Guide to the Papers of Robert Stewart Parker
MS 8200, MS Acc06.178
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Collection Summary
- Creator
- Robert Stewart Parker
- Title
- Papers of Robert Stewart Parker
- Date Range
- 1908 - 2002
- Collection Number
- MS 8200, MS Acc06.178
- Extent
- 29.31 metres (197 boxes + 1 folio box)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection documents Professor Parker's academic career and his private life interests. The papers include family and business correspondence, personal files, working papers, drafts and research material relating to his writing.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2911389).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Robert Stewart Parker, National Library of Australia, [class number/series/file number]'.
Provenance
The original consignment of papers of R.S. Parker were acquired by the Library under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme in 1990.
Further papers were added in: 1996 (Series 3, Subseries 5, File 465); March 2000 (Series 8); April 2002 (Series 9); and 4 February 2005 (Series 7, Subseries 4, Files 167-174).
Finding Aid Source(s)
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Collection Retrieval Advice
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Bibliography
Parkers' published works include: Public Service recruitment in Australia, 1942 Administrative development in Papua and New Guinea, 1971 Papua New Guinea as an emergent state, 1972 The government of New South Wales, 1978
Biographical Note
Robert Stewart Parker was born on 19 February 1915 in Artarmon N.S.W. He was educated at North Sydney Boys' High School and Sydney University. In 1938 he was appointed Lecturer in Public Administration and Secretary to the Council of the Canberra University College. From 1939 to 1945 he was Lecturer in Public Administration at Victoria University College, Wellington, (with some years' leave for war service) before returning to the Canberra University College as Lecturer in Political Science. In 1947-48 Parker was a Social Science Research Fellow at the Australian National University, and from 1949 was Professor and head of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Victoria University College. In 1954 he returned to Canberra as Reader in the Department of Political Science, Research School of Social, Sciences Australian National University. He became Professor of Political Science in 1963 and retired in 1978.
Parker was a member of a number of official, academic and cultural bodies. He was a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Life Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia, a Life Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration and the New Zealand College of Management, and a Life Member of Musica Viva Australia of which he was a Director from 1981 to 1990. He was President of the Australasian Political Studies Association in 1963-64. He was also a member of the 1957 Committee of Inquiry into Commonwealth Public Service Recruitment (Boyer Committee), the Interim Council of the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea (1962-69) and the Papua New Guinea Public Services Arbitration Tribunal (1972-73).
Item Descriptions
Class MS 8200. Original consignment
Comprises family and professional correspondence, personal files, working papers, drafts, research material, diaries, lecture notes, seminar papers, references, testimonials and other papers documenting Parker's academic career and other diverse interests including music and theatre. The papers document Parker's involvement in various organisations including the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Australasian Political Studies Association, Australian Administrative Staff College, Australian Institute of Political Science, Australian National University, Musica Viva Australia, New Zealand Administrative Staff College, Papua New Guinea Administrative College, Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration, Boyer Committee of Inquiry into Commonwealth Public Service Recruitment, Australian Research Grants Committee, New Zealand Institute of Public Administrative and the Papua New Guinea Public Services Arbitration Tribunal.
Contained in 192 boxes.
