991

National Aboriginal Education Policy (NAEP): correspondence and report, 1989-90

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy: revised draft, 1989

Warren Snowdon, ‘Submission on behalf of Nganyintja and Charlie Ilyatjari for funds to establish a rehabilitation program for juveniles’: CRES Working Paper, WS/WP1: 1980

16.6 Warren Snowdon, ‘We’ve started waking up: Aboriginal conceptions for the style and content of their children’s education’: CRES Working Paper, WS/WP2: 1981

16.7 Warren Snowdon, ‘We’ve got the culture, you’ve got to change’: paper presented at the North Australia Research Unit’s Service Delivery to Remote Communities seminar, Darwin, December 1981

16.8 Warren Snowdon, ‘The hidden curriculum: tacit teaching to Aborigines in schools’: CRES Working Paper, C/WP4: 1981

16b.1 ‘The Anangu Teacher Education Program’: a report for information and discussion, prepared by the Aboriginal Studies and Teacher Education Centre, Adelaide College of Arts and Education, May 1981

16b.2 Cem and Margaret Alptekin, ‘The question of culture: EFL teaching in non-English speaking countries’, ELT Journal, Vol. 38/1, January 1984

16b.3 N.T. Bonner, ‘Training and education – the skill infrastructure’, Always Anangu: review of the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal communities of Central Australia, published by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 1988

16b.4 ‘An Aboriginal School of the Air’: briefing paper prepared by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), n.d.

16b.5 Michael Christie, ‘The invasion of Aboriginal education’: paper presented at the National Conference on Aboriginal Adult Learning, Perth, 1988

16b.6 Michael Christie, ‘Grounded and ex-centric knowledges: exploring Aboriginal alternatives to western thinking’: paper presented at the Conference on Thinking, Townsville, July 1992.

16b.7 Michael Christie, ‘Aboriginalising curriculum’, n.d.

16b.8 Michael Christie, ‘Aboriginal science for the ecologically sustainable future’: paper presented at the CONASTS conference of teachers of science and technology, Alice Springs, July 1990

16b.9 Ralph Folds, ‘Point and counterpoint: choosing a curriculum model for Aboriginal schools’, Curriculum Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 1985

16b.10 Jack Frawley (ed.), Kularlaga: a journal of Aboriginal adult education, Vol. 2, No. 2, Batchelor College, School of Education Studies, 1991

16b.11 ‘Wuyal: the land, the song, the dance, and the history of the ancestor’, a primary Galtha Rom workshop, Yirrkala Community School Literature Production Centre, 1991

16b.12 Extract from H. Groom, ‘To break through the wall’, Pitjantjatjara Post Primary Report, 1986

16b.13 John Henry, ‘Yirrkala community school teacher education discussions’: report, November 1983

16b.14 Ian Stewart, statements supportive of the innovative approaches developed by Batchelor College, 1991

16b.15 Evaluation strategy for the community sector component of the Training for Aboriginals Program (TAP), coordinated by the Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET), 1991

16b.16 Robin McTaggart, ‘Pedagogical principles for Aboriginal teacher education’, School of Education, Deakin University, 1987

16b.17 John Henry, ‘A strategic view of the shift to self-management of the Yirrkala Community School’, 1986

16b.18 Robin McTaggart, ‘Aboriginalisation implies empowerment and disempowerment’, School of Education, Deakin University, 1988

16b.19 Robin McTaggart, ‘Action research for Aboriginal pedagogy: beyond ‘both ways’ education’, Action research for change and development, edited by Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt, published by the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, Griffith University, 1991

16b.20 Robin McTaggart, ‘Western institutional impediments to Australian Aboriginal education’, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1991

16b.21 Raymattja Marika, Dayngawa Ngurruwutthun and Leon White, ‘Always together Yaka Gana: participatory research at Yirrkala as part of the development of a Yolngu education’, 1988

16b.22 Raymattja Munungiritj, ‘Towards evaluating Aboriginal studies programs for young adults in Aboriginal Schools’ and ‘The history of the Yirrkala community school: Yolnu thinking about education in the Laynha and Yirrkala area’, n.d.

16b.23 Daymbalipu Munungurr, Bakamana Yunipinu and Wali Wununmurra, ‘Educational needs of the homelands centres of the Laynhapuy region, North East Arnhem Land’: report of the Balanana Project, a Schools Commission project of national significance, 1987

16b.24 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy brochures, 1989

16b.25 ‘Operational plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education’, Northern Territory Education Department, 1990-92 triennium

16b.26 ‘Tristate sharing of education services to Aboriginal communities of the Pitjantjatjara and related language groups’: report and recommendations from a meeting of Education Department Officers from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia concerning staff development, 1987

16b.27 National Aboriginal Education Policy (NAEP): report of the Aboriginal Education Policy Task Force, 1988

16b.28 National Aboriginal Education Policy (NAEP): position paper prepared for the State Minister for Education by the Aboriginal Independent Schools of Western Australia, November 1989

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16b.29 Helen Watson-Verran, ‘Garma curriculum at Yirrkala: a unified curriculum incorporating an approach to western mathematics consistent with the logic of Yolngu life’: a report for the Action Group of Yirrkala Community Education Centre, n.d.

