Guide to the Papers of Janet Hawley

Interview notes from Kyol Blakeney, Aboriginal scholarship student from Werris Creek, NSW; and Jonny Samengo, in charge of SCOTS indigenous students program. For Two Of Us column published in Good Weekend Magazine, Nov 5 2011, 2011 (File) - Box 1

Notes from Janet Hawley: As a result of this story, Scots Old Boys donated a total of $6 million to the school's indigenous scholarship program !!!).

Interview notes with Dr Anderson in his Melbourne home in 1997, also with his wife Janice and children. Also interview notes with Geoff Andrews in Tasmania - a fellow soldier who was first on the scene to assist Dr Anderson in Vietnam. Letters from family and readers. Story drafts for feature published in GW Magazine, 1997., 1997 (File) - Box 1

Notes from Janet Hawley: Probably the most memorable and impressive person I ever interviewed. He was a young doctor in Vietnam, on patrol, and blinded when the man in front trod on a landmine. It was same day that Man first landed on the Moon. He subsequently became one of the characters in REDGUM'S famous song I WAS ONLY NINETEEN. Totally blinded, He re-trained to become a psychiatrist. HE CAUGHT THE TRAM TO UNI WITH HIS GUIDE DOG, AND CARRIED A HUGE OLD REEL TO REEL TAPE RECORDER, THEN TRANSCRIBED ALL HIS LECTURES INTO BRAILLE ON A TYPEWRITER.

Interviews with elderly surviving World War 11 veterans, for a GW Magazine Anzac Day feature, April 25, 2008. Joe Madeley; Albert Le-Merton, John Dickson, Colonel John Watch, 2008 (File) - Box 1

Interviews for a second GW story, A Two of Us Column on Joe Madeley and his Vietnam veteran son, Leon Madeley, published Anzac Day issue, 2011. Story drafts included., 2011 (File) - Box 1

Interview notes with Barbara Arrowsmith Young, in Toronto, Canada, at the headquarters of her revolutionary school for gifted students with severe learning difficulties - where students gain amazing progress using the Arrowsmith Young methods. Now being introduced into Australia. Interviews also with students, and some of the parents. GW Magazine feature March 2012., 2012 (File) - Box 1

"The woman who changed her brain."

Interview notes with Isabel Allende, during interviews at her home in San Raphael , California, over two days, including a grand dinner party with all her family, in late 2007. Emails and correspondence to set the interview up and gather background, 2007 (File) - Box 1

Isabel Allende, Celebrated author, the queen of Latin American fiction, who lives in California.

Interview notes with her husband and daughter in law and children. Story drafts. Feature published in GW Magazine March 15, 2008, to co-incide with publication of her new book, The Sum of the Days, 2008 (File) - Box 1

Interviews notes with Geraldine, when I stayed at her home for three days in 2007, to write a feature on her new book - People Of The Book, 2007 (File) - Box 1

Australian author Geraldine Books, Pulitzer Prize winner, lives in USA on Marthas Vineyard.

Feature published in GW Magazine Dec 2007 to tie in with publication of her new book, 2007 (File) - Box 1

Emails to set up story and visit to Geraldine in USA,, and gather background research. Various story drafts (File) - Box 1

Interviews with Charles Blackman aged 81, in 2010, at his home in Double Bay, where he lived with his carer, 2010 (File) - Box 2

Charles Blackman, Australian artist.

Also interviews with his three former wives - Barbara Blackman, Genevieve De Couvreur, and Tara Blackman, and interviews with his daughter Christabel and son Auguste. More interviews with artist friends Barry Humphries, and Judy Cassab (File) - Box 2

Emails with family and friends setting up interviews and gathering background (File) - Box 2

Some emails and notes contain sensitive confidential material.

Letter and card from Barbara Blackman after feature published in GW Magazine, 2010, 2010 (File) - Box 2

Final draft also of Charles Blackman chapter, for my book, Artists In Conversation, published 2012, 2012 (File) - Box 2

A major retrospective of Francis Bacon works was held at the Art Gallery NSW in 2012. The AGNSW invited Hawley to write a major feature on Francis Bacon, and funded a trip to London and Paris to interview people for this feature (File) - Box 2

Francis Bacon, British artist.

Interview notes from London interviews with Martin Harrison and Gerard Fagginato from the Bacon Estate; also Tim Marlow, art critic; William Feaver art critic; Ivor Braka, legendary Francis Bacon dealer.. Interviews in Paris with Bacon's old friends, Eddie Batache and Reinhard Hassert (File) - Box 2

Emails and correspondence to set up interviews (File) - Box 2

Story drafts. Feature published in GW Magazine, Dark Night, November 2012 (File) - Box 2

Rough draft of AGNSW catalogue with corrections and working notes (File) - Box 2

Notes for Art After Hours lecture Hawley gave at AGNSW with Wendy Whiteley, on the links between Francis Bacon and Brett Whiteley (File) - Box 2

Interview notes with Capon, notebook from China trip to Xian. background research. Emails with Capon, officials, also Kevin lee the freelance photographer Hawley used in China, 2010 (File) - Box 2

(notes from Janet Hawley) Edmund Capon, former longtime director of the Art Gallery of NSW. In November 2010 I went to Xian in China with Capon, to do a feature on the Terracotta Warriors - to tie in with the major exhibition The First Emperor, staged at AGNSW.