Series 1. Autobiographical
Subseries 1. Autobiography
European Festivals, Tours: Musica Viva, 1982 Tour: Locality brochures and maps Continent (File 11) - Box 2
European Festivals, Tours: Musica Viva, 1982 Tour: Locality brochures and maps Britain (File 12) - Box 2
European Festivals, Tours: Musica Viva, 1982 Tour: Buildings and exhibitions brochures (File 13-14) - Box 2
European Festivals, Tours: Musica Viva, 1986 Tour: Arrangements and finance (File [unnumbered]) - Box 3
European Festivals, Tours: Musica Viva, 1986 Tour: Buildings and exhibitions brochures (File 23) - Box 3
European Festivals, Tours: Musica Viva, Spanish Tour, 1990: Arrangements and itineraries (File 100) - Box 103
European Festivals, Tours: Musica Viva, Spanish Tour, 1990: Accommodation and finance (File 101) - Box 103
European Festivals, Tours: Musica Viva, Spanish Tour, 1990: Brochures and Information (File 102) - Box 103
Subseries 2. School and university
Series 2. Domestic activities
Subseries 1. Household records
Cars: Cortina Station Wagon (1972): Insurance and registration, 1978-1991 (File 14, 129) - Box 12, 104
Health Funds, doctors, dentists: Medibank Private: brochures and correspondence, 1988-1992 (File 136) - Box 104
Health Funds, doctors, dentists: Medicare: brochures and correspondence, 1990-1994 (File 138) - Box 104
Houses: 136 Messines Rd Wellington NZ: purchase, plans, building, sale, 1945-1946 (File 28) - Box 14
Houses: 79 Duthie St Wellington NZ: purchase, furnishing, equipment, sale, 1948-1955 (File 30) - Box 14
Houses: 39 Grey St Deakin ACT: purchase, furnishing, maintenance, sale, 1966-1969 (File 33) - Box 14
Houses: 8 Hobbs St O'Connor ACT: Electricity, heating, rates, telephone, 1969-1978 (File 34) - Box 15
Houses: 8 Hobbs St O'Connor ACT: Sale, and purchase of 54 Munro St Curtin ACT; Gas: LPG; installation of natural gas, 1980-1984 (File 39) - Box 15
Investment record of: Australian Guarantee Corporation (ex AMEV Finance), 1988-1994 (File 155) - Box 105
Investment record of: Capita (ex City Mutual) Cash Management Trust, 1986-1990 (File 56, 156) - Box 17, 105
Series 3. Extra mural activities
Subseries 1. Associations and institutions
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (before 1970 Social Science Research Council of Australia): Correspondence, 1959-1990 (File 1, 376) - Box 25, 107
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (before 1970 Social Science Research Council of Australia): Minutes of Annual General Meetings, 1986-1994 (File 2, 377) - Box 25, 107
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (before 1970 Social Science Research Council of Australia): Rules (including SSRC), 1956-1987 (File 3, 378) - Box 25, 107
Australian National University Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations: Annual Reports, 1984-1993 (File 10, 388) - Box 26, 107
Australian National University Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations: Committee of Review, 1984-1994 (File 11, 389) - Box 26, 107
Research School of Social Sciences: Political Science Department: Annual Reports, 1962-1978 (File 390) - Box 108
Research School of Social Sciences: Australian Pacific Researchers in Organisation Studies (File 19) - Box 27
Canberra Stereo Public Radio, 1988-1995: Canberra Community Television and Radio Association (File 24) - Box 27
Federation of Australian University Staff Associations - re telegram to Governor-General, Sir John Kerr (File 29) - Box 28
Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex), 1967-1974: Personal file (File 32) - Box 28
Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex), 1967-1974: History, future, relations with Government, 1966-1970 (File 33-34) - Box 28
International Institute of Administrative Sciences: Working Group (later International Association) of Schools and Institutes of Public Administration (File 36) - Box 28
International Institute of Administrative Sciences: IASIA Annual Conference, Brisbane, 1988 (File 37) - Box 29
International Institute of Administrative Sciences: London House for Overseas Graduates, 1977 (File 38) - Box 29
Musica Viva Australia Inc.: Articles of Association, Branch Regulations and Rules, 1980-1990 (File 41-42) - Box 29
Branch Roles, Regulations and Rules Sub Committee, 1989: Chronicle with successive drafts of Report (File 49-50) - Box 30