16b.30 Helen Watson-Verran, ‘The Galtha Rom Seminar in Yirrkala: a curriculum in mathematics for senior Yolngu students’: paper presented to the Mathematics Education Seminar, La Trobe University, May 1989

16b.31 South Australia Department of Education: Pitjantjatjara Teacher Education Advisory Committee meeting agenda and papers, June 1980

16b.32 ‘Professional development for Aboriginal Teachers’, inservice held at Yirrkala, 1987

16b.33 Aboriginal language and music teaching aids, n.d.

16b.34 Yipirinya School Council submission on the establishment of teaching programmes in town camps, Alice Springs, October 1978

16b.35 Aboriginal radio in the Kimberley: a study of the broadcasting needs of Aboriginal people in the Kimberly District of Western Australia, by the people of Wangkiyuparnanapurru, Puranyangu-Rangka Kerrem and Waringarri, assisted by Deborah Collings and Grahame Steel, published by Wangkiyuparnanapurru, Puranyangu-Rangka Kerrem and Waringarri Media, 1989

16b.36 Helen Watson-Verran and Leon White, ‘Issues of knowledge in the policy of self-determination for Aboriginal Australian communities’, Knowledge and Policy, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1993

17.1 Federal Government Bill to establish Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) Land Fund: correspondence and amendments to Bill, 1994-95

17.2 Constitutional change: reviewing the constitution: comments and notes, 1991

17.3 Draft paper on Aborigines and alcohol and other addictions from the Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, 1995

17.4 Aboriginal Health: Social and Cultural Transitions Conference, Northern Territory University, Darwin, September 1995

17.5 Discretionary Trust for finance for the North-West Kimberley Land Claim: correspondence and deed, 1991-95

17.6 Purnululu National Park (Bungle Bungle) proposal, 1991-92

17.7 Surviving Columbus: the Indigenous Environment Today and Tomorrow Conference, Darwin, October 1992

17.8 Transcript of discussion with Patricia Caswell, April 1994

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17.9 Kimberley Regional Agreements, 1994-95

17.10 Mabo, 1993

17.11 National Aboriginal Conference (NAC), 1984-95

Constitutional Centenary Conference, Sydney, April 1991

Constitutional Changes in the 1990’s Conference, Darwin, October 1992

18.1 North Australia Research Unit (NARU) review: committee reports, 1980-95

North Australia Research Unit (NARU): 20th birthday seminar, 1995

North Australia Research Unit (NARU): correspondence, 1990-95

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North Australia Research Unit (NARU): establishment of the Nugget Coombs Forum for Indigenous Studies, 1991-92

Foreward by Coombs to The Australian welfare state: key documents and themes, edited by John Wilson, Jane Thomson and Anthony McMahon, published by Macmillan, 1996

North Australia Research Unit (NARU): seminars, 1977-80

19.1 Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS): medal awarded to Coombs, August 1977

19.2 Selection of Coombs as one of the ‘Great Australians of the 20th Century’ by The Australian Magazine, December 1990

19.3 Biographical notes

19.4 Banuba Productions Aboriginal Corporation: correspondence with Peter Yu, 1987

19.5 The Daniel Mannix Memorial Lecture, Melbourne University: transcript of speech given by Peter Garrett, President of the Australian Conservation Foundation, 1992

19.6 The Ditchley Foundation: correspondence, 1976-85

19.7 Australian National University farewell dinner for Dr and Mrs Coombs, University House, May 1976

H.C. Coombs: patron for ‘If I was here’, a Dance Theatre Project by Nicholas Rowe for the Bougainvillea Festival of Darwin, 1995

Correspondence regarding the recommendation by the Governor-General for the appointment of Coombs as a Companion of the Civil Division of the Order of Australia, and Coombs’ declining of the offer, 1975-76

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19.10 ‘The economics of the Performing Arts’, H.C. Coombs: paper published in Economic Papers, No. 35, October 1974

19.11.1 Newspaper clippings about Coombs, 1960-89

19.11.2 Newspaper clippings about Coombs, 1990-95

19.12.1 - 4 Transcripts of numerous interviews with Coombs for radio, television,journal and newspaper articles and with researchers

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19.12.5 - 7 Transcripts of interviews (continued)

20.1.1 Biographical correspondence relating to Coombs’ appointment as a Visiting Fellow, CRES, ANU, and subsequent extensions of this appointment, 1976-96

(v)0.13 Biographical correspondence: H.C. Coombs, 1967-84

(v)0.14 Biographical correspondence: H.C. Coombs, 1985-95

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20.1.4 Honorary Visiting Fellowships by Coombs and copies of his degrees, 1934-92

(v)0.15 Ross Garnaut, ‘Banking after deregulation: prudence, accountability and the role of regional banks’: paper for the H.C. Coombs Lecture, Edith Cowan University, Perth, May 1991

(v)0.16 Biographical summary notes

20.1.7 Conditions of service on appointment as Chairman of the Council of Aboriginal Affairs, Prime Minister’s Department, 1967-75

21.1 Aboriginal law and reform: correspondence, 1976-78

21.2 Aboriginal law and reform: correspondence, 1979-80

Notes for legislation to enable communities to make rules for the maintenance of law and order and to establish community courts to enforce those rules and to ensure that traditional law is observed, 1978

Notes on Yirrkala visit: petrol sniffing, May 1980

Aboriginal law and reform: correspondence, 1980-83

21.6 Aboriginal customary law: Yirrkala: correspondence, 1981-93

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21.7 Aboriginal Law Reform Commission: correspondence and reports, 1981-86

21.8 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: correspondence and reports, 1989-91

