MS 8371
National Library of Australia
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Collection Summary
- Creator
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Gordon Reid
- Title
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Papers of Gordon Reid
- Date Range
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1987-1988
- Collection Number
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MS 8371
- Extent
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7.04 metres (44 boxes)
- Language of Materials
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English
- Repository
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National Library of Australia
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises extensive research files maintained by Professor Reid and his research assistants while researching the history of the Commonwealth Parliament. The files contain notes, articles, newspaper cuttings and printed materials, as well as photocopies of primary materials dating from as early as 1861.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1845768).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Gordon Reid, National Library of Australia, MS 8371, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Provenance
The papers were donated by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library in two instalments in 1989 and 1990.
Arrangement
The files are named and arranged in a numerical sequence devised by the researchers.
The papers also contain 1987 drafts of an unpublished chronology of the Federal Parliament, 1901-1986 and drafts and proofs of Australia's Commonwealth Parliament, 1901-1988: ten perspectives published by Melbourne University Press in 1989.
Files 1.3 - 8.3 appear to correspond to the time periods discussed in the chronology, while files 9.3 onwards seem to contain background material for the Ten perspectives. There are some omissions in the numbering of the files.
Biographical Note
Professor of Politics, University of Western Australia, 1966-70, 1974-78, 1983-84; Vice-Chancellor, 1978-82; Governor of Western Australia, 1984-1989, and author and joint author of various publications on Australian politics including The politics of financial control (1966), Out of the wilderness: the return of Labor (1974), The Western Australian elections (1974), and The premiers of Western Australia, 1890-1982 (1982). Professor Reid, assisted by Dr Martin Forrest, was commissioned to write a history of the Commonwealth Parliament as part of the Parliament's Bicentenary Publications Project. Professor Reid died in 1989.
Item Descriptions
Series 1. Research files
1.3.1 Opening of Parliament, 1901 (File) - Box 1
1.3.2 Opening of Parliament - Artworks - Tom Roberts / Charles Nuttall (File) - Box 1
1.3.3 First Federal Election 1901 (File) - Box 1
1.3.4 Constitution conventions and Federation, 1897-1899 (File) - Box 1
1.3.5 Executive organisation, 1900-2 (File) - Box 1
1.3.6 Parliamentary staff and departments, 1901 (File) - Box 1
1.3.7 Standing orders and procedure, 1901 (File) - Box 1
1.3.8 Exhibition Building, Melbourne (File) - Box 1
1.3.9 Inauguration of the Commonwealth, 1901 (File) - Box 1
2.3.1 First members and senators, 1901-4 (File) - Box 1
2.3.2 Presiding officers (File) - Box 1
2.3.3 Standing orders and procedures, 1901-12 (File) - Box 1
2.3.2 Standing orders and procedure, 1901-12 (File) - Box 2
2.3.4 Electoral matters (File) - Box 2
2.3.5 Parliamentary staff departments, 1901-06 (File) - Box 2
2.3.6 Dissolutions, 1909 (File) - Box 2
2.3.7 Privilege, 1904-14 (File) - Box 2
