MS 9024
Papers of Phillip Toyne



Summary

  • Papers of Phillip Toyne
  • 1967-1994
  • 9 metres (61 boxes) + 1 folio box

Access

Part available for research; part requires permission for research (Series 11, Folders 72, 78, 80, 81; Series 13, Folders 2, 9); part not available for research until 2023 (Series 12, Folders 4-10). Not for loan.

Provenance

This collection was donated by Toyne in four instalments, on 20-21 October 1994, 3 November 1994 and 29 January 1997. It contains a wide variety of materials, including diaries and notebooks, working and reference files, photographs, slides, tape and video recordings.

Scope and Content

The collection consists broadly of three main parts, reflecting three phases of Toyne's work from 1979 - 1994.

The first part contains diaries, notebooks and working files from Toyne's years in Central Australia, principally from the years 1979-86. There is a strong emphasis on land rights issues, beginning with the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981, concerning which Toyne co-authored the book, Growing up the country - the Pitjantjatjara struggle for their land (1984). There is also a substantial amount of material on the Ayers Rock /Uluru title transfer in 1985, the management of Uluru National Park and the defamation action against Paul Everingham which lasted from 1985-94. The material in this first part is supplemented by further collections of photographs, slides and video recordings.

The second part of the collection consists primarily of research files and a small number of working files from Toyne's years as Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation (1986-92). These formed the basis of his postgraduate environmental law course, taught at the Australian National University in 1993-94, which was broadcast as an eight-part radio series on ABC Radio National and published as The reluctant nation - environment, law and politics in Australia (1994).

The third main part of the collection contains research files and working files from Toyne's involvement as a consultant to the Federal Government on developing a response to the Mabo judgement and drafting the Native Title Bill (1993).

Series 11 and 12 have been kept in their original order. Series 6 was originally in alphabetical order for approximately half of the files, and this order was adopted for arranging the second half of the series. In the smaller series the original order has often been kept in part, with the addition of closely related material which was dispersed throughout the collection. Series 14 (photographic materials) was completely reorganised.

Biographical Note

Phillip Toyne was born in Melbourne in 1947 and educated at the University High School, matriculating in 1964. He completed a Bachelor of Law at the University of Melbourne in 1970 and a Diploma of Education at La Trobe University in 1972. As detailed below, in 1973-1986 he worked in Central Australia, mainly representing Aboriginal people on a wide range of legal matters, particularly in the area of land rights. In October 1986 he was appointed Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation and continued in that position till 1992. In 1993-94 he took up a position as Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, ANU. In late 1994 he was appointed Executive Director of the Environmental Strategies Directorate in the Department of the Environment.