Story drafts, working notes (File) - Box 2

Interviews notes included in box - with Save The Kimberley officials; Wayne Bergman, Aboriginal leader; Northern Land Council, Albert Wigan, Aboriginal leader opposing Wayne Bergman.. Officials from environmental groups, oil companies including Woodside, scientists and economists. And politicians, 2008 (File) - Box 3

(notes from Janet Hawley) A highly controversial project , to develop the huge Browse Basin gas reserves, and build a major processing hub and industrial base on James Price Point, just north of Broome - with many arguing sectors. The pro-development WA Government, the oil and gas corporations; the various Aboriginal communities, differing factions and their leaders and spokespersons; the environmentalists who are against the huge development, and the local Broome folk. And the Federal Government. In 2008 I was asked by the Save The Kimberley organisation, to write a major feature explaining all sides of the Browse Basin Gas Fields project. George Negus and Kirsty Cockburn initiated the invitation. It was a mammoth feature to undertake, needing vast research and numerous background interviews.

Separate folder with notes from Peter Garrett, MP, and singer Missy Higgins, who was involved in the protest (File) - Box 3

Notes from visit to Cockatoo island mine site (File) - Box 3

Various drafts of my major feature Pipe Dreams - published in GW Magazine March 2009, 2009 (File) - Box 3

Notes from Janet Hawley: The feature helped air the various environmental concerns, and the groundswell of public opinion began to mount against the massive Browse Gas development at James Price Point - . Woodside has just announced it will not go ahead with the project.

Interview notes and background interviews, and story drafts, 2008 (File) - Box 3

Notes from Janet Hawley: On that same assignment [Brownse Basin Gas Fields], I gathered material to write a travel pages feature, on indigenous run travel accommodation and tours, on the Dampier Peninsula.

Correspondence with publisher Clarence House, UK, 2010 (File) - Box 4

Notes from Janet Hawley: HRH Prince Charles wrote a book called Harmony in 2010. Harper Collins published the book. Harper Collins Australia contacted me, offering an interview with Prince Charles for a feature to appear in GW Magazine. They said Harper Collins UK had been promised this exclusive.. So much correspondence followed. It finally turned out - when I managed to contact Paddy Harverson, communications secretary to HRH - that Harper Collins UK had been promised no such thing! So the trip to London to interview HRH re Harmony never happened. I'd requested time to interview HRH in his garden at Highgrove. But the sequence of emails with Clarence House, UK, on behalf of HRH Prince Charles, is interesting.

Professor Terry Tao, mathematician; Simon Tedeschi, pianist; Jessica Bloom. (pseudonym Beatrix Kiddo,) multi skilled. Interview notes with all three, also with Professor Miraca Gross, director of the gifted education research resource and information centre, university NSW. (File) - Box 4

Story drafts (File) - Box 4

2009 feature in GW Magazine, 2009 (File) - Box 4

Emails to set up story, background research, notebook used on UK trip, story drafts and proofs with corrections, 2012 (File) - Box 4

Notes from Janet Hawley: In 2012, Harper Collins published Grand Tour, a illustrated book of Agatha Christie;s letters home, and photographs, whilst she made a grand tour of the world as a young newlywed. I was sent to Devon, UK, to interview Agatha Christie's grandson, Mathew Prichard, about his memories of his grandmother, and his mother. Rosalind Prichard. I interviewed Mathew Prichard in Torquay, in Greenway, Agatha Christie's grand old home. - now owned by National Trust. And toured the childhood home with him. I also stayed in the Torquay hotel where Christie spent her honeymoon, and met Prichard there also for dinner. Mathew Prichard was then head of Agatha Christie Ltd, a huge literary estate.

Interviews in Beijing, with the major contemporary artists in 2008, for a cover story in GW Magazine, 2008 (File) - Box 4

(Notes from Janet Hawley: This took a huge amount of research and organising to get access to the top artists and interview them in their studios - most interviews done with interpreters. It was quite a coup getting access to these Art Superstars!!

Emails and notes from Hawley's interviews. Research notes, 2008 (File) - Box 4

Interviews with Zhang Xiaogang; Yue Minjun; Xu Bing; Wang Guangyi. (File) - Box 4

More interviews with Guan Wei and Ah Xian - in English, also Ai WeiWei, and Brian Wallace, Australian gallery director in Beijing (File) - Box 4

Visa applications for media visa and audience with Chinese consul in Sydney (File) - Box 4

Story drafts (File) - Box 4

Original piece of artwork by Xu Bing - writing Good Weekend in his trick Chinese alphabet - it looks Chinese at first glimpse, then you can see the English letters hidden in it (File) - Box 4

Interview notes with Adam Cullen in 2008, in his home and studio at Wentworth Falls, and at Kaliman Gallery in Paddington. Phone calls to Cullen when he was in hospital, notes. Emails. Interviews with his cousin, Max Cullen. , and his friend Chopper Read. Story drafts, 2008 (File) - Box 4

Adam Cullen, Australian artist.

Chapter draft from Hawley's book, Artists In Conversation, pub 2012. and revised introduction after Cullen died in 2012, 2012 (File) - Box 4

Interview in 2006 at the time of the making of the film Candy, based on Davies' book, 2006 (File) - Box 4

Luke Davies, Australian writer and poet.