21.9 Constitutional reform: recognition of Aboriginal customary law: correspondence, 1991-93

22.1 Land rights: policy formation of Aboriginal Land Rights, 1981

22.2 Land rights: land legislation, Palm Island, 1984

22.3 Land rights: Pitjantjatjara, 1977-80

22.4 Land rights: Walpiri Land Claim, 1978

22.5 Land rights: Noonkanbah, 1979-80

Land rights: Northern Land Council, 1977-84

Land rights: correspondence, 1976-84

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22.8 Land rights: Kakadu: correspondence, 1977-80

22.9 Land rights: Kenbi Claim, 1980

23.1 Aboriginal development: correspondence and course programs, 1978-79

23.2 Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (CAAC): training scheme for Aboriginal Community Support Officers, 1978

23.3 Aborigines: employment: correspondence and submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, 1975-82

23.4 Aboriginal enterprises: correspondence, 1978-80

23.5 Aboriginal enterprises: study of cattle properties, 1968, 1976-77

23.6 Royal Commission on Government and Commercial Enterprises: correspondence, 1991-92

23.7 Aboriginal enterprises: fish farming, 1977

23.8 Aboriginal enterprises: Witchetty Grub farming, 1977-78

23.9 Aboriginal health: The Nutrition of Aborigines in Relation to the Ecosystem of Central Australia, CSIRO workshop No. 1, Canberra, October 1976

Aboriginal health: The Nutrition of Aborigines in Relation to the Ecosystem of Central Australia, CSIRO workshop No. 2, October 1977

Papers for CSIRO meeting, Adelaide, March 1979

Aboriginal health: correspondence, 1977-90

Nganampa Health Service (Pitjantjatjara Council Inc.), Alice Springs: correspondence, 1982-83

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23.14 CSIRO: Eremophila alternifolia enquiry: correspondence and reports, 1978-81

23.15 Aboriginal housing: correspondence, 1978-82

23.16a Land Degradation Project meeting, CRES, ANU, December 1988

23.16b Papers associated with the Land Degradation Project

23.16c Central Land Council: National Soil Conservation Programme, application for funding, 1989-90

24.1 Aurukun Mission: correspondence and papers, 1976-79

Community development: correspondence and reports, 1989-90

Western Australia communities visit, 29 May – 22 June 1977

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Central Reserve communities: correspondence and reports, 1975-77

Pitjantjatjara Council: background papers, reports, minutes of meetings, policy statements and correspondence, 1974-83

24.6 Aboriginal education: correspondence and reports, 1977-82

24.7 Pitjantjatjara: education: correspondence and reports, 1979-84

Homelands Education Research Project: report to Anangu Pitjantjatjara, April 1991

Miscellaneous papers on a range of Aboriginal issues including land rights, education, Aboriginal deaths and mining at Argyle

Uranium mining: correspondence, 1977-87

Mining: notes and telexes, 1984

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25.3 Mining: correspondence, 1976-86

25.4 Uranium mining: Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF): correspondence , 1977-78

25.5 Mining: Alligator River: correspondence1977-80

25.6 -7 Mining: Impact of Uranium Mining in the Alligator River Region: Interrelationships Within the Natural and Social Environments workshop, CRES, ANU, Canberra, April 1980

Mining: Ranger agreement: correspondence, 1978-81

The social impact of uranium mining on the Aborigines of the Northern Territory: correspondence and papers, 1978-84

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Report to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs on the social impact of uranium mining on the Aborigines of the Northern Territory for the period October 1981 to March 1982

Papers for Uranium Impact Project (UIP) Steering Committee meeting, Canberra, September 1980

26.4 - 5 Papers for Uranium Impact Project (UIP) Steering Committee meeting, Darwin, August 1981

Papers for Uranium Impact Project (UIP) Steering Committee meeting, Canberra, February 1981

Papers for Uranium Impact Project (UIP) Steering Committee meeting, Canberra, September 1980

Papers for Uranium Impact Project (UIP) Steering Committee meeting, Canberra, March 1980

Papers for Uranium Impact Project (UIP) Steering Committee meeting, Darwin, July 1979

26.10 Papers for Uranium Impact Project (UIP) Steering Committee meeting, Canberra, October 1978

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27 Papers for Uranium Impact Project (UIP) Steering Committee meeting, Canberra, March 1979

‘The East Kimberley Impact Assessment Project’, H.C. Coombs, Helen Ross and Nancy Williams: paper presented to the International Association for Impact Assessment Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, July 1988

H.C. Coombs, ‘Aborigines and the treaty of Waitangi’, November 1988 (two files)

Aboriginal History, Vol. 12, No. 1-2, 1988

H.C. Coombs, ‘Matching facts and theory’, Australian Society, July 1988

Telex of an obituary by Coombs for Sir John Crawford, November 1984

H.C. Coombs, ‘Tourists in Aboriginal land – threat or opportunity’, October 1984 (2 files)

H.C. Coombs, ‘Aborigines and mining – the issues in dispute’: paper given at CRES, ANU seminar, Canberra, September 1984

H.C. Coombs, ‘Aborigines and mining – the issues in dispute’, The Age, October 1984

Newspaper clipping from of interview with Coombs by T.M. Fitzgerald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 May 1984

Notes for remarks by Coombs at the AMIC workshop on mining industry and the environment, University of Adelaide, May 1984

A copy of ‘The Yirrkala proposals for the control of law and order’ from A certain heritage: programs for and by Aboriginal familes in Australia, edited by H.C. Coombs, M.M. Brandl and W.E. Snowdon, published by CRES, ANU, 1983 (three files)

