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MS Acc07.103; MS Acc13.075

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Collection Summary

Creator
Janet Hawley
Title
Papers of Janet Hawley
Date Range
1946-2006
Collection Number
MS Acc07.103; MS Acc13.075
Extent
5.1 metres (34 ms boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

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Item Descriptions

Class MS Acc07_103. Original Consignment

Materials relating to Hawley's feature articles on numerous eminent Australians and international events, including research notes, photographs, transcripts, memoranda, drafts, items given to Hawley by the interviewees (sketches, drawings, paintings, letters, memorabilia), correspondence with interviewees, notebooks. People represented include notable Australian artists, authors, actors, playwrights, politicians, film makers, indigenous Australians, composers, architects.

Comprises 18 boxes.

ART DEALERS - Unpublished feature on numerous major Australian art dealers (File) - Box 1

KYM BONYTHON - Legendary Adelaide and Sydney art dealer (File) - Box 1

NANCY BORLASE - Former esteemed art critic on Sydney Morning Herald, and artist of note (File) - Box 1

MICHAEL BRAND - New Australian director of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Interviews with him at the Getty (File) - Box 1

ARTHUR BOYD - I. - interview notes, transcripts of recordings, story drafts, and lists of proposed questions made while researching. I interviewed Boyd numerous times from the 1980's on, till his death. I wrote the first major feature on Bundanon, published 1989, which got Boyd's dream for Bundanon finally rolling into action, and I became heavily involved with helping that dream come into being. I stayed with Arthur and Yvonne Boyd at Bundanon many times, also visited them at their home in Italy - driving across with Jeffrey Smart, from where I was staying with him at his home in Arezzo. I wrote the last interview with Boyd before he died, and supplied all my notes to Darlene Bungey for her Boyd biography (File) - Box 1

ARTHUR BOYD - II - letters to and from Arthur and Yvonne Boyd. letters in response to my Bundanon Boyd cover story feature - including an interesting one from Richard Tognetti's father. A few of umpteen letters I wrote to help Bundanon along. Christmas Card from Arthur and Yvonne (File) - Box 1

JOHN BRACK - Interviews with him in his home and studio in Melbourne, 1991. background interviews with his wife Helen and art world colleagues. letters. story notes, question lists made while researching, rough drafts of feature, 1991 (File) - Box 1

OLIVE COTTON - Interviews with her at her home in Cowra, 1998. Also interviews with her husband Ross, daughter Sally McInerney, ex son in law, poet Geoffrey Lehman, story drafts, 1998 (File) - Box 1

WILLIAM DELAFIELD COOK - Interviews with him when he was staying at Boyd's property, Bundanon, as artist in residence. Also interview with him at his Paddington home, and by phone to England. Story drafts, notes (File) - Box 1

RUSSELL DRYSDALE - Interviews with his widow, Lady Maisie Drysdale, for a feature on the Drysdale Retrospective, 1998. Interviews with Drysdale's daughter Lyn Clarke, 1997, 1998 (File) - Box 1

MAX DUPAIN - interviews with Max Dupain, 1985, at his studio in Artarmon, later interviews with his widow Diana Dupain at her Northbridge apartment, , son Rex Dupain at his Chippendale studio, former assistant Jill White at her studio-home, for a Good Weekend feature on the family feud over Max Dupain's will, and a joint exhibition of Max and Rex Dupain's work, 1985 (File) - Box 1

JOHN FIRTH-SMITH - Interviews 1999 for a GW feature, story drafts, and transcripts, 1999 (File) - Box 2

DONALD FRIEND - Interviews with Donald Friend in his home/studio in Woollahra, 1988, and also with Attilio Guarracino in his home in Melbourne. The story became the basis for a film script, but the film was never made. More interviews with artists who knew Friend well, for story I wrote in 1989 when Friend died. Notes for another major feature on Friend, at the time of the retrospective of his work at the Art Gallery of NSW. Gallery invitations to Friend exhibitions, 1988 (File) - Box 2