Branch Roles, Regulations and Rules Sub Committee, 1989: Chronicle and drafts concluded (File 51-52) - Box 30
Branch Roles, Regulations and Rules Sub Committee, 1989: Chronicle and drafts concluded (File 398) - Box 108
Branch Roles, Regulations and Rules Sub Committee, 1989: Copies of Sub Committee Report and Appendixes (File 54) - Box 31
Branch Roles, Regulations and Rules Sub Committee, 1989: Correspondence - general, 1980-1995 (File 56-57, 400) - Box 31, 108
Branch Roles, Regulations and Rules Sub Committee, 1989: Fund-raising activities, 1986-1987 (File 58) - Box 31
Branch Roles, Regulations and Rules Sub Committee, 1989: Fund-raising activities, 1988-1995 (File 401) - Box 108
Branch Roles, Regulations and Rules Sub Committee, 1989: General policy and relations with Branches (File 59) - Box 31
Branch Roles, Regulations and Rules Sub Committee, 1989: History; founding fathers (File 60) - Box 31
Branch Roles, Regulations and Rules Sub Committee, 1989: Marketing material and reports (File 61) - Box 31
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Annual Meetings, 1974-1988 (File 113-114) - Box 38
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Annual Meetings, 1990-1995 (File 403) - Box 109
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Annual Reports, 1973-1976, 1985-1987 (File 115) - Box 38
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Annual Reports, 1988-1993 (File 404) - Box 109
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Board and Council, 1986-1989 (File 116) - Box 37
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Board and Council, 1988-1991 (File 405) - Box 109
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Brochures, 1972-1995 (File 117, 406) - Box 38, 109
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Correspondence, 1954-1995 (File 118, 407) - Box 38, 109
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Course documents (File 119) - Box 38
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Executive Management Course, 1952, 1953 (File 120-21) - Box 38
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Executive Management Course, 1957 (File 122) - Box 39
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Origins (not received) (File 123) - Box 39
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Proposed Joint Venture, 1994 (File 408) - Box 109
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Review Course, 1973 (File 124) - Box 39
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Rule etc (File 125) - Box 39
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Rule etc (File 409) - Box 109
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Site (Kapiti) (File 126) - Box 39
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Site (Kapiti), 1994 (File 410) - Box 109
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): Twenty first Anniversary celebrations, 1973 (File 127) - Box 39
New Zealand Administrative Staff College (from 1989 New Zealand College of Management): New Zealand Institute of Public Administration (File 128) - Box 39
Papua New Guinea Administrative College: Courses and training: Diploma in Administration, 1966 (File 411) - Box 109
Papua New Guinea Administrative College: Courses and training: Magistrates and other Court Officials, 1966 (File 412) - Box 109
Papua New Guinea Administrative College: Courses and training: Management seminar, 1970 (File 413) - Box 109
Interim council proceedings: Recent reports, reports on future role, 1966-1982 (File 144-45) - Box 41
Papua New Guinea Public Services Conciliation and Arbitration Tribunal: Appointment and correspondence, 1969-1972 (File 150) - Box 42
Papua New Guinea Public Services Conciliation and Arbitration Tribunal: Background documents and clippings (File 151) - Box 42
Papua New Guinea Public Services Conciliation and Arbitration Tribunal: Claims outstanding, 1972 (File 152) - Box 42
Papua New Guinea Public Services Conciliation and Arbitration Tribunal: Health Inspectors/Extension Officers' Case, Apr-May 1972 (File 153) - Box 42
Papua New Guinea Public Services Conciliation and Arbitration Tribunal: Local Officers' Case, 1972-1973 (File 154-55) - Box 42
Papua New Guinea Public Services Conciliation and Arbitration Tribunal: Transport Drivers' Case, March 1972 (File 156) - Box 43
Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration: Annual Conferences and Life Fellowship, 1983; Australian Journal of Public Administration (File 157) - Box 43
Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration: RAIPA Publications Policy, 1991 (File 416) - Box 110
Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration: Selection of Garran Orator, 1988 (File 159) - Box 43
ACT Division: Standing Committee on Educational and Research Activities, 1956-1969 (File 164) - Box 43
Subseries 4. Public inquiries
Boyer Committee on Public Service recruitment, 1957-1968 (transferred from MS 2542): Minutes of proceedings; Correspondence (File 309) - Box 60
Boyer Committee on Public Service recruitment, 1957-1968 (transferred from MS 2542): Written submissions (File 310-11) - Box 60
Boyer Committee on Public Service recruitment, 1957-1968 (transferred from MS 2542): PSB statements and RIPA study group (File 312) - Box 60
Boyer Committee on Public Service recruitment, 1957-1968 (transferred from MS 2542): Statistics and examinations (File 313) - Box 61
Boyer Committee on Public Service recruitment, 1957-1968 (transferred from MS 2542): Working papers (File 314) - Box 61
Boyer Committee on Public Service recruitment, 1957-1968 (transferred from MS 2542): Aftermath, criticisms, implementations (File 315, 456) - Box 61, 111
Boyer Committee on Public Service recruitment, 1957-1968 (transferred from MS 2542): Drafts of reports (File 316-19) - Box 62
Boyer Committee on Public Service recruitment, 1957-1968 (transferred from MS 2542): Proofs of reports (File 320-21) - Box 62
Boyer Committee on Public Service recruitment, 1957-1968 (transferred from MS 2542): Comments for Elaine Speigel (later Thompson), 1968 (File 457) - Box 111
Constitutional Commission, 1986-1988: Appointment, Background Papers and Bulletins (File 322) - Box 63
Series 4. Academic activities
Subseries 1. Publications general
Subseries 2. Books working papers
Public Service Recruitment in Australia, 1942: Initial planning and interviews, 1937 (File 10) - Box 70
Public Service Recruitment in Australia, 1942: Correspondence and publication, 1938-1948 (File 11-12) - Box 70
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Correspondence and Contracts, 1966-1983 (File 18-19) - Box 71
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Chap. 1 Introduction: draft and notes (File 20, 221) - Box 71, 115
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Chap. 2 Representation and elections: draft and notes (File 21, 222) - Box 71, 115
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Chap. 3 Political parties: draft and revision materials (File 22-23) - Box 71
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Chap. 5 The government in parliament: draft and notes (File 25-6, 223) - Box 71, 115
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Chap. 6 Central and local administration: draft and revision materials (File 27-8) - Box 72
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Chap. 6 Central [not local] administration: miscellaneous notes (File 225) - Box 116
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Chap. 6 Central administration: Public service notes (File 226) - Box 116
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Chap. 6 Central administration: Notes on p. 5 industrial relations (File 227) - Box 116
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Chap. 6 Notes on statutory Authorities (File 228) - Box 116
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Chap. 7 Conclusions: part of draft and some revision notes (File 29) - Box 72
The Government of New South Wales, 1978: Chap. 7 Local Government: include. notes on decentralisation (File 229) - Box 116
Handbook: Anthology of Australian Music on Disc, 1989: Anthology Committee Minutes and RSP timesheets and contract (File 41-42) - Box 73
Handbook: Anthology of Australian Music on Disc, 1989: Lists, with notes, of stage I files, 1984-1989 (File 232) - Box 117
Handbook: Anthology of Australian Music on Disc, 1989: Notes for organising Stage II (Full records are in Canberra School of Music) (File 233) - Box 117
The administrative vocation: Correspondence, planning and publication, 1990-1993 (File 200) - Box 113
Subseries 3. Chapters in books - working papers
The People and the Constitution, in Federalism in Australia, Melbourne, Cheshire 1949 (File 44) - Box 74