Environmental Law Association symposium: keynote address by Coombs, 1985

H.C. Coombs, ‘Whitlam: the predecessors’: The Australian Fabian Society, November 1985 (two files)

Judith Wright, ‘Where do we go from here?’, We call for a treaty, published by Collins/Fontana, 1985 (two files)

Notes for remarks by Coombs at the first H.C. Coombs’ lecture, Western Australian College of Advanced Education, October 1986

Notes for opening of the Tarling-Bennet exhibition by Coombs, October 1986

Program for the Herbert Cole Coombs Annual Lecture, Western Australian College of Advanced Education, October 1986

H.C. Coombs, ‘Sustainable society will need a new ethic of responsibility’, Habitat, Vol. 14, No. 1, February 1986

Copy of Coombs’ contribution to Sir John Crawford, published by the Australian National University, 1986

H.C. Coombs, ‘Towards Aboriginal independence’: paper for Science and Technology and Aboriginal Development workshop, CRES, ANU, November 1985

H.C. Coombs, ‘Betrayal of trust’, The Age, March 1989

H.C. Coombs, ‘Towards a national Aboriginal Congress’: extracts from a report to the Hon. Clyde Holding, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, April 1984

H.C. Coombs, ‘An invitation to debate’, Kullark (Home): the dreamers, by Jack Davis, published by Currency Press, 1982 (two files)

H.C. Coombs, ‘The problem of public administration’, November 1988

Draft of an untitled article by Coombs for The Age, March 1989

Paper by Coombs for the Ecopolitics proceedings, November 1989

H.C. Coombs, ‘Science & technology: for what - or for whom?’, Current Affairs Bulletin, Vol. 56, No. 4, September 1979

Draft of the forward by Coombs to Invitation to the dance, Pamela Ruskin, published by Collins Australia, 1989

Notes on seminar and meeting of Aboriginal leaders at the Aboriginal Legal Centre, February 1989

H.C. Coombs, ‘Present and future in Aboriginal plans’, The Canberra Times, November 1989

Article by Coombs for the Aboriginal Council for Overseas Aid, June 1989

Some questions and comments by Coombs about Mary Edmunds’ paper ‘Doing business, socialisation, social relations and social control in Aboriginal societies’, November 1990

H.C. Coombs, ‘Willowra’: paper given at the Whitlam Re-visited Conference, April 1992

The Daniel Mannix Memorial Lecture, Melbourne University: transcript of speech given by Peter Garrett, President of the Australian Conservation Foundation, 1992

H.C. Coombs, ‘A call to regain lost independence’, National Graduate, Autumn 1993

‘An open letter to the Prime Minister’ from C.J. Crough, H.C. Coombs and D.A.M. Lea of the North Australia Research Unity (NARU), ANU, published in Civil Liberty, October 1993

H.C. Coombs, ‘Has Australia’s intelligentsia lost its soul?’: edited text of the R. Douglas Wright Lecture, March 1993, The Age, April 1993

H.C. Coombs, ‘Can we afford to be efficient?’: paper for symposium, St James Ethics Centre, Sydney, March 1994

‘The nature of quality of life’: transcript of an interview with Coombs by Phillida Hartley, February 1994

H.C. Coombs, J. Dargavel, J. Kesteven, H. Ross, D.I. Smith and E. Young, ‘The promise of the land: sustainable use by Aboriginal communities’: CRES, ANU Working Paper 1990/1

H.C. Coombs, ‘The Middle East and the 21st Century’, December 1990

Notes of conversation with Kim Barber, Department of Anthropology, University of Western Australia, July 1991

Statement by Coombs on the Great Barrier Reef, August 1990

Draft of forward by Coombs to the catalogue of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s exhibition of selected works of art, May 1992

‘Economics ‘corrupt’: article quoting Coombs, The Canberra Times, December 1992

‘Education: a note from Nugget Coombs’: advertisement for the published proceedings of the Surviving Columbus Conference held in Darwin, September 1992

‘Coombs: Australian society being corrupted’: interview with Coombs in ANU Reporter, Vol. 23, No. 20, December 1992

Paper by Coombs for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) launch, Sydney, November 1990

H.C. Coombs, ‘Aborigines and Development in Northern Australia’: State Library of the Northern Territory, Occasional Papers No.24. 1991

H.C. Coombs, ‘A return of scarcity’: paper for CRES seminar, May 1988

H.C. Coombs, ‘The Future of the Outstation Movement’: CRES Working Paper HCC/WP15: 1979

Box 83

File Number Title

‘Coombs attacks Hawke policy’: newspaper article, 1984

Comments by Coombs to the UNESCO symposium on the rights of peoples, April 1985

Copies of articles reproduced in Issues in dispute, by H.C. Coombs, published jointly by the North Australian Research Unit, ANU, and The Age and The Canberra Times, 1993

H.C. Coombs, ‘Regional agreements’ – an idea whose time has come?’, The Canberra Times, December 1994

Draft of forward by Coombs for Nonie Sharp, No ordinary judgment: Mabo, the Murray Islanders' land case, published by Aboriginal Studies Press, 1996

H.C. Coombs, ‘A treaty with Aboriginal Australians’: CRES Working Paper HCC/WP16: 1979

Notes for talk by Coombs to Amnesty International on Human Rights Day, December 1979

H.C. Coombs, ‘Science and Technology: for what purpose?’: CRES Working Paper HCC/12: 1979