ROSALIE GASCOIGNE - Interviews with her in her Canberra home and studio (File) - Box 2

BILL HENSON - Interviews in 2000 at his home-studio in Melbourne for a GW feature. In 2000, Bill wanted some small changes in the feature - and re-wrote the entire feature by hand and faxed it to me, with his changes included. It was the way he liked to do things. I very rarely show features to subjects, but made an exception with Bill as I knew he would respect the writing process. Interviews again in his home-studio in Melbourne, for another feature to co-incide with his retrospective at The Art Gallery of NSW in 2005. Story drafts, notes, copies of Henson photographs, 2000 (File) - Box 2

NORA HEYSEN - Interview with Nora at her home -studio at Hunters Hill in 1998. story draft. Interviews with other artists who knew her and her father, Hans Heysen, 1998 (File) - Box 2

RAY HUGHES - Legendary Sydney art dealer, interviews with Ray, and other artists and writers who've known him or been in his stable over the years, Davida Allen, John Olsen, Bill Robinson, Brian Johns, Dick Hall, Hilary McPhee (File) - Box 2

COLIN LANCELEY - Interviews with Colin Lanceley in 1991 at his home-studio in Sydney also his south coast home-studio, fellow artists and dealers. story drafts, transcripts, gallery invitations, 1991 (File) - Box 2

MICHAEL LEUNIG - Interviews in 1992 and 1993 at his home in Melbourne, for a GW feature. letters and faxes from Leunig, procrastinating over the interview date. notes, questions, story drafts, 1992-3 (File) - Box 2

MARGO LEWERS - Interviews with her daughters, Tanya Crothers and Darani Larsen, and other artists, writers, architects, who knew her and visited her artists salon home on the Nepean river - now the Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery, 2002 (File) - Box 2

AKIO MAKIGAWA - Interviews with sculptor Makigawa, 1993, in his Melbourne studio. Interviews with his widow, 2001 after he died from cancer, caused by marble dust, 1993, 2001 (File) - Box 2

SIDNEY NOLAN - Interviews with Nolan; from the 80's till his death in 1992. I interviewed Nolan numerous times over the years, from the 80's till his death in 1992. wrote numerous stories - the bitter feud between Patrick White and Nolan. the Rimbaud film which used Nolan's paintings. Interviewed him on the set of the Burke and Wills film, at Coopers Creek, where Nolan was film set artist in residence. Interviewed him at Bundanon, where he stayed with his close friend Arthur Boyd. had meals with him and the Boyds often. Wrote about Nolans paintings for the Vic National Arts Centre. Wrote more stories on him when he died, 1980 - 1992 (File) - Box 3

MARGARET OLLEY - Two folders: I - Research material, gallery invitations, proof pages and notes. II - Numerous interviews with Olley from 1990 onwards, 1990 - (File) - Box 3

JOHN OLSEN - 1 of 3 folders: I - Numerous interviews with Olsen, from 1990 onwards, 1990 - (File) - Box 3

CLIFTON PUGH - Interview with Pugh at his mud brick home and studio, Dunmoochin, Vic, in the 80's (File) - Box 4

MARGARET PRESTON - Notes from arts experts and people who knew her, for story tied to Preston retrospective at Art Gallery of NSW (File) - Box 4

MAN RAY - Interviews with Judy Annear, curator of photography at Art Gallery of NSW, and others, for story on exhibition at Art Gallery of NSW (File) - Box 4

ALISON REHFISH - Interview with her daughter and other artists who knew her, to go with a feature to coincide with an exhibition at the SH Ervine Gallery (File) - Box 4

LLOYD REES - Two folders: I - Numerous interviews with Rees over many years. Interviewed him in his home-studio at Northwood, then in Tasmania at his son's home. Wrote about him at the Painters and Sculptors award dinner in 1986, where Whiteley was also a guest. also wrote the final interview, in 1988, which won a Walkley award. II - Cards from Alan and Jan Rees, Lloyd's son and daughter in law (File) - Box 4