Interview with Davis in Sydney, 2011, to write a feature on her to co-incide with the premier of the film, The Eye Of The Storm, 2011 (File) - Box 5

Judy Davis, Australian actor.

Interviews with her over lunch at Sir Stamford Hotel, Sydney, and lingering on. More interviews by phone, and email (File) - Box 5

Interviews with Fred Schepisi, film director, and co-star Geoffrey Rush, about working with Judy Davis (File) - Box 5

Research notes, story drafts for GW feature profile (File) - Box 5

Interviews with Drewe in 2012, for a profile feature in GW Magazine, to tie in with the publication of his book, Montebello, 2012 (File) - Box 5

Robert Drewe, Australian author

Interviews in Bangalow, near his home. Notes also from his brother, Bill Drewe, and daughter Amy Drewe (File) - Box 5

Various emails , research notes (File) - Box 5

Notes from Janet Hawley: My notes marked on draft of manuscript of Montebello - notes re sections I wanted to quote or ask questions to Drewe about marked parts.

Various story drafts for GW feature. . Page proofs. For GW Magazine (File) - Box 5

Interviews with Chris Tzar, director, Lifestyle Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, Uni NSW, on the profession of exercise physiologists, also interviews with several patients who attend his clinic, discussing the results they are achieving, using diagnosed exercise as medicine, 2012 (File) - Box 5

Notes from Janet Hawley)This feature, 2012, had a huge public response, and thus was of significant public benefit in raising awareness of using diagnosed exercise as medicine.

New draft of chapter on John Firth Smith, after new interviews with him, 2012, for Hawley's book, Artists In Conversation, 2012 (File) - Box 5

John Firth Smith, Australian artists.

Interviews with her at Lake Macquarie, NSW, in 2009, for a feature to tie in with the publication of her new book, Rapture, in GW Magazine, 2009 (File) - Box 5

Nikki Gemmell, Australian author of The Bride Stripped Bare,

Interview with Eleanor Hall, journalist, a friend of Gemmells (File) - Box 5

Emails to set up interviews, story drafts, corrections, background notes (File) - Box 5

Interviews with her in her home in New York, 2001, to link with a Picasso Exhibition at the Art Gallery NSW (File) - Box 5

Notes from Janet Hawley: Francoise Gilot, Picasso's de fact wife for ten years, mother of Paloma and Claude Picasso. This was a major world scoop to gain the interview, and took a long process of persuasion, in letters and phone calls and faxes to Francoise Gilot. The feature in GW Magazine was an enormous success, it was syndicated to over 20 countries eventually, and we had dozens of rave emails from readers - some enclosed.

Interview notes, notes from phone calls, story drafts, proofs, background (File) - Box 5

Draft of chapter for Hawley's book, Artists In Conversation, including up-dated interviews with Henson in 2012, 2012 (File) - Box 5

Bill Henson, photographer.

Email from David Marr, thanking Hawley for help with his lecture on Henson controversy, 2008 (File) - Box 5

Interviews with her in her home and studio, 2008. transcriptions, notes, background interviews with fellow artists, also her husband Graham Jones, who'd worked as a senior executive in London for Mohammed Al Fayed, and knew Dodi Fayed - Princess Diana's lover, who died with her., 2008 (File) - Box 5

Notes from Janet Hawley: Cherry Hood, Australian figurative artist. Best known for portraits of adolescent children.

Emails. Story drafts, corrections (File) - Box 5

Interviews with Wal King in 2o10, when King was still head of Leighton, and constantly in the news for building up Leighton into a major international company. ( King was later pushed out of Leighton in a complex corporate re-structure, and Leighton has slid downwards since.) (File) - Box 6

Notes from Janet Hawley: Wal King, Australian business tycoon, former CEO of Leightons, and one of the highest paid businessmen in Australia .

Interviews for a GW profile, to show the personal side of this very shy , self-made man. Interviews with his wife Denise. Also friends and business colleagues and fellow adventure junkies : Roger Davis, Michael Chaney, Janet Holmes A Court; Kevin Rogers; Ross Grant; Ros Kelly, Penny Bingham Hall, Geoff Dixon (File) - Box 6

Transcriptions, emails, phone calls, story drafts (File) - Box 6

Interviews with Lilley in Melbourne in 2998, mainly about his life up till then, and Summerheights High characters, Visit the school where Summerheights High was filmed, with Lilley. Phone calls, emails. Interviews with his friends and work colleagues (File) - Box 6

Notes from Janet Hawley: Chris Lilley, multi-talented Australian writer, actor, composer, of Summerheights High, We Can Be Heroes, Angry Boys

Notes, story drafts (File) - Box 6

Email from Chris Lilley, thanking Hawley after the feature was published (File) - Box 6

Interviews with Baz Luhrman and various key members of the film crew, on the set of Australia, in Bowen, Queensland, 2007, 2007 (File) - Box 6

Baz Luhrman, Australian film producer/director.

Notes and emails with Luhrman's film company, setting up the visit to the film set (File) - Box 6

Notes from Janet Hawley: I stayed there [the film set] for four days. I also ended up on crutches, when in the dark I put my foot into a deep hole, and cracked my heel bone - no fun.