Comments by Coombs for inclusion in a ‘scrap book’ to mark the retirement of Ros Bower as Director of the Community Arts Board, December 1979

Copy of Energy and people: social implications of different energy futures, edited by Mark Diesendorf, foreword by H.C. Coombs, published by the Society for Social Responsibility in Science, 1979 (two files)

H.C. Coombs, ‘The proposal for a treaty between the Commonwealth and Aboriginal Australians’: CRES Working Paper HCC/WP14: 1979 (two files)

CRES, ANU: Aboriginal land rights teach-in, Sydney University, March 1979

H.C. Coombs, ‘Is democracy alive and well?’: CRES Working Paper HCC/10: 1979

H.C. Coombs, ‘Guest of honour talk: ABC’: CRES Working Paper HCC/13: 1979

Comments made by Coombs when launching Australian Dreaming, edited by Jennifer Isaacs and published by Lansdowne Press, April 1980

Notes for an address by Coombs at the Sydney College of Arts, May 1980

Remarks by Coombs at the Human Rights for Aborigines in the 1980s? Conference, September 1982

H.C. Coombs, ‘Economic change and political strategy’: CRES Working Paper HCC/WP19: 1980 (two files)

H.C. Coombs, ‘Aboriginal control of law and order – Yirrkala’: draft for taped message, July 1980

H.C. Coombs, ‘Signing an Australian Peace Treaty’, Social Alternatives, Vol. 1, Nos. 6/7, 1980

H.C. Coombs, ‘Technology, income distribution and the quality of life’: CRES Working Paper HCC/17: 1980. Note: this paper was also presented at the John Murtagh Macrossan Endowed Lecture, University of Queensland, 1980 and appeared as an article in Search, Vol. 13, No. 5-6, June/July 1982

H.C. Coombs, ‘The impact of Uranium mining on the social environment of Aborigines in the Alligator Rivers Region’: CRES Working Paper HCC/WP18: 1980 (two files)

H.C. Coombs, ‘Implications of Land Rights’: CRES Working Paper HCC/9: 1978 (two files)

Notes for a talk on counterfeiters, n.d.

Notes by Coombs for a meeting of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, May 1980

Correspondence and papers relating to Coombs’ book Other people's money; economic essays, published by Australian National University Press, 1971 (two files)

Speech given by Coombs at the National Press Club, October 1981

Questions and answers: National Press Club speech by Coombs, November 1981

Eulogy by Coombs for Professor W.E.H. Stanner, October 1981

H.C. Coombs, submissions to the Royal Commission on Petroleum

Drilling on the Great Barrier Reef, December 1971 (three files)

H.C. Coombs, ‘The case for a treaty’: paper for Aboriginal Rights and the Law seminar, James Cook University, Townsville, August 1981

H.C. Coombs, ‘Overview – Government’: paper given at the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences Conference on Aboriginal Rights, Sites and the Impacts of Resource Development, November 1981

H.C. Coombs, ‘Australia’s Aboriginal people’: lecture to Japanese students at University House, Canberra, n.d.

Notes of talk by Coombs to the Australian Institute of Political Science, 50th Anniversary Dinner, September 1982

Transcript of a talk by Coombs to students at Murdoch University, March 1982

H.C. Coombs, ‘Technology and society – an overview’: keynote speech given at the Schumacher Memorial Conference on Appropriate Technology, Macquarie University, Sydney, December 1982

Box 84

File Number Title

A.B. Costin and H.C. Coombs, ‘Farm planning for resource conservation’, Search, Vol. 12, No. 12, December 1981-January 1982

H.C. Coombs, ‘How to balance the Aboriginal interest in resource development’, Resource development and the future of Australian society, edited by Stuart Harris and Geoff Taylor, published by the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, 1982

H.C. Coombs, ‘Why is a treaty necessary?’: speech given at a dinner for members of the NSW Campaign for Constitutional Change, Sydney, November 1982

W.E. Dunk and H.C. Coombs, ‘The problem of secret research’: report on Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - organisation, administration and related problems, December 1948

Draft of a foreward by Coombs to a book on the art of the Oenpelli people (title not known), n.d.

H.C. Coombs, ‘Some ingredients for growth’: paper delivered at the 3rd annual Shann Memorial Lecture in Economics, University of Western Australia, May 1963

Opening address by Coombs at the 13th Annual Arts Festival, Wangaratta, March 1965

Paper presented by Coombs at the Felton Bequest symposium ‘Man and his Science’, in honour of the 70th birthday of Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Melbourne, 1969

H.C. Coombs, The fragile pattern: institutions and man: the Boyer Lectures 1970, published by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1970

H.C. Coombs, ‘The economics of the performing arts’, Economic Papers, No. 35, September 1970/June 1971

H.C. Coombs ‘Changing economic and social perspectives in resource management’, Conservation, edited by A.B. Costin and H.J. Frith, published by Penguin Books, 1974

‘Ecologist and entrepreneur – is reconciliation possible?’: remarks by Coombs at the Science and Industry Forum’s symposium Industry and the Environment, Melbourne, October 1972 (two files)

H.C. Coombs, ‘The employment status of Aborigines’, reprinted from Australian Economic Papers, June 1972

H.C. Coombs, ‘Matching ecological and economic realities’: extract from The Economic Record, journal of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand, March 1972

‘Ecological and economic man’: remarks made by Coombs at the Annual General Meeting of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, March 1973

H.C. Coombs, ‘Decentralization trends among Aboriginal communities’, Search, Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1974