The Government of New South Wales, in The Government of the Australian States, ed. S.R. Davis, 1960: Correspondence and contracts (File 45-46) - Box 74
Public Service neutrality: the Crighton case, in two different volumes, 1965 and 1980: Correspondence and working papers (File 47) - Box 74
Group Interests and the Non Labor Parties since 1930, in Readings in Australian Government, ed. C.A. Hughes, St Lucia, 1968 (File 48) - Box 74
Public administration, in Encyclopedia of Papua and New Guinea, MUP and Univ. of Papua New Guinea, 1972: Correspondence and contract (File 49) - Box 74
Public administration, in Encyclopedia of Papua and New Guinea, MUP and Univ. of Papua New Guinea, 1972: Text and revisions (File 50) - Box 74
Papua New Guinea 1966-1970, in Australia in World Affairs 1966-1970, ed. G. Greenwood and N. Harper, 1974: Correspondence (File 51) - Box 74
Papua New Guinea 1966-1970, in Australia in World Affairs 1966-1970, ed. G. Greenwood and N. Harper, 1974: Text (File 52) - Box 74
The Future of the Constitution, in Future questions in Australian politics, Meredith Lectures, La Trobe University, 1979 (File 53) - Box 75
The evolution of British political institutions in Australia, in Australia and Britain, ed. A.F. Madden and W.H. Morris Jones, 1980: Correspondence, 1978-1980 (File 54) - Box 75
The evolution of British political institutions in Australia, in Australia and Britain, ed. A.F. Madden and W.H. Morris Jones, 1980: Notes and text (File 55-56) - Box 75
The evolution of British political institutions in Australia, in Australia and Britain, ed. A.F. Madden and W.H. Morris Jones, 1980: Seminar on draft chapter (File 57) - Box 75
The evolution of British political institutions in Australia, in Australia and Britain, ed. A.F. Madden and W.H. Morris Jones, 1980:'ALP and Parliamentary Government' in Labor: directions for the eighties, ed. J North and P. Weller, Sydney, 1980 (File 215) - Box 115
Responsible Government in Australia, ch. 2 in Responsible Government inAustralia, ed. P. Weller and D. Jaensch, 1980: Notes, correspondence and typescript (File 58) - Box 75
Garran, Sir Robert Randolph, entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 8, 1981: Correspondence, 1969-1983 (File 59) - Box 75
Garran, Sir Robert Randolph, entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 8, 1981: Drafts and sources used (File 60) - Box 75
Garran, Sir Robert Randolph, entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 8, 1981: Working papers (File 61-62) - Box 75
Public Enquiries, ch. 8 of Policy and Practice: Essays in honour of Sir John Crawford 1987: General editing and correspondence (File 63) - Box 76
Public Enquiries, ch. 8 of Policy and Practice: Essays in honour of Sir John Crawford 1987: Drafts of chapter (File 64-66) - Box 76
Public Enquiries, ch. 8 of Policy and Practice: Essays in honour of Sir John Crawford 1987: Biographical (File 67) - Box 76
Public Enquiries, ch. 8 of Policy and Practice: Essays in honour of Sir John Crawford 1987: Organising file (File 68) - Box 76
Public Enquiries, ch. 8 of Policy and Practice: Essays in honour of Sir John Crawford 1987: Access passes to NLA MSS room; Documents, Agenda, Outline, Style and Notes for volume (File 69) - Box 76
Public Enquiries, ch. 8 of Policy and Practice: Essays in honour of Sir John Crawford 1987: Drafts of other chapters (File 70-71) - Box 76
Four IAC reports by Crawford and others (1 file): Rural income fluctuations taxation measures; Dairy industry; Rural reconstruction; Dairy industry marketing arrangements (File 80) - Box 77
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research; Ad hoc Working Committee on Japan Australia Relations (File 82) - Box 78
Recruitment, training and staff development in the Australian public services to 1975, in Dynamics in Australian Public Management, ed. A. Kouzmin and E.N. Scott, 1990: Correspondence (not received) (File 87) - Box 78
Recruitment, training and staff development in the Australian public services to 1975, in Dynamics in Australian Public Management, ed. A. Kouzmin and E.N. Scott, 1990: Working notes (File 88) - Box 78
Recruitment, training and staff development in the Australian public services to 1975, in Dynamics in Australian Public Management, ed. A. Kouzmin and E.N. Scott, 1990: Drafts (File 89) - Box 78