1973-74 Teacher in one-teacher Aboriginal school at Haasts Bluff, 250km west of Alice Springs.
1975 Completed articles with J.Zigouras & Co., Melbourne
1975-78 Solicitor for the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (CAALAS), Alice Springs, mainly doing criminal defence work.
1976 Began attending meetings of Pitjantjatjara Council giving legal and political advice on negotiations for land rights with the Dunstan Government in South Australia. Principal negotiator with that government on the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act. Unsuccessful meetings with the Court Government over similar legislation in Western Australia.
1977 (Nov) - 1978 (May) Seconded to the Central Land Council as junior counsel in the Warlpiri-Gurintji Land Claim involving conservation issues relating to Tanami Wildlife Sanctuary.
1979-82 Lawyer to the Pitjantjatjara Council. Appeared as counsel in the Ayers Rock land claim.
1980 Completed negotiations leading to the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 being passed in South Australia. Extensive dealings with conservation groups in South Australia over Aboriginal ownership claims to the unnamed conservation park, and resisting changes to the Pastoral Act to provide freehold titles to cattle stations in the far north.
1982
  • Lobbied the Fraser Government for the direct grant of title to traditional owners of Ayers Rock.
  • Principal adviser to Ngaanyatjarra Council in seeking support from the Western Australian Government for land title legislation for Central Reserves in that state.
  • Negotiation of the first social and environmental impact agreement with the Shell company over the petroleum exploration program in the Gibson Desert area, Western Australia.
1982-86 Solicitor and barrister, Alice Springs established private practice (November 1982) working mainly for Aboriginal groups on land related matters.
1983
  • Successfully lobbied the Hawke Government for direct grant of title to traditional owners of Ayers Rock.
  • Appearance as Counsel for numerous Kimberley and Western Desert Aboriginal groups before the Seaman Inquiry into Aboriginal land rights.
1984
  • Negotiated with the Federal Government Royal Commission into British Atomic weapons tests on Pitjantjatjara lands, Maralinga.
  • Principal negotiator for traditional owners on legislation for the transfer of Uluru National Park.
  • Appointed to the Federal Government's Lawyers Advisory Panel on National Land Rights legislation.
  • Co-author of the book Growing up the country - the Pitjantjatjara struggle for their land published by McPhee Gribble /Penguin.
1985
  • Completed negotiations on Ayers Rock title transfer and lease-back arrangements.
  • Negotiated funding for traditional owners, Uluru, to produce film on Aboriginal significance of Uluru.
  • Jointly negotiated a Pitjantjatjara /Amoco joint venture to explore for oil on Pitjantjatjara Lands, with extensive social and environmental monitoring and protection provisions.
  • Elected to membership of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
1986
  • Retained to liaise with Amoco on oil exploration program, teaching cultural orientation courses to oil workers.
  • Legal adviser to the Uluru Board of Management.
  • Co-author of the Uluru National Park plan of management.
1986-1992 Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation.
1988 Appointed a member of the National Task Force on Land Degradation.
1989 Appointed a member of the National Population Council.
1990
  • Appointed a member of the Primary Industries and Energy Research Council
  • Appointed a member of the Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee
  • Member of the Prime Minister's Roundtable on Ecologically Sustainable Development.
1991 Appointed to the Uluru Board of Management as the representative of the Minister for the Environment
1993-94 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, Faculty of Law, Australian National University, Canberra
1993
  • Appointed to the Commonwealth Government's National Landcare Advisory Committee
  • Retained as consultant to the Federal Government to advise on the development of a response to the Mabo judgement and to draft legislation.
1994 Member of the Australian Council of Social Service, Future of Work Commission.
1994-97 Executive Director, Environmental Strategies Directorate, Department of the Environment, Canberra (commencing November 1994).

Series List

Central Australian Papers (1978-86)
1 Central Australia: diaries and notebooks (1979-85)
2 Growing up the country - the Pitjantjatjara struggle for their land (1984)
3 Central Australia: working files (1979-86)
Australian Conservation Foundation (1986-92)
4 Australian Conservation Foundation: general files (1986-92)
5 Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee (1990-93)
Research files
6 Conservation and Aboriginal issues - background research files (1978-94)
Australian Centre for Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, Australian National University (1993-94)
7 Australian Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, A.N.U. (working files)
8 Environmental Law Course 1993
9 The reluctant nation - environment, law and politics in Australia (1994)
10 Committees and councils 1993-94
Mabo and the Commonwealth Native Title Bill
11 Land rights, Mabo and the Native Title Bill - background files
12 Mabo and the drafting of the Native Title Bill (1993) (working files)
13 Personal papers
14 Photographs
15 Video recordings
16 Material relating to the defamation case against Paul Everingham
(Additions of 21 October 1994 and 29 January 1997)

Collection Description

Series 1: Central Australia: Diaries and Notebooks (1979-1985)

This series contains diaries and notebooks kept by Toyne while he was working in a series of different positions in Central Australia from 1979 to 1986. Toyne first went to Central Australia in 1973 as a teacher at Haasts Bluff. From 1979-82 he worked as a lawyer for the Pitjantjatjara Council, completing the negotiations leading to the passing in South Australia of the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981, and began negotiations for the Ayers Rock title transfer. From 1982-86 he established a private practice as a solicitor and barrister in Alice Springs. During this period he was involved in such matters as the Royal Commission into British atomic weapons tests on Pitjantjatjara lands at Maralinga, the completion of the negotiations for the Ayers Rock title transfer and the negotiation of a Pitjantjatjara /Amoco joint venture agreement on oil exploration.

Folder
1 Diary, 1979
2-4 Diaries, 1981-83
5-6 Diaries, 1984-85
7 Notebook, January 1979 - September 1980
8 Notebook, January 1980 - 1985
9 Notebook, March 1981 - 1985
10 Notebook, December 1982 - January 1985

Series 2:Growing up the Country - the Pitjantjatjara Struggle for Their Land (1984)

This series contains a sequence of drafts for the book, Growing up the country - the Pitjantjatjara struggle for their land (McPhee Gribble /Penguin 1984) which Toyne co-authored with Daniel Vachon. The book recounts the formation of the Pitjantjatjara Council in 1976 and their subsequent struggle for land rights, leading to the passing of the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 in South Australia. See also Series 11 / 2-3.