Interviews with Rove in Los Angeles and Venice Beach in 2007, when hed moved to USA to work there, 2007 (File) - Box 6

Rove McManus, Australian comedian/entertainer.

Transcriptions, background research, interviews with several of his work colleagues and old friends, to build the profile Hawley wrote in GW Magazine, 2011, 2011 (File) - Box 6

Story drafts, emails to set up interviews. Working notebook (File) - Box 6

An original artwork by Rove - He drew Daffy Duck on a paper table napkin, when we lunched at Venice Beach (File) - Box 6

Interviews with her at Manly, 2007 for a feature on current sexuality in society (File) - Box 6

Dr Gabrielle Morissey, Australian sex therapist. Daughter of auther Di Morrissey.

Interviews at their home in Sydney, Walsh Bay, for a Two Of Us feature, GW Magazine, 2007 (File) - Box 6

Notes from Janet Hawley: Peter Muller, legendary Australian architect and Bali expert, and his wife, Carole Muller, Australian artist and anthropologist and Bali expert.

Interview notes with Murray in her Balmain home, also interviews with her son Chris Brown and ex husband John Brown, MP (File) - Box 6

Notes from Janet Hawley: Jan Murray's early high profile came as wife of Federal MP John Brown. She famously had sex on his parliamentary desk with him and dropped her knickers in the boss's ashtray - to show her displeasure that her husband spent so much time in Canberra, leaving her at home in Sydney with their five young children. She and Brown much later on divorced, and in 2010, Murray wrote a book called Sheer Madness, Sex Lies and Politics, detailing her journey from young bride and housewife to educated feminist; true tales of life and love affairs in Canberra, also her journey in understanding her own mental illness, bi polar disorder.

Emails, story drafts and page proofs. (File) - Box 6

Interviews with Olsen, in 2010 for a column The Getting Of Wisdom, GW Magazine, 2010 (File) - Box 6

John Olsen, Australian artist.

Interviews with Olsen at his Bowral home, Owlswood, for a feature in 2011, looking at the last act of life, 2011 (File) - Box 6

Notes from phone calls. Interviews with his son Tim Olsen (File) - Box 6

Story drafts (File) - Box 6

Drafts of two Olsen Chapters from Hawley's book, Artists In Conversation, 2012, 2012 (File) - Box 6

Letter from Olsen, praising Hawley's book (File) - Box 6

Olsen also spoke at the booklaunch.

Interview notes, background, emails from War Memorial staff (File) - Box 7

Notes from Janet Hawley: Ben Quilty, Australian artist, also recent war artist to Afghanistan. I wrote the first interview/feature/profile on Ben Quilty, when he was announced War Artist to go to Afghanistan. This involved having several talks to Quilty before he left for Afghanistan, and also immediately upon his return. I went to Robertson to interview Quilty at his home and studio, over several days. Also interviewed his wife, Kylie Needham, and senior army officer John Oddie, who Quilty was painting. Trip to Canberra War Memorial to meet Quilty there. More visits to Robertson to see progress of paintings over the months, before feature finally published.

Thankyou email from Quilty when Hawley's feature was published in GW magazine in February 2012, 2012 (File) - Box 7

Further emails with Quilty over updating the feature to include a chapter on Quilty in Hawley's book, Artists In Conversation - draft chapter included. Emails from Quilty when Hawley left Fairfax in late 2012 (File) - Box 7

Interviews with him in 2007 in Sydney, during the rehearsal period for Dead Man Walking, the opera he was starring in. Interviews over dinner at Lucios in Paddington, meetings at theatre, coffee, phone and email conversations, 2007 (File) - Box 7

Teddy Tahu Rhodes, opera singer, "barihunk" ( ie sexy baritone) New Zealand born.

Interviews with work colleagues and friends. Story proofs, notes (File) - Box 7

Emails to Richardson's New York publisher, and editor Shelly Wagner, and personal secretary, interview notes, story drafts, research notes., 2011 (File) - Box 7

Notes from Janet Hawley: British Author and arts writer who lives in New York, Picasso's biographer. I interviewed John Richardson in new York, around the same time I interviewed Francoise Gilot ( Picasso's former de facto wife) in new York. Both interviews were "world scoops" to secure, as both Richardson and Gilot are very elderly, reclusive, and rarely grant interviews. It was a long process of persuasion to be able to interview both Richardson, and Gilot, involving may letters, emails, phone calls. I finally interviewed Richardson in his New York apartment over several days in 2011, also visited New York art galleries with him, where he'd curated a Picasso show. Richardson knew Picasso in France, and has been writing his series of multi-volume biographies on Picasso for decades now. He was working on the final volume when I interviewed him.

Interviews with Roxburgh in 2010 during the shooting of the first series of RAKE for ABC TV. Also interviews with Peter Duncan, co-creator of Rake, 2010 (File) - Box 7

Notes from Janet Hawley: I spent several days watching the shoot, and talking to Roxburgh and other actors, including Rachael Griffiths, during the shoot.

Lunch with Roxburgh at Palm Beach and long interview about his life, and the origins of Rake characters (File) - Box 7

Story drafts, emails. Proofs. Working notebook. With possible questions (File) - Box 7

Interviews with him in Melbourne in 2009, at the time he was making a new TV series, John Safran's Race Relations (File) - Box 7

John Safran, controversial Australian comedian, film maker.