Recruitment, training and staff development in the Australian public services to 1975, in Dynamics in Australian Public Management, ed. A. Kouzmin and E.N. Scott, 1990: Final texts (2 versions) (File 90) - Box 79
Recruitment, training and staff development in the Australian public services to 1975, in Dynamics in Australian Public Management, ed. A. Kouzmin and E.N. Scott, 1990: Various versions of text (File 91) - Box 79
Subseries 4. Journal articles working papers
'F.A. Bland's contributions to public administration in Australia', Public Administration (Sydney): Correspondence, 1948 (File 94) - Box 79
'Some problems of research in public administration', NZ Journal of Public Administration, 1962 (File 96) - Box 79
'Public" and "private' administration" (with V. Subramaniam), International Review of Administrative Sciences, 1964 (File 98) - Box 79
'Economics before politics: a colonial phantasy', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 1971 (File 99) - Box 79
'Planning federalism and the Australian Labor Party', Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Political Studies 1976: text and correspondence (File 100) - Box 79
'Thoughts on the Constitutional crisis' (1975), RIPA (ACT) Newsletter, February 1976 (File 103) - Box 80
'Political projections and partisan perspectives', Politics 1976: correspondence (File 104) - Box 80
'The Wilenski Review', Australian Journal of Public Administration 1979:Abstract (File 105) - Box 80
Subseries 5. Unpublished projects - working papers
British background to Australian settlement, 1830-1990 (1954): Text of unpublished essay (File 109) - Box 80
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): contract, correspondence and miscellaneous notes (File 109) - Box 80
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 1 What is administration? Draft and notes (File 110) - Box 80
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 2 'Art' and 'Science' of administration Draft (File 111) - Box 81
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 3 'Public' and 'private' administration. Draft and notes (File 112) - Box 81
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 4 Policy and planning. Notes (File 113) - Box 81
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 5 The division of labour. Draft and notes (File 114) - Box 81
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 6 Decentralisation, delegation and co ordination. Notes (File 115) - Box 81
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 7 Government in business. Cuttings (File 115) - Box 81
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 8 Finance in administration. Notes (File 115) - Box 81
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 9 Staffing the public services. Notes (File 116) - Box 81
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 10 Treasury control. Notes (File 116) - Box 81
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 11 The politics of bureaucracy. Notes (File 116) - Box 81
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 12 Law and administration. Notes (File 116) - Box 81
Introduction to Public Administration. (Textbook proposed by Andrew Fabiny of F.W. Cheshire 1959): Chap. 13 Parliament and people. Notes (File 117) - Box 81
Import Licensing Study Group (RIPA ACT), 1958-1961: membership, planning, chronicle of project. Comments on draft Report by: E. Hall (File 118) - Box 81
Import Licensing Study Group (RIPA ACT), 1958-1961: membership, planning, chronicle of project. Comments on draft Report by: Stuart Harris (File 119) - Box 81
Import Licensing Study Group (RIPA ACT), 1958-1961: membership, planning, chronicle of project. Comments on draft Report by: J.L. Melhuish (File 120) - Box 81
Import Licensing Study Group (RIPA ACT), 1958-1961: membership, planning, chronicle of project: Background documents (File 121-22) - Box 82
Import Licensing Study Group (RIPA ACT), 1958-1961: membership, planning, chronicle of project: Ideas and drafts for Report (File 123) - Box 82
Import Licensing Study Group (RIPA ACT), 1958-1961: membership, planning, chronicle of project: First (extant) draft of Report (File 124) - Box 82
Import Licensing Study Group (RIPA ACT), 1958-1961: membership, planning, chronicle of project: Second (extant) 'MAIN' draft of Report (File 125) - Box 82
Import Licensing Study Group (RIPA ACT), 1958-1961: membership, planning, chronicle of project: Third (extant) 'Unmarked' draft of Report (File 126) - Box 82