Folder
1-4 Early drafts
5 Manuscript originals, chapter 5
6 Manuscript originals, chapters 6 & 7
7 Manuscript originals, chapter 8
8 Manuscript originals, chapters 9 & 10
9 Drafts, chapters 8-10
10 Drafts, Preface & chapter 10
11 Drafts, Introduction to chapter 3
12 Drafts, Introduction to chapter 4
13 Drafts, chapters 5 & 6
14 Draft, chapter 8
15 Drafts, chapters 9 & 10
16 Drafts, chapters 4, 6 & 8
17 Drafts, extras
18 Drafts, Introduction to chapter 4
19 Complete draft, Introduction to chapter 4
20 Complete draft, chapters 5 - 7
21 Complete draft, chapters 8 - 10, with notes and correspondence about the publication of the book.
22 Copy of the first edition, reprinted 1987.

Series 3: Central Australia: Working Files (1979-86)

This series consists of most of Toyne's working files during his years in Central Australia, in particular from the period 1979-1986. The files contain correspondence, reports, articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, resource development agreements and acts of parliament.

The files in this sequence were not added to after Toyne left Alice Springs in 1986. Those Central Australian files that continued to be added to and used till 1993-94 are located in Series 6. So, for example, the majority of the Uluru files are in this series but those that continued to be added to and used up to the writing of The reluctant nation (1994) are located in Series 6.

Folder
1 AEF Mama Garunpa and Antakirinja Inc.
2 Conservation and Aboriginal rights (including material on Uluru National Park, Kakadu Stage III and Arnhem Land Aboriginal Land Trust)
3 Ranger Uranium Project - agreement
4 Western Australian Land Rights
5 Working group on indigenous populations
6 Uniting Church of Australia - report on the Federal Government's preferred position paper.
7 Mining precedents, for agreements between Aboriginal people and exploration companies.
8 East Kimberley Impact Assessment Project
9 R.H. Bartlett, 'Mineral rights on Aboriginal lands and reserves in Australia' (1982)
10 National land rights
11 Sacred sites
12 Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1967; Claim by the Warlpiri and Kartangarurru-Kurintji (1978)
13 Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 with amendments
14 Gerhardy v. Brown, High Court of Australia: judgement 1985
15 'A question of justice', an examination of the land rights amendments
16 Ngaanyatjarra Council Submission - Aboriginal Land Inquiry, Western Australia, December 1983
17 Central Land Council - source documents on national land rights, May 1985
18 Letter from the Aboriginal Embassy / Commission to Europe and North America to the Sunday Telegraph, 13 January 1984;
ABC film proposal c.1984
19-21 International Resource Development Agreements
22 Notes relating to work with Amoco, 1986 plus other notes.
  Uluru files and materials
23 Proposal for...a regional Pitjantjatjara /Yankunytjatjatjara Art and Craft Centre based at Ayers Rock, September 1983
24-25 Ayers Rock, Uluru National Park (Ayers Rock and Mt. Olga) 1984
26-27 Ayers Rock, Uluru National Park (Ayers Rock and Mt. Olga) 1984
28 Aboriginal Affairs - information: Uluru handover /leaseback
29 Ayers Rock title handover day preparations 1: correspondence, minutes and memoranda
30 Ayers Rock title handover day preparations 3: pamphlets
31 Ayers Rock title handover day preparations 4: public relations and media, plus miscellaneous papers (includes a radio interview on 3AW,
  between D. Hinch and Toyne on 8 October 1985 on the Ayers Rock handover).
32 Ayers Rock title handover day preparations 5: the ceremony
  Ayers Rock title handover day preparations 6: the memorial plaque
33 Ayers Rock title handover day preparations 7: press clippings and media comment
34 Ayers Rock title handover day preparations 8: invitations

Ayers Rock title handover day preparations 9: funding
Ayers Rock title handover day preparations 10: combined Aboriginal organisations - minutes

35-37 Handover of Uluru (including Uluru Board of Management material)
38-41 Ayers Rock (Uluru) plan of management
42 Uluru management 1: correspondence
43-47 Land rights and other Aboriginal issues - newspaper clippings 1985-86, 1993

Series 4: Australian Conservation Foundation - General Files (1986-92)

This series consists of a small amount of Toyne's personal papers from his years as Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation (1986-92). The collection mainly comprises notebooks, speeches, conference papers and newspaper clippings. (The bulk of Toyne's papers from these years are held with the records of the Australian Conservation Foundation, now held in the National Library's Manuscript Collection at MS 9429).