Interviews with film and TV colleagues and friends, including Father John McGuire (File) - Box 7

Emails, working notebook, with possible questions story drafts, proofs (File) - Box 7

INTERVIEWS WITH THREE TOP STOCKBROKERS - Marcus Padley in Melbourne, and in Sydney, Charlie Aitken and Bill Bishop, for a GW Magazine feature in 2008, at the time of the major share market crash, after the big boom, 2008 (File) - Box 7

Interview notes, story drafts, background research, emails, notes (File) - Box 7

Updated interview with Tim Storrier, 2012, to include a chapter on Storrier in Hawley's book, Artists In Conversation. Chapter draft, 2012 (File) - Box 7

Tim Storrier, Australian artist.

Interviews with him at the time he was acting in Hilary Bell's new play, The Splinter, for the Sydney Theatre Company, 2012 and interviews with Hilary Bell, 2012 (File) - Box 7

Actor, star of Packed To The Rafters, and numerous TV soap opera series.

Notes, story drafts (File) - Box 7

Further interviews with Garry Shead in 2007, after his wife Judit Shead had died, and a joint exhibition was held of Judit Shead's sculptures, and Garry Sheads paintings, Many feature Judith, 2007 (File) - Box 7

Interviews with Shead in his Bundeena home. Story drafts (File) - Box 7

Further interviews with Shead in 2012, to update a chapter on Garry Shead for Hawley's book, Artists In Conversation. Chapter draft included, 2012 (File) - Box 7

Emails re. Archibald Prize portrait, 2012 (File) - Box 7

Notes from Janet Hawley: Garry Shead also painted me for the 2012 Archibald Prize for Portraiture, but the portrait wasn't selected to be hung. He made changes to the face the night before he sent the portrait in, then regretted doing it, as he lost much of the expression in the face. He plans to re-do the face later on

Copies of Fresco diaries. The original diaries are held by Garry Shead. Three copies of each set were made - one for Janet Hawley, one for Philip Cox, one set for National Library archives, 2012 (File) - Box 8

Notes from Janet Hawley: In January 2012, over a week, Garry Shead painted a large fresco in a glass walled pavilion at the Bermagui property of Philip Cox, architect. It was a long process to organise the fresco, and I basically co-ordinated the project. We were all there while Garry painted the fresco, and I kept a daily diary, with contributions from Garry Shead, photography by his partner Rose Gissing, and entries from other guests staying at the Cox property during the fresco painting. Bill Brown, ABC south coast journalist/cameraman also filmed the fresco being painted, for a film. Philip Cox made a second diary, all cartoon-style drawings, of the fresco progress. The characters in the Cox visual diary include Philip Cox, the architect, Garry Shead the artist, Mark Stanford Fresco assistant, Rose Gissing, Garry's partner and stills photographer. Bill Brown, camera man film maker.

Folder of stories Hawley wrote for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald over the years, also some of these syndicated to interstate and overseas newspapers. Mentions of awards Hawley won. Features and profiles of numerous significant people and subjects (File) - Box 8

Manuscripts during the process of writing and publishing the book. Includes original proposals from the Melbourne-based publisher, Slattery Media, various emails with the book editor, Nancy Ianni, And publicist Chloe Sullivan., 2012 (File) - Box 9

All the various stages of page proofs sent to Hawley. Editors notes and corrects and queries (File) - Box 9

Various versions of the cover design, in different colours - yellow finally selected (File) - Box 9

Files re the book launch, held at Australian Galleries, Paddington; publicity, talks at bookshops and libraries, interview requests (File) - Box 9

Notes re the book during preparation, including many faxes from Jeffrey Smart, Australian artist living in Italy., 1993 (File) - Box 10

Published by University of Queensland Press

Notes and guest list for the booklaunch, at Australian galleries, Paddington, Launch by Better Churcher, then director of the National Gallery of Australia (File) - Box 10

Notes from janet Hawley's speech (File) - Box 10

Guest list for celebratory dinner afterwards at the Bellevue Hotel, Paddington, in a private room upstairs (File) - Box 10

Various letters. Memorabilia, in connection with the book and booklaunch (File) - Box 10

Letters from when Hawley resigned from my first job at the Daily Telegraph, in 1968, and joined The Australian, 1968 (File) - Box 10

Two letters from Clyde Packer (son of Sir Frank Packer), after Hawley interviewed him in Sydney re his book. Clyde was then living in Santa Barbara, California, USA. 1985, 1985 (File) - Box 10

Card from Bengt Danielssen, of Kontiki raft voyage fame - after Hawley interviewed him in Tahiti (File) - Box 10

Notes from Janet Hawley: I'd just sailed to Pitcairn Island to do a feature there, then went on to see Danielssen and his wife in Tahiti.

An original Max Dupain photograph of himself - which Max has drawn over, giving himself a moustache and a circled eye, and feathered cap - and on the photograph he's written - "Staff suggest using retouched version." (File) - Box 10

Notes from Janet Hawley: I interviewed Max Dupain in 1985 for The Age, and this was one of the photographs he handed me, to reproduce with the story. It wasn't used - we used some of his more famous beach photographs.