TOM ROBERTS - Feature notes with experts who studied Roberts, for a feature linked to the publication of Humphrey McQueen's book on Roberts (File) - Box 4

WILLIAM ROBINSON - Interviews with him at his home/studio in Canungra, Queensland, in 1994, for a feature (File) - Box 4

MARTIN SHARP - Many interviews with Martin Sharp, at his home-studio, Wirian in Belleview Hill, and other artists who know him well (File) - Box 4

GARRY SHEAD - Interviews with Garry at his home-studio at Bundeena, question lists, notes, three versions of the final feature (File) - Box 5

JEFFREY SMART - 3 of 4 folders. (Folder 2 contains artwork.) I - transcripts of many interviews and conversations with Smart since 1989. III - Correspondence from Jeffrey Smart since 1989. IV - Jeffrey Smart memorabilia, 1989 - (File) - Box 5

JOSHUA SMITH - The artist Joshua Smith was the subject of William Dobell's famous portrait, which caused a huge controversy and law case, when it won the Archibald prize (File) - Box 5

TIM STORRIER - 2 of 3 folders. I - Interviews with Tim Storrier in his Sydney home-studio , from 1989 onwards. II - Lake Eyre painting expedition - 1989 inspired by John Olsen, 1989 - (File) - Box 5

ALBERT TUCKER - Interviews with Tucker in his home-studio at St Kilda, in 1994, 1994 (File) - Box 6

ANDY WARHOL - Interviews with Australian people who knew him, and were painted by him - Loti Smorgon, Henry Gillespie (File) - Box 6

JOHN WOLSELEY - Interviews and notes from a 4-day camping expedition to Gosse Bluff, with Wolseley, 1991, 1991 (File) - Box 6

FRED WILLIAMS - Interview with his widow, Lyn Williams, in her Melbourne home (File) - Box 6

BRETT WHITELEY - 2 of 3 folders: (Folder 3 contains artwork.) I - Interviews with Brett Whiteley from 1989 onwards. II - Illustrated notes from Whiteley to his gallery, instructing how to hang his shows, and display his sculptures, 1989 - (File) - Box 6

NEW YORK ART - Notes from an assignment in 2006, to write on the art scene in the Chelsea galleries in new York, 2006 (File) - Box 6

ORIENTALISM - Assignment to travel to Egypt and Morocco, 1997, to re-travel in the paths of the Australian artists, e.g. Streeton, Roberts, 1997 (File) - Box 6

RUSSIAN AVANT GARDE ART - Research material, notes, interviews, in Australia and Russia, during a trip to Russia - Moscow and St Petersburg, 1996 (File) - Box 7

NEIL AMRFIELD Theatre and film director. Interviews on the set of the film Candy (File) - Box 8

GILLIAN ARMSTRONG Australian film director. Interviews on the set of Mrs Soffell (File) - Box 8

MURRAY BAIL Australian Writer, interviews in his Balmain home (File) - Box 8

BANDA Visit to the Indonesian island of Banda, 1988. Notes, faxes etc, 1988 (File) - Box 8

FAITH BANDLER Black Activist. Reflective interview at age 82 (File) - Box 8

ERIC BANA Australian film star. Interviews in his home in Melbourne, 2007, 2007 (File) - Box 9

BALI BRIDES Interviews with Australian women, who married Balinese men in the 1970's (File) - Box 9

BALI - FLORES - LOMBOK 2 week trip overland by minibus, 1997, 1997 (File) - Box 9

BEV BUCKINGHAM Champion woman jockey. Interviews, story drafts, question lists (File) - Box 9

BURMA 2 week trip to Burma for GW feature, 1994, 1994 (File) - Box 9

EDMUND CAMPION Catholic priest, historian and writer. Interviews at Manly (File) - Box 9

MANNING CLARK Historian, Interviews with him opening an antiquarian book fair in Sydney (File) - Box 9

PAUL COX Australian film maker. Interviews in his Melbourne home and studios (File) - Box 9

PHILIP COX Architect. Interviews from 1990 onwards and freehand sketches, 1990 - (File) - Box 9

SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM Writer and former publisher. Interviews in her Melbourne home, 2004 (File) - Box 9

BLANCHE D'ALPUGET Interview with her in her Canberra home for a GW feature (File) - Box 9

BENGT DANIELSSON Interviews and collected materials from Bengt and his wife Therese in their home in Tahiti, GW feature, 1990 (File) - Box 9

JUDY DAVIS Interview with her in Sydney, for the release of the film Passage to India (File) - Box 9

ESTHER DEANS Inventor of the No Dig Garden, interviews in her Waitara home in 2001, 2001 (File) - Box 9

PAT DODSON Aboriginal activist, interviews, letters and contacts with Pat since 1981, 1981 - (File) - Box 9

ROSEMARY DOBSON Interviews in her Canberra home in 2000, for a GW feature, 2000 (File) - Box 10

ROBERT DREWE Writer. Interviews in his Byron Bay home in 2005, 2005 (File) - Box 10

NICK ENRIGHT Writer, playwright. Interviews in his Newtown home in 1993, 1993 (File) - Box 10

EGYPT Trip to Egypt, West Bank and Lebanon, including interview with Mrs Sadat, wife of President Sadat (File) - Box 10

DELIA FALCONER Writer. Interviews at Arthur Boyd's property, Bundanon (File) - Box 10

MARGARET FINK Film Producer. Interviews in her Darlinghurst home (File) - Box 10

KATE FITZPATRICK Actress, author. Interviews in her Melbourne home, 2004, 2004 (File) - Box 10

ABORIGINAL STORIES Notes, Notebooks, from interviews and travels in the Northern Territory (File) - Box 11

CHINA Bicycle trip, for The Age, 1986 (File) - Box 11

JEFF FENECH Interviews with him at his home in Erskinville, 1980's, 1980's (File) - Box 12

RAIMOND GAITA Moral philosopher, author. Interviews in his Melbourne home in 2002. Also emails and faxes from Gaita, 2002, 2007 (File) - Box 12

PHILIP GLASS American musician. Interview in Sydney, 1980's, 1980s (File) - Box 12

MICHAEL GOW Australian playwright. Interview with him in Adelaide, 1988, 1988 (File) - Box 12

RACHEL GRIFFITHS Australian actress. Interview at her Palm Beach home in 2000 for a GW Feature, 2000 (File) - Box 12

KATE GRENVILLE Australian writer. Interview at Canberra Wordfest, 1987, 1987 (File) - Box 12

MARION HALLIGAN Australian writer. Interview in her Canberra home, 2001, 2001 (File) - Box 12

BILL HAYDEN ALP Leader and Governor-General. Interviews from 1980 and 1988, 1980, 1988 (File) - Box 12

DOROTHY HEWETT Writer. Interview in her Blue Mountains home in 1993 for GW feature, 1993 (File) - Box 12

GABI HOLLOWS Widow of Fred Hollows. Interviews in her Randwick home, 1993, 1993 (File) - Box 12

INDONESIA Five-weeks assignment throughout Indonesia writing for The Age, 1985, 1985 (File) - Box 12

INDONESIA 1982-83 Backpacking travels through Java, Sumatra, Sarawak etc. Notes of articles written for The Age, 1982-83 (File) - Box 13

ISRAEL, WEST BANK, S. LEBANON. Five-weeks assignment in this war zone region writing for The Age (File) - Box 13

ELISABETH JOLLEY Interview with her on winning the Miles Franklin Award, 1986 (File) - Box 13

TOM KENEALLY Author. Interviews in his Newport Beach, NSW home, 1988-89 (File) - Box 13

CHRISTOPHER KOCH Writer. Interview with him on winning the Miles Franklin Award. 1986, 1986 (File) - Box 13

JOHN KONRADS Olympic swimming champion. Interviews with him in his early 60's. Contains notes and story drafts (File) - Box 13

RAY LAWRENCE Film Director. Interviews on the set of the film Jindabyne. Also contains copy of the film script (File) - Box 14