Folder
1 Notebook, 1988-91
2 Notebook, 1991; notes relating to 'Labor in Power', ABC special documentary
3-9 Speeches - Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), 1987-92
10 Box list of archives and files - ACF
11 'Aborigines and development in the East Kimberley', Australian National University Public Affairs Conference, 11-13 May 1987
12 Aborigines and conservation - Habitat articles
13-15 The National Population Council's refugee review, vol.1 (draft, 12 February 1991); vol.2 (draft, 15 February 1991) and draft (23 May 1991).
16-22 Newspaper clippings - ACF, 1986-92

Series 5: Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee (1990-93)

This series comprises Toyne's papers as a member of the Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee, a committee established to provide advice to the Commonwealth Government on genetic manipulation issues. Toyne was appointed as a member of this committee in 1990 and also became a member of the Planned Release Sub-Committee. Toyne resigned from the GMAC committee on 1 July 1993. The papers were retained in their original order and include correspondence, agendas, committee papers and reports, draft guidelines, press releases and annual reports.

16 Folders

Series 6: Conservation and Aboriginal Issues - Background Research Files (1978-94)

This series is an amalgamation of background research files received in the original donation of 20 October 1994 and similarly arranged files received in the second addition of 3 November 1994. The first half of the files in this series were originally arranged in alphabetical order and this order was adopted for arranging the second half of the series. These research files formed the basis of the postgraduate environmental law course which Toyne taught in 1993 at the Australian Centre for Environmental Law, Australian National University, and which in turn were used for an eight-part radio program produced for ABC's Radio National and published in the book, The reluctant nation (1994).

The series includes correspondence, minutes, articles, reports, newspaper clippings, notes, speeches, legal papers and tape recordings.