2.3.8 Interhouse relationships, 1902-08 (File) - Box 2
2.3.9 Financial procedures, 1901-13 (File) - Box 2
2.3.10 Parliament House, Melbourne (File) - Box 2
2.3.12 Constitutional change (File) - Box 2
2.3.13 Miscellaneous, 1901-14 (File) - Box 2
3.3.1 Parliament and conscription, 1916-18 (File) - Box 3
3.3.2 Double dissolution 1914 and related issues (File) - Box 3
3.3.3 Outbreak of war - Parliament and Finance, 1914 (File) - Box 3
3.3.4 Parliament and finance, 1914-18 (File) - Box 3
3.3.5 Secret sessions, 1916 (File) - Box 3
3.3.6 Federal War Committee, 1915-16 (File) - Box 3
3.3.7 War Precautions Act, 1914-19 (File) - Box 3
3.3.7 War Precautions Act - Regulations (File) - Box 4
3.3.9 Voting/electoral matters in war-time, 1916-18 (File) - Box 4
3.3.10 Attempt to extend life of parliament in 1917 (File) - Box 4
3.3.11 Role of Parliament in war-time (File) - Box 4
3.3.12 Presiding officers, 1912-19 (File) - Box 4
3.3.13 Clerks and parliamentary staff, 1915-19 (File) - Box 5
3.3.14 Censorship, 1915-18 (File) - Box 5
3.3.15 Government and procedure, 1914-18 (File) - Box 5
3.3.16 Referendum Bills, 1914-16 (File) - Box 5
3.3.17 Labor "split", 1916 (File) - Box 5
3.3.18 Parliamentary salaries and allowances, 1918 (File) - Box 5
3.3.19 Miscellaneous (File) - Box 5
4.3.1 Parliament and finance, 1919-27 (File) - Box 5
4.3.2 Continuation of wartime controls and effect of wartime legislation (File) - Box 5
4.3.3 Voting/electoral matters (File) - Box 5
4.3.4 Presiding officers and chairman of committees, 1920-25 (File) - Box 6
4.3.5 Clerks and Parliamentary staff, 1920-22 (File) - Box 6
4.3.6 Standing orders and procedure, 1918-28 (File) - Box 6
4.3.7 Opposition/Party developments, 1920-23 (File) - Box 6
4.3.8 Senate and the exercise of its powers, 1921 (File) - Box 6
4.3.9 Referendum bills and constitutional change, 1921-28 (File) - Box 6
4.3.11 Privilege cases 1.Expulsion of Mahon 2. Other (File) - Box 6
4.3.12 Committees, 1917-40 (File) - Box 6
4.3.14 Parliament House : Move to Canberra (a) general (File) - Box 6
4.3.14 Parliament House : Move to Canberra (b) Speakers' chair and EPA (Empire Parliamentary Association) (File) - Box 6
4.3.14 Parliament House : Move to Canberra (c) The move : staff etc, papers, furniture (File) - Box 7
4.3.14 Parliament House : Move to Canberra (d) Design and construction (File) - Box 7
4.3.15 Theodore allegations, 1928 (File) - Box 7
4.3.16 General/miscellaneous (File) - Box 7
5.3.1 Background and party developments, 1931-33 (File) - Box 7
5.3.2 Opening of Parliament in Canberra (File) - Box 7
5.3.3 Electoral and voting matters (File) - Box 7
5.3.4 Presiding officers and parliamentary staff, 1929-46 (File) - Box 7
5.3.5 Procedure and standing orders, 1931-39 (File) - Box 7
5.3.6 Inter-House disputes, 1918-35 (File) - Box 8
5.3.7 Committees, 1917-45 (File) - Box 8
5.3.8 Legislation, 1934 (File) - Box 8
5.3.9 Parliament, finance and the economy, 1930-32 (File) - Box 8
5.3.10 Referendums and constitutional change, 1929-43 (File) - Box 8
5.3.11 Parliamentary salaries and allowances, 1928-49 (File) - Box 8
5.3.12 Dissolutions, 1929 (File) - Box 8
5.3.13 Miscellaneous, 1927-36 (File) - Box 8
6.3.1 Chapter six-Background (File) - Box 8
6.3.2 Chapter six-Presiding officers and parliamentary staff, 1941-51 (File) - Box 8
6.3.3 Chapter six-Procedure and standing orders, 1943-44 (File) - Box 8
6.3.4 Chapter six-Secret sessions (File) - Box 8
6.3.5 Beginning and end of World War 2 (File) - Box 8
6.3.6 Chapter six -Move to prolong parliament, 1940 (File) - Box 8
6.3.7 Chapter six-Committees 1941-44 (1 of 2) (File) - Box 8