H.C. Coombs, ‘Some Aboriginal Australians’: paper for the 5th Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Lecture, Melbourne, 1974

Talk given by Coombs at the Australian Water Resources Council Water Management workshop, Canberra, May 1974

Submission by Coombs on the Papua New Guinea ‘border’ issue, made to the Sub-committee on Boundaries of the Joint Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs, September 1976

Draft preface by Coombs to Change the rules!: towards a democratic constitution, edited by Sol Encel, Donald Horne and Elaine Thompson, published by Penguin Books, 1977

Address by Coombs at the Conferring of Degrees ceremony, ANU, April 1976

H.C. Coombs, ‘The future of bureaucracy’: talk given at a convocation lunch, University House, Canberra, August 1976

H.C. Coombs, ‘Decentralisation in Central Australia’: article for the CSIRO newsletter Aboriginal Nutrition, March 1977

Notes for opening of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science (ACT) Energy and People Conference, October 1978

Dinner address by Coombs at the Environmental Economics Conference, Canberra, May 1978

H.C. Coombs, ‘The consequences of nuclear war for Australia and its region: the economic and social impact’: paper presented at the National University Special Public Affairs symposium, ANU, May 1983

Draft introduction by Coombs to Albert Namatjira: the life and work of an Australian painter, text by Nadine Amadio et al, published by Macmillan, 1986

Draft forward by Coombs for a proposed work by Noel Butlin entitled ‘Black fella fall down, jump up white man’, February 1983

Draft forward by Coombs to Settle down country = Pmere arlaltyewele, by Dick Leichleitner Japanangka and Pam Nathan, published by the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, 1983

H.C. Coombs, ‘The Pitjantjatjara Aborigines: a strategy for survival’: CRES Working Paper HCC/1: 1977

H.C. Coombs, ‘The quality of life and its assessment’: CRES Working Paper HCC/2: 1977 (two files)

H.C. Coombs, ‘Scarcity, wealth and income’: CRES Working Paper HCC/7: 1978 (two files)

H.C. Coombs, ‘The application of Community Employment Development Plan (CDEP) in Aboriginal communities in the eastern zone of Western Australia’: CRES Working Paper HCC/3: 1977

Guide to the 1977 microfiche edition of the Collected Papers of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, of which Coombs was the Chairman

H.C. Coombs, ‘Aboriginal Australians 1967-1976 – a decade of progress?’: paper for Murdoch Lecture, University of Western Australia, 1976

H.C. Coombs, ‘Aboriginal Australians 1967-1977’: CRES Working Paper HCC/4: 1977

H.C. Coombs, ‘Economic, social and spiritual factors in Aboriginal health’: CRES Working Paper 1983/16

H.C. Coombs, ‘Some aspects of development in Aboriginal communities in Central Australia’: CRES Working Paper HCC/5: 1978

H.C. Coombs, ‘Submission to the Commission on the Walpiri Land Claim’: CRES Working Paper HCC/8: 1978

H.C. Coombs, ‘Aggression and the Aboriginal environment’: CRES Working Paper HCC/6: 1978

H.C. Coombs, ‘John Curtin – a consensus Prime Minister?’: 14th Annual John Curtin Memorial Lecture, ANU, 1984

H.C. Coombs, Australia’s policy towards Aborigines 1967-1977, Minority Rights Group Report No. 5, March 1978

Chronological index to papers written by Coombs, compiled by his office

Box 85

File Number Title

27.131a H.C. Coombs, ‘Consultancy report for Central Land Council’, August 1983

27.131b ‘Consultancy report for Central Land Council’: appendices

27.131c ‘Consultancy report for Central Land Council’: summary of conclusions and recommendations

H.C. Coombs, ‘The role of the National Aboriginal Conference’: report to the Hon. Clyde Holding, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, April 1984

H.C. Coombs, W.E.H. Stanner and B.G. Dexter, ‘Report on Arnhem Land’, 1976

H.C. Coombs, ‘Decisions made by Aborigines’: article reprinted from Anthropological Forum, Vol. III, No. 2, 1972

Box 86

Note: An index to the correspondents contained in the folders of general correspondence was included with the papers, and a copy of this is in appendix 1. Filing within these folders is not always in strict alphabetical order.

Folder Number

Folder 1 General correspondence: A - C

Folder 2 General correspondence: D – He

Folder 3 General correspondence: Hi – Hz

Folder 4 General correspondence: J - L

Box 87

Folder Number

Folder 5 General correspondence: M – P

Folder 6 General correspondence: R – Su

Folder 7 General correspondence: Sy – Wal

Folder 8 General correspondence: War - Z

Note: Boxes 88-92 contain Central Land Council (CLC) and Northern Land Council (NLC) files for the period 1977-84