Folder
Aborigines
1 Aborigines and environment: Aboriginal joint management
2-3 Aborigines and environment: Aboriginal land rights
4 Aboriginal issues - general references
5 Ayers Rock land title
6 Uluru title transfer 1: correspondence and memoranda
7 Uluru title transfer 2: Parliamentary debate
8-9 Uluru title transfer 3: drafting instructions: parliamentary counsel
10 Uluru title transfer 6: draft lease and ancillary agreements
11 Uluru National Park management: new plan - 1: correspondence
12-13 Uluru National Park management: new plan - 2: minutes
14 Uluru National Park management: new plan - 3: drafts
15 Uluru National Park management: new plan - 4: press releases
16 Uluru National Park management: new plan - 5: rent money
17 Uluru National Park management: new plan - 6: Board meeting working materials and documents.
18 Uluru management - 3: Board agenda and minutes
19 Land rights, Northern Territory
20 Phillip Toyne: personal - 2: correspondence
Antarctica
21 Articles including DFAT draft conservation strategy for the Australian Antarctic Territory (October 1993)
22 Greenpeace reports 1991-92
23 Speeches, articles including material on the Antarctic Treaty
24 Articles including the 1993 Conference on a conservation strategy for the Australian Antarctic Territory.
Australian Conservation Foundation
25 Papers: general
26 Election material (media releases)
Australian Heritage Commission
27 National estate and the AHC
28 Regional assessment, AHC
Biological diversity
29 Convention on biological diversity: legal brief
30 Canada - environment, general
31-32 Commonwealth Environment Protection Agency (CEPA)
Clinton /Gore
33-35 General file
36-38 Seed money file
Coastal zone
39 [Coronation Hill - see Kakadu]
40 Constitution, cabinet, case law
Daintree
41 Newspaper clippings and other material 1981-84
42 Newspaper clippings 1983-84
43 Legal advice; articles 1983-86
44 Newspaper clippings 1984-88; 'The blockade report', 1987
45 Commonwealth position; paper on Resource Assessment Commission.
46 logging; impact of Queensland rainforest logging debate
47 Daintree and Murris
48 S.B.'s Starcke file
49 S.B.'s file on Ravenshoe compensation fallout
Department of the Arts, Sports, the Environment and Territories (D.A.S.E.T.)
50 General material; newspaper clipping on Senator Richardson; budget 1994-95 media release by Senator Faulkner
51 Democrats, Australian
Ecologically sustainable development (ESD)
52-56 Government papers
57 newspaper and magazine articles
58 press releases and letters by business groups, unions and NGO's
59-62 speeches and academic articles
63 general
64 audio tape program (5 tapes)
65-66 Endangered species
67 Environment - database searches
68-70 Environmental Impact Assessment Process (Commonwealth) and 'reform'
71 European material
Federalism and the environment
72 Australia
73 Canada and the United States
74 'Fightback' (Coalition policy statement)
Forests
75 Tasmanian forests 1984-85
76 Tasmanian forests 1986-87
77 Tasmanian forests 1986-87
78 Tasmanian forests 1987
79-83 Helsham inquiry 1988-89
84 Helsham: maps and diagrams
85 Helsham: material to be added to draft
86 critiques of Helsham report
87 Tasmanian forests 1988
88 Tasmanian forests 1989
89 Tasmanian forests: general articles 1987-90
90 Tasmanian forests: general commentators
91 Tasmanian forests: legal comment
92-93 Tasmanian forests: miscellaneous
94 Tasmanian forests: ACF file information
95 ACF (file) documents on Helsham /Tasmanian forests
96 National forest policy 1992
97 forests and forest products
98 'Your vote for the forests will save more than trees' Federal election advertisement (3 copies)
99 Franklin River /dam
Fraser Island
100-101 General
102-103 Environmental protection
104 Fraser Island Defenders Organisation (FIDO)
105-107 Great Barrier Reef
108-110 Greenhouse /Ozone
111 Green Independents
112-113 Intergovernmental agreement on the environment
114 International convention on desertification
Kakadu /Coronation Hill
115 newspaper clippings 1986
116 newspaper clippings 1987
117 newspaper clippings 1988
118 newspaper clippings 1989
119 newspaper clippings 1987-91; computer searches
120 newspaper clippings 1989-91
121 newspaper clippings 1990
122 newspaper clippings 1991
123 Hawke /Keating leadership battle (early 1991)
124 newspaper clippings 1992
125 newspaper clippings 1993-4
126 general articles, Coronation Hill
127 timelines; other threats; jobs to do
128 Resource Assessment Commission and Kakadu
129 Resource Assessment Commission: final report vol.2 (extracts) May 1991
130 Coronation Hill case: first decision
131 Coronation Hill case: first decision (second copy); newspaper clippings
132 Peko-Wallsend case(s)
133 Stage III ecology
134 'Kakadu Stage III - conservation zone boundaries', submission by the Australian Conservation Foundation, September 1987; 'Mining and the
  return of the living environment', Mining Industry Council brochure.
135 Coronation Hill: working file, miscellaneous papers
136 Ranger Uranium: environmental record
137 miscellaneous
McArthur River Mine
138 introductory articles
139 chronology of specific events; comments on the McArthur River Project draft environmental impact statement
140-142 discussion papers
143 draft environmental impact statement
144 relevant legislation
145 'Review of environmental impacts McArthur River zinc-lead-silver project', Commonwealth Environment Protection Agency August 1992
146 chronology and copies of 1992-93 correspondence
147 Northern Territory / Commonwealth communications 1993
148 1994 developments
149 documents, including document file A-D
150 documents, including document file E-J
151 land claims, Northern Territory
152 fast tracking
153 Aboriginal issues
154 research and additional papers
155 newspaper clippings and other material
156 working file including a draft of chapter 9, The Reluctant Nation
157 Native vegetation clearance
Opinion polling
158 ANOP research services 1993
159 'How green are we?' Quantum research report
160 copies of handouts
Resource Assessment Commission
161 file
162 reports
Resource security
163 file
164 conference papers 'The challenge of resource security: law and policy' Perth, 23 September 1992
165 State of the environment reporting (Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories)
Tasmanian issues
166-167 Tasmanian issues
168 Tasmanian politics 1988-91 ( including forests and the Wesley Vale Project)
169 'An Australian tragedy - and the man who died to stop it', National Times Magazine 29 March 1976, on Tasmanian conservation issues
Uluru National Park
170 brief history; joint management; newspaper clippings
United Nation Conference on Environment and Development (June 1992)
171 publications and related material
172 Australian national report, December 1991
173-176 newspaper cutting file
177-178 United States Environmental Protection Agency
Water management
179 file
180 conference papers 'Aquifers at risk', ANU February 1993
Wesley Vale project
181 file
182-184 newspaper clippings 1988-93
185 Government documents
186 Wesley Vale files
187 wood /forest usage angle, Huon Forest Products Mill
188 Dioxin angle; guidelines /CSIRO (late 1989)
189 miscellaneous
190 Wet Tropics
191 World Heritage

Series 7: Australian Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, A.N.U., - Working Files

This series contains Toyne's working files as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre for Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, Australian National University in 1993-94. The files contain diaries, teaching and supervision materials, speeches and newspaper clippings.