6.3.7 Wartime Committees (2 of 2) (File) - Box 9
6.3.8 Chapter six-National Security Act and Regulations (File) - Box 9
6.3.9 Chapter six-Regulations and Ordinances Committee (File) - Box 9
6.3.10 Chapter six-Censorship, 1940-42 (File) - Box 9
6.3.11 Chapter six-Privilege, 1940-45 (File) - Box 9
6.3.12 Chapter six-Inter House Relations, 1943 (File) - Box 9
6.3.13 Chapter six-National government, 1940-41 (File) - Box 9
6.3.14 Chapter six-Advisory War Council, 1940-45 (File) - Box 9
6.3.15 Constitutional change/Commonwealth powers, 1930-44 (File) - Box 9
6.3.16 Chapter six-Other issues/miscellaneous (File) - Box 9
7.3.1 Parliament House (File) - Box 10
7.3.2 Senate, 1946-67 (File) - Box 10
7.3.3 Presiding officers parliamentary staff, 1945-65 (File) - Box 10
7.3.4 Radio broadcasting (File) - Box 10
7.3.5 Standing orders and procedure (File) - Box 10
7.3.6 Proportional representation (File) - Box 10
7.3.7 Enlargement of Parliament, 1949 (File) - Box 10
7.3.8 Double dissolution, 1951 (File) - Box 10
7.3.9 Revival of the PAC (Public Accounts Committee) (File) - Box 10
7.3.10 Joint Committee on the Constitution (File) - Box 11
7.3.11 Parliamentary salaries and allowances, 1946-64 (File) - Box 11
7.3.12 Ordinary annual services (File) - Box 11
7.3.13 Committees, 1946-66 (File) - Box 11
7.3.14 Inter-house relationships (File) - Box 11
7.3.15 Miscellaneous (File) - Box 11
8.3.1 Standing orders, 1967-81 (File) - Box 11
8.3.2 Presiding officers and Parliamentary staff, 1970-85 (File) - Box 11
8.3.3 Referendums and constitutional change (File) - Box 11
8.3.4 Parliamentary salaries and allowances (File) - Box 12
8.3.5 Staff for MPs (File) - Box 12
8.3.6 Pecuniary interests and members' qualifications (File) - Box 12
8.3.7 Procedures including quorums, sitting days (File) - Box 12
8.3.8 Inter-house relations (File) - Box 12
8.3.9 Joint sittings (File) - Box 12
8.3.10 Double dissolutions, 1974-83 (File) - Box 12
8.3.11 November 1975 (File) - Box 13
8.3.12 House of Representatives practice "the book" (Pettifer), 1958-79 (File) - Box 13
8.3.13 Fixed term parliaments (File) - Box 13
8.3.14 Parliament and the judiciary, 1971 (File) - Box 13
8.3.15 Electoral matters (File) - Box 13
8.3.16 (a) House of Representatives Committees (File) - Box 13
8.3.16 (b) Senate Committees (File) - Box 13
8.3.16 (c) Joint Committees (File) - Box 13
8.3.16 (d) Committees : Procedural issues (File) - Box 13
8.3.16 (e) Committees : General (File) - Box 14
8.3.17 Televising Parliament (File) - Box 14
8.3.18 Other, 1966-88 (File) - Box 14
9.3.1 The convention of ministerial responsibility (File) - Box 14
9.3.2 Elective ministries (File) - Box 14
9.3.4 Ministerial registrations (File) - Box 14
9.3.5 Want of confidence -censure motions (File) - Box 15
9.3.6 Constitutional conventions -responsible government (File) - Box 15
9.3.7 Judicial notice of ministerial responsibility (File) - Box 15
9.3.9 Dissolutions of Parliament (File) - Box 15
9.3.10 Westminster model (File) - Box 15
9.3.11 Administrative law (File) - Box 15
9.3.12 Responsible government and political parties (File) - Box 15
9.3.13 Responsible government and the Senate (File) - Box 15
9.3.14 Cabinet, Prime Ministers and Ministers (File) - Box 15
9.3.16 Governor-General (1 of 2) (File) - Box 16
9.3.16 Governor-General (2 of 2) (File) - Box 16
9.3.17 Ministers and public servants (File) - Box 16
10.3.1 Representation -theory and general (File) - Box 16
10.3.2 (a) Electoral legislation : Bills and Acts, 1902-83 (File) - Box 16
10.3.2 (b) Electoral legislation : Sources, secondary material etc (File) - Box 17