Import Licensing Study Group (RIPA ACT), 1958-1961: membership, planning, chronicle of project: A comment to B.B. Schaffer on his 'Public Administration and the political and education', Oct-Nov 1962 (File 127-28) - Box 82
'Development of public services in Australia from 1788' (1962+):Correspondence, bibliography, biography and correspondence between UK and colonies (File 130) - Box 83
'Development of public services in Australia from 1788' (1962+):Civil service 19th century (File 131, 248) - Box 83, 118
'Development of public services in Australia from 1788' (1962+):British background (File 136) - Box 83
'The vow of silence' (joint collection of essays with D.C. Corbett, proposed to MUP, 1964): Correspondence and typescript text (File 137) - Box 83
The Federal Compact: Project formulation; lists of bibliography and documentary sources (File 250) - Box 118
The Federal Compact: Documents on Australian Federal history - lists and extracts (File 251) - Box 118
Subseries 6. Lectures, seminars, talks
Academic seminar papers samples (File 139) - Box 84
'Administrators born or made?' To Civil Service Institute (NZ) 1949
AMP Society administrative training, 1955-1956 (File 140) - Box 84
'Are good managers born or made?" Talk 1957
'Australian Background' proposal for ANU wide seminar, 1955-1956
Australian Economic Policy (Department of Finance), 1988
Australian Public Service Board courses and seminar: Administrative Trainees, 1968-1970, 1980 (File 142) - Box 84
Australian Public Service Board courses and seminar: Assistant Secretaries' Conferences, 1954-1965 (File 143-44) - Box 84
Australian Public Service Board courses and seminar: Management Conferences (Regional), 1962, 1966, 1967 (File 145) - Box 84
Australian Public Service Board courses and seminar: Miscellaneous seminars and talks, 1948, 1959, 1967, 1980 (File 146) - Box 85
Australian Public Service Board courses and seminar: Second Division Seminars, 1969, 1971, 1979 (File 147) - Box 85
Australian Public Service Board courses and seminar: Assistant Research Officers, 1982-1983 (File 148) - Box 85
Australian Public Service Board courses and seminar: Foreign Service Training Courses ('PNG'), 1966-1971 (File 149) - Box 85
Australian Public Service Board courses and seminar: Works: 'Parliament and the Administation', 1963, 1966, 1968 (File 150, 270) - Box 85, 119
Australian Public Service Board courses and seminar: Foreign Affairs Trainees, 1966 (File 269) - Box 119
Australian Public Service Board courses and seminar: APS Senior Executive Development Program - tender invited for management of APS Senior Executive Management Program (SEMP) - seminars on Ethics in the PS etc (File 151) - Box 84
Australian Public Service Board courses and seminar: SEMP 13 March, 14 April 1986 (File 156) - Box 86
Australian Student Christian Movement Conference, 1967: Talk on Papua New Guinea (File 157) - Box 86
Australian Student Christian Movement Conference, 1967: Bankers' Administrative Staff College, 1955-1959 (File 158-59) - Box 86
Canberra College of Advanced Education: Seminars - Ethics in government services, 1984-1987 (File 163) - Box 86
Canberra College of Advanced Education: Canberra Seminars on Administrative Studies, 1963-1982 (File 164) - Box 86
Canberra College of Advanced Education: Central Banking course - SE Asia, NZ and Aust, 1957-1958 (File 165, 271) - Box 87, 119
Canberra College of Advanced Education: Colombo Plan public administration seminar, 1962 (File 165, 271) - Box 87, 119
Canberra College of Advanced Education: Diplomatic Cadet course, Canberra University College Syllabus, examination results, reports, 1944-1947 (File 167) - Box 87
Canberra College of Advanced Education: Garran Oration 'Statesmen in Disguise', 1980 (File 168-69) - Box 87
Canberra College of Advanced Education: Government departments miscellaneous talks for (File 170) - Box 87
Canberra College of Advanced Education: 'How would I re write the Australian Constitution?' public address, Canberra, 1976 (File 171) - Box 87
NZ Public Service training: Professional Examination in Public Administration, 1949-1953 (File 176) - Box 88
NZ Public Service training: Administrative development in PNG UNE Extension Department Seminar 1967 (File 177) - Box 88