Folder
1 1993 Diary
2 'Environmental law and policy: an introduction for managers', ACEL course presented March, May 1993 and February 1994
3 Research unit supervision 1993
4-5 Research unit supervision 1994
6-7 Exam papers 1993: take home exam on Starcke (including planning for environmental law course)
8 Teaching matters
9 ACEL Forward Plan
10-11 General material
12 ANU speeches, letters and articles 1993
13 ANU speeches letter and articles 1994: including speech for book launch, 19 September 1994; 'The environment movement and its role in
  changing Australian society', Charles Joseph La Trobe Memorial Lecture, 7 November 1990; quotes and speech preparation materials
14 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander involvement in the Law Faculty
15 Toyne and Johnston vs. Everingham (judgement delivered 29 July 1993)
16 Tax deductions - receipts
17 newspaper clippings and related papers 1993
18-19 Newspaper clippings 1993-94

Series 8: Environmental Law Course 1993

This series consists of introductory course materials, student papers and Toyne's seminar notes from the 1993 postgraduate Environmental Law Course which Toyne taught at the Australian Centre for Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, Australian National University.

Folder
Environmental Law Course 1993
1-2 introductory materials and student papers
3 Great Barrier Reef; Wesley Vale; Lemonthyme-Southern forests
4 Franklin Dam; hazardous waste; Uluru National Park; miscellaneous papers
5 Wet Tropics; course outlines and possibilities for 1994 course
6 introductory materials for course, book and seminar

Series 9: The Reluctant Nation - Environment, Law and Politics in Australia (1994)

This ABC book, and the associated eight-part radio program for ABC Radio National, was developed from the Environmental Law Course (Series 7) and based on the material in the background research files (Series 6). Toyne was the author and co-producer of the Radio program which was broadcast in 1994 as part of the 'Green and Practical' series. The companion book, published by ABC Books in 1994, was "intended to provide a more detailed account of the issues introduced briefly in the radio programs..." (Preface).

Folder
The reluctant nation: 'Green and Practical' ABC Radio Scripts
1 General
2 Programs 1-4
3 Programs 5-7
4 Programs 8-9
The reluctant nation: ABC book
5 Contract and negotiation; correspondence
6 Referees' comments; editorial correspondence
7-8 Toyne's drafts with J.P.'s editing in progress
9 Material for redraft of Franklin chapter (ch.3)
10 Drafts of chapter 4: Uluru National Park and chapter 8: Coronation Hill
11 Drafts on Coronation Hill (ch.8) plus other material
12 Draft of chapter 5: the Wet Tropics of North Queensland
13 Notes for chapter 10: New Federalism
14-15 Complete draft
16-17 Draft (incomplete)
18-19 Draft (incomplete)

Series 10: Committees and Councils 1993-94

In 1993-94 Toyne served on a number of committees and councils, and some of these papers are located in other series. The papers here relate to his positions on the National Committee for United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, to the National Landcare Advisory Committee (appointed 1993), and to the Australian Council of Social Service - Future of Work Commission (appointed 1994).

Folder
1-3 National Committee for United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, Egypt, 5-13 September 1994) - papers 1993-94
4 National Landcare Advisory Committee - papers 1994 (See also Series 11 Folder 77)
5 Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) - Future of Work Commission 1994

Series 11: Land Rights, Mabo and the Native Title Bill - Background Files

This filing sequence was retained in its original order. The files mostly relate to land rights issues, the Mabo judgement and the Commonwealth Native Title Bill. These files form the background to the next series which relates to Toyne's appointment as a consultant to the Federal Government (July - October 1993), to advise on the development of a response to the Mabo judgement and the drafting of the Native Title Bill. The files contain correspondence, reports, submissions, articles, parliamentary acts, conference papers and press clippings.