10.3.2 (c) Electoral legislation : Hansard debates, proceedings, 1972-77 (File) - Box 17
10.3.3 Casual vacancies (File) - Box 17
10.3.4 Preferential voting (File) - Box 17
10.3.5 Proportional representation (File) - Box 17
10.3.6 Compulsory voting (File) - Box 18
10.3.7 Electoral divisions and redistributions (a) General (b) Hansard debates, 1905, 1975-79 (File) - Box 18
11.3.1 Parliament and legislation (File) - Box 18
11.3.2 The Senate and the legislative process (File) - Box 18
11.3.3 Delegated legislation (File) - Box 19
11.3.4 Legislative drafting (File) - Box 19
11.3.5 Private members and Senators Bills (File) - Box 19
11.3.6 (a) Legislation Committees (File) - Box 19
11.3.6 (b) Legislation Committees : Bills considered (1 of 2) (File) - Box 19
11.3.6 (b) Legislation Committees : Bills considered (2 of 2) (File) - Box 20
11.3.8 Extrinsic aids for interpretation (File) - Box 20
11.3.9 Advisory opinion (File) - Box 20
11.3.10 Statutory interpretation -High Court (File) - Box 20
11.3.12 Assent and proclamation (File) - Box 20
11.3.13 Statistics (File) - Box 20
11.3.14 Parliamentary procedure on legislation (File) - Box 20
11.3.15 Constitution alteration (1 of 2) (File) - Box 20
11.3.15 Constitutional alteration (2 of 2) (File) - Box 21
11.3.16 Scrutiny of Bills Committee (File) - Box 21
11.3.17 Financial legislation (File) - Box 21
11.3.18 Amendment (File) - Box 21
11.3.19 Retrospective legislation (File) - Box 21
12.3.1 Parliament and the executive (File) - Box 21
12.3.2 Financial Procedures Budgets, 1966-86 (File) - Box 21
12.3.3 Parliamentary question (File) - Box 22
12.3.4 Bureaucracy (File) - Box 22
12.3.5 Parliamentary Committees : work and effectiveness (File) - Box 22
12.3.6 Public Accounts Committee : Auditor-General (File) - Box 22
12.3.7 Parliamentary scrutiny of administration (File) - Box 22
12.3.8 Parliament and public policy (File) - Box 22
12.3.9 Freedom of information (File) - Box 22
12.3.10 Accountability (File) - Box 23
12.3.11 Public Expenditure (File) - Box 23
12.3.12 Public Works Committee (File) - Box 23
12.3.13 Parliamentary Committees : Estimates (Senate) (File) - Box 23
13.3.1 The concept of opposition (File) - Box 23
13.3.2 Office of the Leader of the Opposition (File) - Box 24
13.3.3 Opposition : facilities, allowances etc (File) - Box 24
13.3.4 Recognition of the Opposition in Standing Orders, etc (File) - Box 24
13.3.5 Opposition in the Senate (File) - Box 24
13.3.6 Backbenchers (File) - Box 24
14.3.1 Party and Parliament : party system -general (File) - Box 24
14.3.2 Format recognition of Party (File) - Box 24
14.3.3 Party accommodation in Parliament House (File) - Box 24
14.3.4 Party officials : remuneration etc (File) - Box 24
14.3.5 Party discipline (File) - Box 24
14.3.6 Judicial notice of parties (File) - Box 24
14.3.7 Constitution conventions and party (File) - Box 24
14.3.8 A.L.P (File) - Box 24
14.3.9 Liberal Party (File) - Box 24
14.3.10 National/Country Party (File) - Box 24
14.3.11 Party coalitions (File) - Box 24
14.3.12 Parties, 1890-1910 (File) - Box 25
14.3.13 Miscellaneous (File) - Box 25
15.3.1 Parliament and media : general (File) - Box 25
15.3.2 Membership/organisation at the Press Gallery (File) - Box 25
15.3.3 Press Gallery : Melbourne, Canberra (File) - Box 25
15.3.5 Media and Privilege (File) - Box 25
15.3.6 Press Gallery -incidents (File) - Box 25
15.3.7 Parliamentary broadcasting (File) - Box 25
15.3.8 Lobbyists (File) - Box 25
15.3.9 Direct reporting -Hansard (File) - Box 25
15.3.10 Press Gallery : press clippings news items (File) - Box 25
15.3.11 Miscellaneous (File) - Box 25