HEATH LEDGER Australian actor. Interviews in his Brooklyn, NY home. For a GW cover story (File) - Box 14

MICHAEL LEUNIG Cartoonist. Interviews in his Melbourne home and in The Age offices, 1992 - 93 for a GW cover story, 1992-93 (File) - Box 14

COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH Australian author. Interviews in her Sydney apartment and via telephone from Norfolk Island. Also interviews with others about Colleen, 2005-06 (File) - Box 14

HILARY MCPHEE Publisher and Australia Council Chief. Interviews with her in 1995 for a GW cover story, 1995 (File) - Box 14

ARCH MCKIRDIE ABC Broadcaster, interviews in his Blue Mountains home and comments from other journalists (File) - Box 14

PRESIDENT MARCOS Interview with Philippines, former president, in exile in Hawaii, 1988 (File) - Box 14

RICHARD MEALE Australian composer. Interview at the time he wrote music for the VOSS opera, 1986 (File) - Box 14

NEPAL TREK Three-weeks trek in Nepal to write a feature for The Age, 1985 (File) - Box 14

NEW GUINEA - RABAUL Cover story on the re-building of Rabaul after the volcanic eruption that devastated the town, 1995 (File) - Box 15

PITCAIRN ISLAND Feature series on the bicentenary. Contains notebooks and copy of the main feature, 1989 (File) - Box 15

DAVID MALOUF. Author, Interviews with Malouf in Sydney at the time of the VOSS opera - he wrote the libretto. Faxes to David Malouf in Italy trying to persuade him to do a profile cover-story interview for GW, and faxes to and from artist Jeffrey Smart - asking his help. Replies from Malouf. Also longer interviews with Malouf in Sydney at his home in Chippendale, and lunch at Sydney Fish Markets, for a GW cover story in 1993, at time of REMEMBERING BABYLON'S publication. Malouf suggested it to be re-printed in a French publication on Australian writers, as his preferred biographical piece (File) - Box 16

ROGER MCDONALD Author. Interviews with him at his home in Braidwood in 2001, for a feature on his book on TREES. Notes, questions, story drafts, 2001 (File) - Box 16

JOHN MCDONALD. art critic interviews with him about his book on artists studios, also about his life and work, for a cover story in GW 2007. interview notes with him in his home, and whilst going around galleries with him. transcripts, story drafts, 2007 (File) - Box 16

GILLIAN MEARS Author. Interview with her in 2002 at her then home, Apple box farm, in far northern NSW, near Grafton, to coincide with publication of her book, A MAP OF THE GARDEN. Many faxes and emails setting up the interview. Unusual amount of response to feature - Gillian suffered from a form of paralysis, and this was mentioned in the GW feature. many people, including medical specialists, got in touch with me, suggestion diagnoses and solutions. Many letters, cards, photographs from Gillian following publication of the feature, wanting to stay in touch, and letting me know how her life was going. also photographs she took of me the day I interviewed her. Also - lecture notes for a lecture I gave to feature Writing Students at the UTS in Sydney - using my experience interviewing Gillian as an example of the subtleties and complexities of interviewing a subject, 2002 (File) - Box 16

FRANK MOORHOUSE Writer. Interviews with him in Paris, in 1991, where he was living to research and write his League of Nations book. Notes, research questions, story draft, 1991 (File) - Box 16

DI MORRISSEY Writer of popular fiction. Interviews with her in her home in Ewingsdale, 2006, for a GW feature. emails setting the interview up. research question lists. interviews with many writers about her, including Tim Winton, Robert Dessaix, Bryce Courtney, 2006 (File) - Box 16

GRAEME MURPHY AND JANET VERNON Ballet dancers and legendary heads of the Sydney Dance Company interviews with them at Sydney Dance Co studios, in 2000. for a profile on both. GW cover story, research and questions lists to consider, story drafts, ballet programs from SDC, 2000 (File) - Box 16