Also a Xmas card from Mrs Diana Dupain, with an image by son Rex Dupain - after Hawley interviewed Rex Dupain some years later about the feud over Max Dupain's will (File) - Box 10

Letter from Jinx Nolan, daughter of Cynthia Nolan and adopted daughter of Sidney Nolan, who lives in America. Letter after Hawley interviewed her re a feature Hawley wrote on Cynthia Nolan's book on her travels with Sidney Nolan, 1994 (File) - Box 10

Telling card from David Kang (File) - Box 10

Notes from Janet Hawley: As a young man, Kang fired a pistol at Prince Charles in Darling Park during a royal reception. Kang contacted me from the psychiatric hospital where he was held, awaiting trial, and I visited him many times and write an award winning feature about him. Kang avoided prison, on mental grounds, and later became a barrister.

Letters and memorabilia from when Hawley won the BP Arts Media Award, in 1989, and again in 1990 - for feature on Donald Friend, and for feature on Dobell and Joshua Smith portrait, 1989-1990 (File) - Box 10

Letters and memorabilia from when Hawley won the 1989 Walkley Award, for Best Feature. For the last interview with Lloyd Rees, artist. Notes from John Alexander, editor in chief of Sydney Morning Herald, and other media and private people, and Rees family, 1989 (File) - Box 10

Letters from when Hawley won the Walkley Award for Best Feature, 1990, also won the Gold Walkley Award, 1990, for feature on William Dobell and the Joshua Smith Portrait and the famous Archibald Prize dispute. Notes from John Alexander, editor in chief of Sydney Morning Herald, letters, memorabilia. Connected with story and awards. Draft of Hawley's thankyou speech, 1990 (File) - Box 10

It was the first time Joshua Smith had broken his silence, to be interviewed.

Story draft, letters, notes re award for story, UN Peace Prize. My story also reprinted in UN Magazines internationally, 1990 (File) - Box 10

Notes from Janet Hawley: In 1990 I went to Mozambique and Malawi, invited by the United Nations, to write a feature on the 850,000 refugees who'd fled Mozambique and poured into Malawi.

First letter in 1989, after Hawley interviewed him for a feature published in Good Weekend magazine. Story and draft proof enclosed. Letter mentions his trip to Sri Lanka, wartorn, 1989 (File) - Box 10

Notes from Janet Hawley: On back of letter, Smart has written a revealing quote from Degas - explaining some of the mystery behind Smart's own artworks.

Photograph enclosed of Smart's home in Arezzo, Tuscany, in mid summer,. Signed To Janet With Love,. Jeffrey, plus an invitation to visit (File) - Box 10

Second letter from Jeffrey Smart, 1989, with interesting anecdotes and revealing insights and gossip about his old friend, Donald Friend - who I'd recently written about (File) - Box 10

Notes from Janet Hawley: References to Clive James - Smart was painting him.

Letter Hawley received in 1989, from Sri Lanka - after my story on Donald Friend was doing the rounds of Sri Lanka, 1989 (File) - Box 10

Notes from Janet Hawley)Friend once lived there with the Bawa brothers, Geoffrey and Bevis Bawa

Letter from Bill Hayden, Governor General, 1990, inviting Hawley to stay at Yarralumla, 1990 (File) - Box 10

Notes from Janet Hawley)He often rang me for an informal, irreverent chat - I'd interviewed him several times in earlier years. He liked referring to the Queen as "Lizzie" in his phone chats!.

Many examples of interesting letters from Hawley's various editors re stories she was working on; letters from readers, people Hawley interviewed and wrote about, memorabilia about awards (File) - Box 10

from 1979 to 2012 --- from various editors Hawley worked for , from readers, from people Hawley interviewed and written about, various memorabilia and awards. Includes letters from Blanche D'Alpuget, Rosemary Dobson Canberra poet, etc, 1979 - 2012 (File) - Box 11

Includes covering Frank Sinatra visit to sing at the opening of Sanctuary Cove, Gold Coast gated community. 1988, and Sinatra calling Australia media women "hookers";, 1979 - 1990 (File) - Box 11

Long series Hawley wrote on Aborigines, visiting communities all over Australia, 1979 - 1990 (File) - Box 11

Profile on Jeff Fenech, boxer - won award -, 1979 - 1990 (File) - Box 11

Two photographs that Jeff Fenech autographed for Hawley's sons, Sam and Ben, 1979 - 1990 (File) - Box 11

Interviews with young Kate Grenville, 1979 - 1990 (File) - Box 11

Features Hawley wrote in China, after a month travelling in China, 1987., 1987 (File) - Box 11

Stories from Bali (File) - Box 11

Front page story Hawley wrote on Australia Day, 1988 - Bicentennial Day, 1988 (File) - Box 11

(Notes from Janet Hawley: I'd flown back to Sydney that morning, after interviewing ex President Marcos in Hawaii.

Includes interviews with Anthony Burgess, Tom Keneally, Dymphna Cusack' Grahame Bond, Patrick mcNee, Christina Stead' Edna O/Brien, Dr Christian Barnard, first heart transplant doctor; Francis James, Ravi Shankar, Rudolph Nureyev, Sean Connery. Also columns Hawley wrote under THE FEMALE MIND, and Martin Collins column items, 1969 (File) - Box 12

Letter from Bruce Petty - re a job offer for Hawley on Womans Day - Deputy editor (File) - Box 12

Notes from Janet Hawley: I didn't take the job

The first major feature written on Homosexuality in Australia - COUPLES. It was the interviews Hawley did and feature Hawley wrote on Camp Inc - with the founders John Ware and Christabel Poll, 1970 (File) - Box 12

Notes from Janet Hawley: Literally thousands of people phoned or wrote to me afterwards, wanting to contact John Ware and Poll. Not a year still goes by, without some academic or historian or researcher wanting more background information about this feature - AND a copy of the feature. Most copies seem to have been lost. I only just found my copy. The Australian didn't file stories properly then, there was no proper library system. The feature doesn't seem to be available on line anywhere either.