16.3.1-16.3.8 Parliament : staffing/personnel, 1901-1979 (File) - Box 26
16.3.9 Parliament : staffing/personnel, 1980- (File) - Box 27
16.3.10 Pinner Report 1932 (File) - Box 27
16.3.11 Parliament : regulations (File) - Box 27
16.3.12 Parliament : staffing and appropriation (File) - Box 27
16.3.13 Parliament : general information on staff, salaries etc (File) - Box 28
16.3.14 Management reviews -House (File) - Box 28
16.3.15 Management reviews -Senate (File) - Box 28
16.3.16 Management reviews -Joint Departments (File) - Box 28
16.3.17 Public Service Act -Parliamentary provisions (File) - Box 28
16.3.17 Miscellaneous (File) - Box 29
16.3.18 Edwin Blackmore; Keith Bradshaw; Roy Bullock; Charles Gavan Duffy, Walter Gate, Frank Green, Edward Hubert, George Jenkins, John McGregor, James Odgers, Ernest Parkes, Norman Parkes, Allan Tregear, Alan Turner (File) - Box 29
16.3.9 Hansard staff and organisation (File) - Box 29
16.3.19 Hansard (File) - Box 30
16.3.20 Joint House Department : staff and organisation (File) - Box 30
16.3.21 Library staff and organisation (File) - Box 31
16.3.22 PAC/PWC to House of Reps Department, 1982 (File) - Box 31
17.3.1 Privilege - general (File) - Box 31
17.3.2 Privilege and the courts (File) - Box 31
17.3.3 Browne and Fitzpatrick case (File) - Box 32
17.3.4 Privilege - media (includes cases) (File) - Box 32
17.3.6 Privilege - newspaper clippings (File) - Box 32
17.3.7 Privilege - opinions (File) - Box 32
17.3.8 Privilege - certification (File) - Box 32
17.3.9 Joint Select Committee on Parliamentary Privilege, 1984 (File) - Box 32
17.3.11 Privilege : some recent cases (File) - Box 32
17.3.12 Crown privilege (File) - Box 33
17.3.13 Miscellaneous (File) - Box 33
18.3 [ Parliament in decline ] (File) - Box 33
19.3.1 Accommodation in provisional Parliament House (File) - Box 33
19.3.2 Early consideration of a new parliament house (File) - Box 33
19.3.3 Determination of a site (File) - Box 33
19.3.4 New and permanent parliament house - design competition (File) - Box 33
19.3.5 Design and construction of the new Parliament House (File) - Box 33
19.3.5 Design and construction of the new Parliament House (File) - Box 34
19.3.6 New Parliament House : furnishings etc (File) - Box 34
19.3.7 Accommodation in permanent building (File) - Box 34
19.3.8 Future of provisional building (File) - Box 34
20.3.1 [ presiding officers ] (File) - Box 34
21.3.1 Biographies (File) - Box 34
21.3.2 Indexes to papers (File) - Box 34
21.3.2 Index to papers (File) - Box 35
21.3.3 Members : statistics and other details (File) - Box 35
21.3.4 Parliament : books, reviews etc (File) - Box 35
21.3.5 Ceremonial (File) - Box 35
21.3.6 Women in Parliament (File) - Box 35
21.3.7 Opinions, High Court judgments (File) - Box 36
21.3.8 Public opinion polls (File) - Box 36
21.3.9 Parliamentary papers and records (File) - Box 36
21.3.11 Procedure : statistics (File) - Box 36
21.3.12 Senate files : indexes (File) - Box 36
21.3.13 House files : indexes (File) - Box 37
21.3.14 The Parliamentarian : Parliamentary reports (File) - Box 37
21.3.15 The Table : contents Unnumbered The Table : list; members; rules; Society of Clerks of files: the Table (File) - Box 37
Unfiled material (File) - Box 38
Material to be filed (File) - Box 39
Legislation Committees (File) - Box 40
Series 2. Writings
Typescript draft chronology of the Federal Parliament, 1901-1986 (unpublished) 1987 (File) - Box 41
Drafts of Australia's Commonwealth Parliament Volume 2: Perspectives 1901-1986 (File) - Box 41
Marked up publishers proofs of Australia's Commonwealth Parliament, 1901-1988: ten perspectives (File) - Box 43-44