GEORGE NEGUS Journalist. Interviews with George and his partner Kirsty Cockburn in Sydney, around 2000. for a Two of Us feature in GW. notes and story draft, 2000 (File) - Box 16

JOHN NEWCOMBE AND TONY ROCHE. Tennis champions. Interviews with both in Sydney in 2000, for a Two Of Us feature in GW, notes and story draft, 2000 (File) - Box 16

NEW PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA Interview with the architect, Italian-born ROMALDO GIURGOLA, who took me over new Parliament House as I interviewed him, letters, notebooks, papers from Giurgola (File) - Box 16

JOHN MCDONALD (File) - Box 16

ANDREW OLLE - legendary ABC journalist. a remarkable interview with Olle, 1992. After he died suddenly, my GW feature was often re-printed and re-used, and it was also printed in a book on Olle, and I was asked to write an introduction - enclosed. notes, letters, story drafts, final story (File) - Box 16

RENDRA - famous Indonesian poet. I first interviewed Rendra, secretly, in Jakarta in 1985, after he'd just been released from a long spell in jail, for writing and reciting poems anti-the then government. I later interviewed Rendra in Sydney in 1988. notes, interview transcripts, interviews with others about Rendra, eg Indonesian specialist Max Lane. background literature (File) - Box 16

ELISABETH RIDDEL - poet, journalist. I worked with Elizabeth for many years on The Australian and knew her well. In 1994 I formally interviewed her for a profile in GW. interview notes, story draft. letter from Elizabeth. (I have more, but still have to locate them) (File) - Box 16

JIM SHARMAN - theatre director.Interview with Sharman at a Kings Cross cafe in 1995, about THE UTZON OPERA HOUSE OPERA, which he was directing at the time. (He later pulled out through illness). Interview transcript about the opera, and Sharman's life in theatre in general (File) - Box 16

ANN SHERRY - Australian high performing businesswoman. Head of Westpac, NZ. Interview with Sherry and her husband Michael, for a feature I was writing on Trailing Spouses - High performing women with husbands who moved jobs, to follow their wives' rising career path (File) - Box 17

SUKARNO DEWI - Japanese-born wife of President Sukarno. I interviewed Dewi in 1985, as part of a feature series I was writing on assignment in Indonesia, for five weeks - for The Age. The former First Lady was still living like a celebrity, in a mansion in Jakarta. She speaks openly about her life with Sukarno. interview transcripts, and interviews with the Antara rep, Ita Sjamsuddin, for her thoughts on Dewi (File) - Box 17

HARRY SEIDLER - architect. interviews with him at his office at Kirribilli, and his home at Killara, in 1985 for a major profile. interviews with his wife Penelope, and other leading architects and critics including Davina Jackson. notebooks, background material, story drafts (File) - Box 17

CHRISTINA STEAD - writer. interviews with her, in 1987, and with the two authors then both separately writing her biography.. Also interviews with her step mother, Thistle Harris Stead, for a feature in 1982 - Thistle interviews done at the old family house in Watsons Bay (File) - Box 17

SHANE STONE - former chief minister of the Northern Territory, then treasurer of the federal Liberal Party. long personal interviews with him, in Darwin in 1995, in his office and in his Darwin home, for a profile in GW, on his background and current role, and future plans. interviews with many people around him in key roles, also his wife Josephine Stone, a civil rights lawyer. notebooks, transcripts, story drafts (File) - Box 17

KATHLEEN STREHLOW - 1987 notes. widow of Ted Strehlow, famous early confidante of Aborigines, and trusted collector of Aboriginal artefacts. I'd interviewed Bruce Chatwin, and helped him with introductions and research for his book SONGLINES> Chatwin suggested that I interview Kathy Strehlow in Adelaide, on the troubled history and current situation of the Strehlow collection. After a lot of persuasion from Chatwin, she agreed, and I saw her over several days in her cluttered Adelaide home (File) - Box 17

QUEENIE SUNDERLAND - the last of the Anzac English war brides, when i interviewed her in her Sydney home, aged 103 in 1999. notes about her life, story draft (File) - Box 17

