MS 802 Papers of H. C. Coombs
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
Oakmans 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 Librarys 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 Childrens 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
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
Whos 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 Kates 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 Ministers 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 Councils 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 Kates 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 Councils farewell dinner for Coombs retirement as
Chancellor, 13 May 1976
255 ANU subscription dinner, 29 April 1976
The Chairmans 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 peoples money preparation material
272 Other peoples 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 Womens 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
File Number Title
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
File Number Title
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
File Number Title
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
File Number Title
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
File Number Title
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
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File Number Title
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 Australias
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
Box 59
File Number
Title
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
Box 60
File Number Title
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
Box 61
File Number Title
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 Australias 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
Box 62
File Number Title
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
Box 63
File Number Title
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
Box 64
File Number Title
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
Box 65
File Number Title
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
Box 66
File Number Title
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
Box 67
File Number Title
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
Valentines 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
Box 68
File Number Title
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
Box 69
File Number Title
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, Weve started waking up: Aboriginal
conceptions for the style and content of their childrens education:
CRES Working Paper, WS/WP2: 1981
16.7 Warren Snowdon, Weve got the culture, youve got
to change: paper presented at the North Australia Research Units
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
Box 70
File Number Title
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
Box 71
File Number Title
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 1990s 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
Box 72
File Number Title
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
Box 73
File Number Title
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
Box 74
File Number Title
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
Box 75
File Number Title
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 Ministers 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
Box 76
File Number Title
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
Box 77
File Number Title
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
Box 78
File Number Title
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
Box 79
File Number Title
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
Box 80
File Number Title
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
Box 81
File Number Title
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
Box 82
File Number Title
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 Australias 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
Australias 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, Australias 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
Forums 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, Australias 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 Librarys 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 Victorias 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.
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