Folder
1 Uluru-KataTjuta National Park Board of Management - papers, 1992
2 McPhee Gribble: manuscript matters (re: Growing up the country, including galley proofs)
3 Growing up the country: letters, reviews, newspaper articles, media tour itinerary
4 National Federation of Land Councils
 
  • media comment 1
  • minutes of meeting, 26 January 1985
5 Roxby Downs
6 Land rights: Australian submission to the Human Rights Committee
7 Kakadu National Park: tourist development seminar 19-21 September 1984
8 Recognition of Aboriginal customary law
9 Land rights
 
  • Northern Territory
10
  • New South Wales
 
  • Victoria
11-12
  • Queensland
13 Queensland: Nature Conservation Act 1992
14 Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act (1981)
  Constitutional position - indigenous people
Aboriginal issues and nature conservation - press clippings
15 Aboriginal issues and nature conservation - course materials; feedback; notes (1994)
16 Joint management
 
  • Queensland (including material on the Starcke issue)
  • Northern Territory (Uluru; Kakadu)
17-19 Aboriginal issues and conservation: national level analysis
20-23 World Conservation Union (IUCN) - work on indigenous people and sustainability
24 Council for Reconciliation
25-27 Canada - land rights
28-29 Canada - indigenous issues
Folder
30 Dogrib Indians vs. B.H.P.
Whanganui River claim - New Zealand
31 New Zealand, including New Zealand perspectives on the Mabo decision.
32 Attorney-General's mining legislation comparison
33-34 Native Title Act - basic introductory guides
35 Native Title - workshop materials
36 Mabo: social justice package
37 Wik claim
38 Native title claims and Native Title Tribunal
39 Mabo judgement - details
40 Mabo - articles
41 Mabo - articles
42 AIATSIS native title material
43-44 Native Title Act - articles
45-46 Native Title Act - 'Native Title and the Trans Tasman Experience' Conference, 24-25 February 1994
47 Native Title Act - Government legal opinions
48-49 Mabo - comments on draft bill
50 Mabo - comments on drafts of the Native Title Bill
51 Commonwealth Government position papers on the Native Title Bill
52-54 Native Title Bill, including explanatory memoranda for the Native Title Bill 1993
55-57 Mabo - Commonwealth Government documents, including Report of the Interdepartmental Committee, March 1993; and Discussion
  Paper, June 1993
58 Position papers: State and Territory Governments
59 Native Title - Western Australia
60 Mabo - environment groups (especially native title and biological resources)
61-62 "A Team" working documents on Native Title Bill
63 "B Team" and others - comments /papers on Native Title negotiations
64 ATSIC - comments on Native Title negotiations
65 Aboriginal position papers on Mabo
66 Farmers' reactions to Native Title Bill
67 Mining industry reactions to Native Title Bill
68 Position papers
 
  • Industry position papers on Mabo
69
  • Coalition
70 Native Title Bill: anthropological submissions
71 Other organisations: views on Mabo
72 Mabo: Toyne's personal notes and correspondence, including a speech to the conference on 'Mabo and its implications for reconciliation', ANU 6 June 1993 (permission required for research)
73 Makarrata: treaty information
74 Land Council materials (including copies of letters)
75 Mabo: international comparisons
76 Cape York Land Council: consultancy
77 National Landcare Advisory Committee (NLAC) 1993 (See also Series 10, Folder 4)
78 Greening Australia: applications for appointment of Aboriginal Liaison Officer (permission required for research)
79 E.D.G.: environmental consultants
80-81 Dr Dong Pin Hui (papers relating to application for refugee status) (permission required for research)
82 Book proposals and correspondence (including correspondence with Allen and Unwin and Cambridge University Press)
83 Mabo press clippings (including radio and television transcripts)
 
  • 1992; March-April 1993
84
  • May-June 1993
85
  • July-September 1993
86
  • October 1993
87
  • November-December 1993; January-February, April 1994

Series 12: Mabo and the Drafting of the Native Title Bill (1993) - Working Files

This series relates to Toyne's appointment as a consultant to the Federal Government (July - October 1993), to advise on the development of a response to the Mabo judgement and the drafting of the Native Title Bill..

Folder
1 The Mabo judgement
2 Mabo and national parks
3 New Zealand - indigenous sea rights; the Waitangi tribunal
4 Mabo: drafting instructions I (not available for research until 2023)
5 Mabo: drafting instructions II (not available for research until 2023)
6 Mabo: drafting instructions III (not available for research until 2023)
7 Mabo: alternative drafting instructions (not available for research until 2023)
8 Mabo: drafting instructions IV (not available for research until 2023)
9 Mabo: correspondence (not available for research until 2023)
10 Mabo: social justice package (not available for research until 2023)

Series 13: Personal Papers

This series contains Toyne's personal files from 1974-94, two folders of press clippings relating to his career and associated material.