IAN THORPE - Olympic swimming champion. Exclusive interviews after he announced his retirement in 2006, and continuing interviews in 2007 for a GW cover story. Interviews at his home, coffee shop, by the river near his home, driving in his car, at the photoshoot in the city studio, and on the phone. emails with his manager, David Flaskas, setting up the exclusive interviews, which took a long time. also interviews with Thorpe's coach, Tracey Menzies, at the pool where Thorpe trained. interviews with Shane Gould and Milt Nelms, Thorpe's performance enhancement coaches. interview notes, research questions, story drafts. emails from David Flaskas and others after the story was published (File) - Box 17

JOERN UTZON - Interviews for a feature, 10 years on after the completion of the Sydney Opera House. 1983. No interviews with Joern, but interviews about him and his life and thoughts, with his daughter Lin Utzon, a sculptor and ceramics artist, and also Alex Popov, architect, who was married to Lin Utzon at the time, and knows Joern Utzon well. notebooks, story drafts, background material, also interviews with Lin Utzon for a feature about her own work, notebooks and some drawings she did in my notebook (File) - Box 17

TIM WINTON - several interviews with him. 2 folders. Folder 1. interview with Tim, aged 25, in 1986 at the Adelaide Festival, Writers Week 1987 interview, at Canberra WordFest. Christmas Card and poem, Tim W. 1991. I went to interview Tim at his home in Lancelin, WA, to do the big cover story profile, when CLOUDSTRRET was published. Spent a few days with him, even went fishing with him. Research question, interview notes. interviews with Helen Garner, Robert Drewe, on Winton. interview transcripts. folder 2. When Tim Winton's book THE TURNING was published, he told his publisher that he'd do one print interview only , and he wanted that to be with Janet Hawley. Tim also suggested that we should do the interview in Albany, where much of the book was set, and where he grew up. So I flew to meet him in Albany, and we stayed in a local hotel, and drove around Albany together with the GW photographer also along. interview notes, transcripts, background research and questions. Letter from Tim with a page of his handwriting - we planned to use it in the layout in GW.various story drafts of my feature on TW (File) - Box 18

DAVID WILLIAMSON - interviews with him at his Birchgrove home, in 1992. Card from Kristin Williamson, sent with flowers - "Many thanks for your integrity and generosity" after I'd interviewed her and written a feature about her novel, TANGLEWOOD. interview notes with David Williamson and his son Rory Williamson, for a Two of Us column in GW - Rory was starring his David play. OPERATOR, at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney at the time (File) - Box 18

TONY WHITE - Sydney society artistic jeweller, interview with him. and his designer partner, Alexander Michael, for a Two Of Us column in GW, notes, transcripts (File) - Box 18

PATRICK WHITE Nobel prize winning writer. interviews with White in 1986 at his home in Centennial Park, for a feature on the Voss opera. Notebooks, notes. notes from his agent Barbara Mobbs. Also interviewed David Malouf and Richard Meale, who were part of the Voss opera team. story draft. Letter to Patrick White in 1989, after I'd learned that he'd asked for me to interview him about his plays. Notes from various phone and personal conversations with David Marr, while he was writing Patrick White's biography - arranging to do an interview with Marr about the book. 1990 interview with David Marr about the biography, for a GW cover story - I arranged with Brett Whiteley to use his portrait of Patrick White as the GW cover - and the biography publishers liked this so much, they changed their cover design and used it too. 1994, interview with David Marr, for a GW cover story on Patrick White's Letters, which Marr edited, interview notes (File) - Box 18

MARY VALENTINE - general manager of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the time, in 1996. Interviews with her about her role and the orchestra, for a GW cover story, also interviews with her close friends, including David Marr, Roger Covell,.. Card from Mary Valentine (File) - Box 18

SIMONE YOUNG - conductor interviews with her in 1999 for a cover sotry in GW. interviews in Sydney at Australian opera headquarters, at Opera House, in cafes, on phone. transcripts, story (File) - Box 18

Class MS Acc13_075. Consignment Added 2013

Interview notes relating to a wide range of topics and individuals, including Dr Trevor Anderson, Geraldine Brooks, Charles Blackman, Francis Bacon, Judy Davis, Chris Lilley, Bill Henson, John Olsen, Ben Quilty and others; manuscripts, proofs, and interview notes for Hawley's books Artists in conversation and Encounters with Australian artists; correspondence; articles and stories written for Australian newspapers, including The Age, The Sydney morning herald and The Australian; and papers relating to 13 Royal Tours between 1970-1977.