Interviews with Dame Margot Fonteyn, Bob Rogers, Tom Keneally, Patrick mcNee, actor, the Avengers star; Hawley also covered the Pope's tour (File) - Box 12

Includes covering the opening of a resort in Maroochydore, billed as a Percepolis party, with the Duke and Duchess of Bedford etc etc flown in, fortunes spent.. Interviews with TJ Smith, another Camp Inc follow up story; Sir Edmund Hillary, Dr Spock,, Pucci, 1971 (File) - Box 13

Letters re Robert Menzies dinner; from the Dean of Sydney, Canon Morton, from Brian White, 2GB current affairs broadcaster. Press pass for covering Race Week at Thredbo, 1971, 1971 (File) - Box 13

A special series of interviews and features during a month Hawley spent in the P{hilippies, interviewing President Ferdinand Marcos, and Imelda Marcos in malacanang Palace, Manila. Interviews with Ninoy Aquino, Opposition leader (later assassinated) (File) - Box 13

Notes from Janet Hawley: This was my first major overseas assignment, and a really hard one, for a young newlywed Australian woman trying to work in the Philippines. - then a wild town, with everyone carrying guns, and political corruption galore.

Interviews with many Philippino multi millionaires (File) - Box 13

Features on Manila slums and slum dwellers in Tondo City. Feature on The Huks, the Philippines Pirates. (File) - Box 13

Many stories with performers, writers, poets. Neville Mariner and St Martins in the Fields, John Dankwort and Cleo Lane, 1972 (File) - Box 13

Notes from Janet Hawley: Don Dunstan gave parties for writers week, I interviewed Allen Ginsberg; Russian poets Andrei Voznessensky.

Original copies of TELEX printouts of stories that Hawley filed from, 1972 (File) - Box 13

Stories with Vanessa Redgrave, Shane Gould, Dawn Fraser, Margaret Whitlam, Alvin Tofler and Future Shock; Mary Gaudron; Richard Attenborough, 1972 (File) - Box 13

Feature on the modelling business, interviews with models and agents, June Daly Watkins, Vivienne Mc Dermott, and original version of Hawley's story, 1972 (File) - Box 13

Notes from Janet Hawley: Original version of the story written on yellow copy paper, one paragraph to one sheet of copy paper - the way we wrote stories in the office of The Australian in Sydney, on our typewriters - in my case, my own portable Olivetti.

Another story on yellow copy paper , written with Hawley's pseudonymn, Caroline Leete, 1972 (File) - Box 13

Notes from Janet Hawley: We sometimes used a second name, if we had too many stories in the paper on the one day.

Letters from readers and people Hawley had written about (File) - Box 13

including Margaret Whitlam, Dorothy Hewett, Peter Weir; Abigail of Number 96 TV fame; Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones; Jim Sharman; Lord Montagu;, 1973 (File) - Box 13

Perspective column, 1973 - 1974 (File) - Box 13

Notes from Janet Hawley: PERSPECTIVE. I wrote a daily column in The Australian, called PERSPECTIVE. Five days a week. I took this column over from Robert Drewe, when he left The Australian to write books. Previously, Id written the column when Robert was away on holidays. It was a huge workload, to do a daily column with four to six newsy items - with behind the scenes info, or just giving a different perspective on things happening in the news or in society in general, local or international.

Folder of letters, relating to Hawley's column, PERSPECTIVE items, 1973, from readers, some from editor of The Australian, Jim Hall, 1973 (File) - Box 13

Folder of features/stories, including covering the re-building of Darwin after Cyclone Tracey; the building and opening of the new Sydney Hilton, an analysis of a hotel; the new Kung Fu craze, and a male Pill, 1974 (File) - Box 14

Ads for Press Freedom, signed by journalists - including Hawley (File) - Box 14

Note from The Australian's editor, Jim Hall, to staff, re 69 libel actions against the papers, and need for more care, plus instructions re libel laws (File) - Box 14

Original copy of a feature I wrote on industrial espionage - snooping - written one paragraph per yellow sheet of copy paper (File) - Box 14

Notes from Janet Hawley)Written on my portable Olivetti typewriter. 56 pages of copy paper. The way we wrote stories in the Sydney office at the time.

Letter from Jane Perlez, an Australian journalist friend in New York, suggesting another story on Lady Mary Fairfax - who Hawley had written about before (File) - Box 14

Bulletin from the Media Womens Action Group (File) - Box 14

(Notes from Janet Hawley: I was a founding member. We secured maternity leave for women journalists, around 1975-6 .