Box 88

File Number Title

1.1 Central Land Council (CLC): correspondence, 1983

1.2 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1981-82

1.3 J. Blittner: correspondence, 1982

1.4 Ross Howie: correspondence, 1979-83

1.5 A.J. Capp, Regional Director for Northern Territory: correspondence, 1982-83

1.6 P. Dodson: correspondence, 1983

1.7 L. McElrea: correspondence, 1982

1.8 John Coldray: correspondence, 1982

1.9 Michael Dillon: correspondence, 1981-84

1.10 Clyde Holding: correspondence, 1983

1.11 W. Lanhupuy (empty folder)

1.12 Jeremy Long: correspondence, 1982

1.13 R. J. May: correspondence, 1983

J. Morphett: correspondence, 1982-83

1.15 Travel, ANUTECH, 1982-83

Professor R.G. Neale: correspondence, 1982

Charles Perkins: correspondence, 1982

M.S. Purcell: correspondence, 1982

1.19 Wenten Rabuntja: correspondence, 1982-83

Box 89

File Number Title

1.20 Remuneration Tribunal: correspondence, 1983

1.21 Bruce Reyburn: correspondence, 1982-83

1.22 Professor Ian Ross: correspondence, 1981-82

1.23 D. Ross: correspondence, 1983

1.24 Stan Scrutton: correspondence, 1981-84

1.25 Geoff Stead: correspondence, 1982

1.26 Nancy Williams: correspondence, 1983

1.27 Ian Wilson: correspondence, 1983

2.1 Central Land Council (CLC) Consultancy: random notes, 1981-82

2.2 Visit to Alice Springs, n.d.

2.3 Executive meetings, 1982-83

2.4 Terms and conditions of employment, 1981-83

2.5 Membership of committees, 1977-83

2.6 Planning and Management Committee meetings, 1982-83

2.7 Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Aboriginal Information and Education Division, 1982-83

Aboriginal Women's Advisory Council, 1982

Central Land Council (CLC) accommodation: premises, 1982-83

Administration records, 1982-83

Box 90

File Number Title

2.11 Central Land Council (CLC) and Northern Land Council (NLC): comparative staffing, 1982

2.12 Central Land Council (CLC): Anthropologist and Field Officer, 1983

2.13 Central Land Council (CLC): Electoral Education Officers, 1983

2.14 Central Land Council (CLC): establishment and salaries, 1982

2.15 Central Land Council (CLC): field staff (2 files), 1983

2.16 Central Land Council (CLC): Management Information Officer, 1983

Central Land Council (CLC): Mining Section, 1983

Central Land Council (CLC): Policy Research and Negotiation Co-ordinator, 1983

Central Land Council (CLC): Legal Division, 1983

2.20 Central Land Council (CLC): Research Officer, 1983

2.21 Central Land Council (CLC): Special Adviser, 1982

Central Land Council (CLC): staff training, 1983

Central Land Council (CLC): Secretariat, 1983

2.24 Central Land Council (CLC): selection committees, 1983

2.25 Central Land Council (CLC): terms and conditions of employment,

1982-83

2.26 Central Land Council (CLC): vehicle usage, 1982

2.27 Financial Procedure Statements, n.d.

2.28 Draft Central Land Council (CLC) report: comments received, 1982-83

Box 91

File Number Title

3.1 H.C. Coombs, ‘Central Land Council (CLC) proposals for re-organisation’: discussion paper, 1982

3.2 Extracts from the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act, 1976 and the Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act (No. 2), 1978

Central Land Council (CLC): mining issues, 1981-82

Text of a speech to the National Press Club by Stephen Zorn, consultant to the Northern Land Council (NLC), August 1978

3.5 Claim books: preparation (no file for this title was received with the papers)

3.6 Appropriate technology in Central Australia, Centre for Appropriate Technology, Community College of Central Australia, Occasional Publication No. 1, August 1982

3.7 Central Land Council Second Annual Report, 1981-82

3.8 Lake Nash Station, 1983

3.9 Evaluation of the performance of the Northern Land Council (NLC), 1983

3.10 Papers relating to recommendations for the re-organisation of the staff of the Northern Land Council (NLC) made by Jack Cohen, Management Consultant (2 files), 1981

3.11 Northern Land Council (NLC) 24th Full Council meeting: agenda items, June 1982

3.12 Aboriginal associations (empty folder)

3.13 Warumungu land claim (no file for this title was received with the papers)

3.14 Central Land Council (CLC): Welatje-Terre (no file for this title was received with the papers)

Box 92

File Number Title

4.1 Structure for Central Land Council (CLC) 1982 Report

4.2 Central Land Council (CLC): buildings and vehicles, 1983

4.3 Warlmanpa-Warlpiri Land Claim: follow-up (no file for this title was received with the papers)

4.4 Central Land Council (CLC) consultancy report: proof copy, August 1983

4.5 Central Land Council (CLC) report August 1983: appendices

Box 93

A miscellaneous collection of photographs, mainly relating to Coombs’ involvement with Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, 1968-94. Also included are three albums of official photographs for the period 1949-68.

Box 94

Three notebooks containing notes on Aboriginal related issues, one address book and business diaries for the years 1966-69, 1975-76, 1979 and 1986-87.

Box 95

Three folders of speeches and lectures by Coombs, arranged in chronological order for the period 1971-86

Box 96

A bound copy of Coombs Ph.D. thesis ‘Dominions exchanges and Central Bank problems’, submitted to the University of London, December 1933

A bound, photocopied, pre-publication version of A certain heritage: programs for and by Aboriginal families in Australia, H.C. Coombs, M.M. Brandl and W.E. Snowdon, December 1981

A copy of Post-war reconstruction in Australia, edited by D.A.S. Campbell, and published by Australasian Publishing, 1944. Authors include R.G. Menzies, H.C. Coombs, D.B. Copland, Lloyd Ross, H.V. Evatt and Sir John Morris.