Folder
1 University High School magazines, 1963-64
2 Correspondence - wedding, 1981 (permission required for research)
3 Papers relating to Aboriginal matters - copy of Uluru Park lease; minor research project about Uluru National Park (1992); personal correspondence; Macau Light Films brochure
4 Personal file, 1974-91
5 Personal file, 1986-92, including application for Director, A.C.F.
6 Personal file, 1973-92
7 Press clippings and articles on Toyne - Central Australia and A.C.F., including some correspondence
8 Press articles on Toyne - Time Australia, 7 May 1990 p.50; FMG December-January 1991 p.54
9 Personal file, 1992-94, Australian National University (permission required for research)

Series 14: Photographs

This collection, of largely unidentified photographic materials, includes an important series of photographs and slides from Toyne's years in Central Australia, particularly from 1976-86.

Folder
1-3 Central Australian photographs
4 Central Australian, A.C.F. and later photographs
5-6 Photographic negatives
7 Negative prints
8 Negative prints
9-12 Overseas and miscellaneous photographs
13 Slide collection
Slide Collection (14 boxes of slides)

Series 15: Video Recordings

The series contains several educational and promotional videos as well as a number of personal recordings of relevant programs.

Folder
1 Growing up the country - promotional video
2 Ayers Rock under claim
3 A.P. PEL video
4 Numerous T.V. items on Uluru handover
5 Tuxworth /Ayers Rock: Good Morning Australia off-air copy, 9 October 1985
6 Looking for oil on Aboriginal Land
7 Four Corners (ABC): program on Maralinga, 9 December 1985
8 Four Corners (ABC): program on land degradation
9 Four Corners (ABC): program on Antarctica
10 Phillip Toyne's address to the National Press Club, 27 March 1991

Series 16: Material Relating to the Defamation Case Against Paul Everingham

This series relates to the defamation action which Phillip Toyne and Ross Johnston brought against Paul Everingham, then Federal Member for the Northern Territory. The action related to comments made by Everingham on 14 March 1985, at the time of the announcement that Ayers Rock would be leased from the Mutitjulu community after the transfer of title. The series consists of both papers on the proceedings of the defamation action and background files of press clippings and transcripts from the period. The materials were donated in two additions, on 21 October 1994 and 29 January 1997.

Folder
1-4 Background file of press clippings and transcripts (1978-86) relating to defamation action
5 Toyne's computer files 1993-94 (2 disks)
6-7 Proceedings of the defamation action
8-11 Proceedings of the defamation action: copy of reasons for judgement; appeal proceedings and settlement; letters of support and donors' campaign
12-15 Background papers relating to defamation action, 1981-86: press clippings, transcripts, speeches and correspondence
16 Background material relating to defamation action: five tape recordings, 1982-85

Box List

Box Series Folder
1 1 1-4
2 1 5-10
3 2 1-9
4 2 10-17
5 2 18-22
5 3 1-3
6 3 4-10
7 3 11-17
8 3 18-25
9 3 26-33
10 3 34-41
11 3 42-47
12 4 1-9
13 4 10-18
14 4 19-22
14 5 1-5
15 5 6-13
16 5 14-16
16 6 1-5
17 6 6-13
18 6 14-22
19 6 23-31
20 6 32-40
21 6 41-49
22 6 50-58
23 6 59-67
24 6 68-76
25 6 77-85
26 6 86-94
27 6 95-97; 99-104
28 6 105-112
29 6 113-121
30 6 122-130
31 6 131-139
32 6 140-148
33 6 149-157
34 6 158-166
35 6 167-168; 170-175
36 6 176-184
37 6 185-191
Folio box 6 98, 169
38 7 1-8
39 7 9-17
40 7 18-19
40 8 1-6
41 9 1-9
42 9 10-17
43 9 18-19
43 10 1-5
44 11 1-8
45 11 9-16
46 11 17-24
47 11 25-32
48 11 33-40
49 11 41-49
50 11 50-58
51 11 59-67
52 11 68-71; 73-77
53 11 79; 82-87
53 12 1-2
54 12 3
54 13 1; 3-8
55 14 1-7 (5 & 6 in coldstore)
56 14 8-13 (13 held in coldstore)
57 14 slide collection (held in coldstore)
57 15 1-10
58 11 72, 78, 80, 81
58 13 2, 9
59 12 4-10
60 16 1-7
61 16 8-16
Last updated 7 April 2010