Comprises 16 boxes.

Series. Aboriginal Student

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 !!!).

Series. ANDERSON, DR TREVOR

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.

Series. ANZACS

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

Series. ARROWSMITH YOUNG, BARBARA

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."

Series. ALLENDE, ISABEL

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

Series. BROOKS, GERALDINE

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

Series. BLACKMAN, CHARLES

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

Series. BACON, FRANCIS

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

Series. CAPON, EDMUND

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

Series. BROWSE BASIN GAS FIELDS, NW WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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.

Series. KIMBERLEY TRAVEL - DAMPIER PENINSULA

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.

Series. CHARLES, PRINCE HRH

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.

Series. CHILD PRODIGIES

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

Series. CHRISTIE, AGATHA

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.

Series. CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART

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

Series. CULLEN, ADAM

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

Series. DAVIES, LUKE

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.

Series. DAVIS, JUDY

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

Series. DREWE, ROBERT

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

Series. EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGISTS

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.

Series. FIRTH SMITH, JOHN

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.

Series. GEMMELL, NIKKI

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

Series. GILOT, FRANCOISE

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

Series. HENSON, BILL

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

Series. HOOD, CHERRY

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

Series. KING, WAL

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

Series. LILLEY, CHRIS

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

Series. LUHRMAN, BAZ

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.

Series. MC MANUS, ROVE

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

Series. MORRISSEY, DR GABRIELLE

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.

Series. MULLER, PETER AND CAROLE

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.

Series. MURRAY, JAN

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

Series. OLSEN, JOHN

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.

Series. QUILTY, BEN

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

Series. RHODES, TEDDY TAHU

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

Series. RICHARDSON, JOHN

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.

Series. ROXBURGH, RICHARD

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

Series. SAFRAN, JOHN

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

Series. STOCKBROKERS

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

Series. STORRIER, TIM

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.

Series. THOMPSON, ERIK

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

Series. SHEAD, GARRY

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

Series. GARRY SHEAD FRESCO DIARIES

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.

Series. Misc stories

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

Series. JANET HAWLEY'S BOOK, ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION, published 2012.

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

Series. JANET HAWLEY'S BOOK, ENCOUNTERS WITH AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS

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

Series. Correspondence (Various)

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.

Series. MAX DUPAIN

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

Series. Correspondence notes (Various)

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.

Series. CRY AFRICA STORY, Letters

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.

Series. Letters from Jeffrey Smart

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

Series. HAYDEN, BILL

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!.

Series. Letters general, envelope 1

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

Series. Two large envelopes of mixed letters

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

Series. The Age Sydney Morning Herald stories

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.

Series. Envelope of stories I wrote for The Australian in 1969

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

Series. Misc letter

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

Series. Folder of stories for The Australian, 1970

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

Series. Stories for the Australian, 1971

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

Series. Misc letters ephemera

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

Series. Maroon folder. MARCOS - Features for The Australian

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

Series. Folder - 1972 Adelaide Festival

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

Series. Folder, stories 1972. general

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

Series. Stories for the Australian, 1973

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

Series. 1973-74. folder - PERSPECTIVE

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

Series. Stories I wrote for The Australian, 1974 - Folder of Perspective

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

Series. Big folder of letters and memorabilia

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

Series. 1975 stories for The Australian, envelope

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

Series. Stories for The Australian, 1976-77, envelope

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

Series. Royal Tour coverage

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.

Series. Tape Recorder

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

Series. Typewriter

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

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