Draft typescript of Coombs’ book Trial balance: issues of my working life

Published version of Coombs’ book Trial balance: issues of my working life, Sun Book 1983

Addition 2 December 1998 (1970-92)

This addition was acquired through the executors of Dr Coombs’ estate. The bulk of the material consists of a miscellaneous collection of Coombs’ writings and includes books, journal articles, reports and Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES) Working Papers. Much of the material was either duplicated in the 1996 addition to the collection, or held in the Library’s general collection and therefore has not been retained. The material retained has been listed below.

Box 97

Draft typescript of Coombs’ book Trial balance: issues of my working life

Transcript of a filmed interview with Coombs by Robin Hughes for the Film Australia series ‘Biography’, 1992

H.C. Coombs, ‘John Curtin – a consensus Prime Minister?’, Arena, No. 69, 1984

The Crocodile Hole report, Kimberley Land Council: report of the conference on Resource Development and Kimberley Aboriginal Control at which Coombs was the keynote speaker, Crocodile Hole, 1991

A.B. Costin and H.C. Coombs, ‘Farm planning for resource conservation’, Trees and Victoria’s Resources, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1982

H.C. Coombs, ‘Economic change and political strategy’, Social Alternatives, Vol. 2, No. 4, June 1982

Photocopy of the chapter on Coombs from Profiles of Power, published by The Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1970

A collection of biographical material on Coombs, taken from various sources

Three files:

· Reserve Bank correspondence, 1973-85

· Correspondence, project proposal and grant application to the Reserve Bank Financial and Economic Research fund relating to a proposed book by Coombs on his career as an economist, 1978-90

· Correspondence with MacMillan publishers about publication of two books by Coombs, 1983

Appendix 1: Alphabetical Index to General Correspondence in Box 86 and Box 87

ADAMS, Phillip

ALCORSO, Claudio

BALDER, B.G.

BALDWIN, K.

BARSH, Russell

BATTERSBY, Jean

BAUER, F.H.

BAUME, Peter, Senator

BECK, Lawrence

BEDFORD, Dicky

BERMAN, Tricia

BRANDL, Maria

BUTCHER, Elizabeth

BUTTON, John, Senator

BYRNES, Jill

CAIRNS, J.

CARLTON, Teddy

CASTLES, Francis G.

CHANEY, Fred, Senator

CHRISTIE, Michael

CHRISTOPHERSEN, Chris

CLEMENT, Cathie

COLEBY, A.L. (Tony)

COULTER, John, Senator

CRAIG, David P.

CROUGH, Greg

CURTIS, David R.

DAWKINS, John

DAYMBALIPU

DEXTER, B.G.

DOBSON, Barbara

DODSON, Michael

DOOGUE, Geraldine

DOWNING, Jim, Rev

ELDERTON, Cath

FANNING, Vanessa

FIGGIS, Penny

FIRTH, Gerald

FITZWARRYNE, Carolyne

GARNETT-JONES, Dr Sam (note: filed under Jones)

GINN, Averil

GOSS, Wayne

GRASBY, Al

GREEN, John

HAND, Gerry

HARPE, Jerry de la

HATTON, Steve

HAWKE, Robert J.L.

HAY, David

HAYDEN, Bill

HENGER, Ralph

HERBERT, Xavier

HERMES, Michael

HIATT, Les

HOCKING, Barbara

HOHNEN, Ross

HOLDING, Clyde

HOLLINSWORTH, David

HUNTER, S.N., Prof

JACKSON, Sue

JONAS, William, Dr

JONES, Caroline

KAMENER, Martin

KATONA, Jacquier

KERR, Duncan

KESTEVEN, Sue

LANGTON, Marcia, Prof

LAST, Mike

LEA, David, Prof

LENDON, Nigel

LINDSAY, Diana

LOVEDAY, Peter

McGILL, Stuart

McGUINESS, M.

McMAHON, Paul

McMAHON, Sir William

MANSELL, Michael

MARIKA, Bakamumu

MICHAELS, Eric

MILBOURNE, Ray

MORSE, Brad

MOSLEY, Geoff

MOW, Leon

MOWALJARLI, David

MOWBRAY, Martin

MUIRHEAD, J.H., Justice

MULRENNAN, Monica

MULVANEY, John, Prof

MUNDINE, Kaye

MUNUNGURRITJ, Raymattja

MUNUNJGI, Raymattja

MYERS, Peter

NOSSAL, Sir Gustav

PALMER, Maudie

PARSONS, Mike

PEARSON, Noel

PHILLIPS, Sir John

PIERLUIGI, Claudio

PYNE, Colleen

PURVIS, Bob

REDPATH, Norma

RICKLEFS, Merle, Prof (see correspondence with Crough)

ROBINSON, Cathy

ROSE, Debbie

SAWER, Geoffrey, Prof

SAWYER, Kim

SHARP, Nonie

SNOWDON, Warren

STANNER, W.E.H., Prof

STATIS, Elizabeth

STEWART, Jan

SULLIVAN, Patrick

SYKES, Bobbi

THOMAS, Joe

TICKNER, Robert

TONER, J.B.

TOZER, Peter

TRIGG, Ms

TURNELL, Sean

TURY, Irene

VINER, R. I. (Ian)

VON STURMER, Jon

WARD, Ben

WARDROP, Martin J.

WALKER, Denis

WALKER, Kath

WATSON, Don

WESTBURY, Neil

WETTENHALL, Roger, Prof

WHITE, Leon

WHITE, Patrick

WHITLAM, E.G. (Gough)

WILLIAMS, Nancy

WOLFE, Jackie

YUNUPINGU, Galarwuy

Created April 1986.
Last modified September 2008.