Letter from Australian writer, George Farwell, in Mexico and Panama, who I was meant to visit (File) - Box 14

Memo, from news editor George Williams, re an editor's complaint Hawley had used the word "nipples" in a story about a gelato bar serving girls in wet swimmers (File) - Box 14

Letters from Perspective readers, re column items (File) - Box 14

Includes sitting in on making episodes of Blue Hills at ABC Radio; making of Alvin Purple film; porn movie business; feature on Armenian living in Australia, 1975 (File) - Box 14

Interviews with Gogh Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race millionaires (File) - Box 14

Writers Week, Adelaide festival interviews - with Ted Hughes, Wole Soyenka, more. Interviews with Nancy Kissinger, Larry Pickering and Bob Hawke, Widden Stud in Hunter Valley (File) - Box 14

Notebook, with notes from interviews with Tom Lewis, NSW MP, a very liberal minded man. Minister for Lands (File) - Box 14

Letters - including from John Singleton, after Hawley travelled with him when he was launching The Workers Party. Telling me, "you're a bloody good writer." (File) - Box 14

Letter From John Stubbs, Press Secretary for Minister for Labour, after a feature Hawley wrote on rag trade employees falsely accused of bludging (File) - Box 14

Includes a week with actor Peter O'Toole, a week with Kings Cross prostitutes, an assignment in Las Vegan and San Francisco; features on South Vietnamese refugees; a profile of newlyweds Carla Zampatti and John Spender; Ita Buttrose rising star; young Tom Keneally, Frank Moorehouse young Graeme Murphy, Fred Nile interviews; interviews with ABBA rock band, Frank Zappa, Sydney Hobart Yacht race millionaires; umpteen more (File) - Box 14

Column Hawley wrote daily On The Election Campaign Trail, covering Whitlam and Fraser, also Bill Hayden. Playing golf with Margaret Whitlam (File) - Box 14

Letters from people Hawley interviewed and readers, including a letter from Adele Koh, after she'd married SA Premier Don Dunstan, (File) - Box 14

Letter from Ross Campbell, praising a story Hawley wrote about flying First Class (File) - Box 14

13 Royal Tours Hawley covered as a working journalist. First working on The Australian, and later when working on The Age and Sydney Morning Herald (File) - Box 15

Stories and memorabilia and official notebooks, letters, relating to several of these Royal Tours, and being part of the official Royal Tour Media entourage (File) - Box 15

1970 Royal tour stories of Australian east coast, a five-weeks tour with a media entourage of 150, of local and international media reps. Went with the Royals from Tasmania to Cooktown - The Queen, Prince Philip, Charles and Anne, 1970 (File) - Box 15

1970 tour letters. From Tony Eggleton, PMs Dept, royal tour media co-ordinator, 1970 (File) - Box 15

Royal Tour stories,, 1972, tour of Western Australia with Lord Tony Snowden and Princess Margaret, 1972 (File) - Box 15

Notes from Janet Hawley: This was a very informal tour, and Snowden spent a lot of time hanging out with the small media group - only six of us, flew in a small plane behind them to cover the outback your. One day I went motor bike riding with Snowdon and his pilot - and rode pillion on their bikes - and wrote a story on Ton Up Tony.

1972 RT letters folder - including letter from Princess Margaret's lady in waiting, readers, and Piers Akerman, then The Australian's Perth bureau chief, 1972 (File) - Box 15

1973 folder - Royal Tour for opening of Sydney Opera House, 1973 (File) - Box 15

1974 Royal tour, letters folder, 1974 (File) - Box 15

Notes from Janet Hawley: On that tour we also went to New Guinea.

Folder of stories from various royal tours, including Hawley's media pass from the 1988 Royal Tour, 1988 (File) - Box 15

1977 Royal Tour - folder of stories, including an original story on yellow copy paper, one par to a page, 1977 (File) - Box 15

1977 Royal Tour. Letters folder. Including a card signed "Sue" on HM Yacht Britannia card. This is Lady Susan Hussey, Lady in Waiting to The Queen, Royal Tour luggage labels for media luggage, 1977 (File) - Box 15

Notes from Janet Hawley: Sue was very friendly to me through the tour and loved my stories. Her card came with a small brass canon for my son Sam, a souvenir from Britannia.

The small brass cannon from Britannia - in two sections - the gun carriage, and the barrel. - from Lady Susan Hussey (File) - Box 15

Royal Tour black zippered folder issued to media, 1977 tour, 1977 (File) - Box 15

Various documents: Two booklets with the official itinerary and briefing notes for media; Invitation to reception on Britannia, and slip on reporting rules; Press handout of Queen's daily dress description; Press handout of Queens final speech; Program from Brisbane state reception; Menu from Sydney Jubilee diner; Note cards from Britannia (File) - Box 15

Special Royal Tour memorabilia - Ron Alison; Letter from Ron Alison - on Buckingham palace note paper - on May 7, 1973 - when he started work at Press Secretary to The Queen. Photograph of Ron Alison outside Buckingham Palace on day one. Christmas card from Alison, mentioning his sadness at Hawley's parents death., 1973 (File) - Box 15

Notes from Janet Hawley: Id met Ron Alison on the 1970 Royal Tour and become good friends with him and the overseas press corps covering the tour for five weeks, Ron was working for the BBC, then joined the Queens staff for many years, as we remained in touch as I covered subsequent royal tours.

Small Sony Cassette recorder; recorded on 90 minute auto reverse tapes (File) - Box 15

Portable Olivetti typewriter, c. 1978 (File) - Box 16