NZ Public Service training: Constitutional future of PNG Council on New Guinea Affairs Seminar April 1966 (File 177) - Box 88
Development in PNG lecture course at La Trobe University: Correspondence and reading guides (File 178) - Box 88
Development in PNG lecture course at La Trobe University: Lecture notes and graphics (File 179) - Box 88
Development in PNG lecture course at La Trobe University: District Commissioners' Seminar, 1971 (File 180) - Box 88
Future of Free Institutions in PNG 3 Seminars of Australian Association for Cultural Freedom: Correspondence, 1964-1965 (File 181) - Box 88
Future of Free Institutions in PNG 3 Seminars of Australian Association for Cultural Freedom: 2nd seminar discussion notes and summary January 1965 (File 182-83) - Box 88
Political and administrative development in PNG ANU Public Administration B course 1966. Three lectures on PNG ANU Adult Education course, 1966: 'New Guinea: Australia's challenge in 1968', to Wollongong Jaycees, February 1968 (File 185) - Box 89
Political and administrative development in PNG ANU Public Administration B course 1966. Three lectures on PNG ANU Adult Education course, 1966: 'Papua New Guinea Today' to Joint Services Wing, 1971 (File 185) - Box 89
Senior Officers' Workshop on Future of PNG Administrative College, November 1973 (File 192) - Box 89
'The Politics of Bureaucracy' summing up of RAIPA Annual Conference Sydney, 1985 (File 193) - Box 89
'Power Politics Today' lecture series for NZ Council of Adult Education, c, 1950 (File 194) - Box 90
Public Administration lectures Victoria University College 1940s, 1950s, with revisions (File 195-96) - Box 90
Public Administration as a discipline Academics' Seminar after RAIPA Annual Conference, 1985 (File 198, 273) - Box 90, 120
'Responsible government: what future?' University of London Special Lecture, 24 November 1977; (File 198, 175) - Box 90
'The Labour Government and Australian Federalism' Postgraduate Seminar, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 22 January 1975 (File 198, 175) - Box 90
'The public service in the modern state' 8 lectures at University of Sydney, July August, 1954 (File 199) - Box 90
Series 5. Academic administration
Subseries 2. Advice to universities and others
Canberra College of Advance Education: Course Advisory Committee on Administrative Degrees (File 11) - Box 92
External Affairs Department: Administrative training for overseas students, 1968-1969 (File 12) - Box 91
Griffith University Centre for Australian Public Sector Management: Review, 1992 (File 98) - Box 121
University of Papua New Guinea as External Consultant in Political Studies: Reports and documents: 1970 (File 13) - Box 92
University of Papua New Guinea as External Consultant in Political Studies: Reports and documents: 1971 (File 14) - Box 92
University of Papua New Guinea as External Consultant in Political Studies: Reports and documents: 1972 (File 14) - Box 92
University of Papua New Guinea as External Consultant in Political Studies: Reports and documents: 1973 (File 14) - Box 92
University of Papua New Guinea as External Consultant in Political Studies: Reports and documents: 1974 (File 14) - Box 92
University of Queensland Department of Government Curriculum Review, 1980: Correspondence and Report (File 15) - Box 92
University of Queensland Department of Government Curriculum Review, 1980: Working papers (File 16) - Box 92
Subseries 3. Appointments and promotions committees
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia: Membership policy and final ballots, 1964-1989 (File 19-20) - Box 93
Australian National University: Chair of Political and Social Change: 1st time of asking, 1973-1976 (File 23-24) - Box 93
Australian National University: Chair of Political and Social Change: 2nd time of asking, 1976-1977 (File 25) - Box 93
Australian National University: Chair of Political and Social Change: Director, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1971-1972 (File 26) - Box 93
Australian National University: Chair of Political and Social Change: Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1973-1975 (File 27) - Box 93
Australian National University: Chair of Political and Social Change: Professorial Fellow in Political Science, 1972-1974 (File 28) - Box 94
Australian National University: Chair of Political and Social Change: Second Chair in Political Science RSSS, 1965-1966 (File 29) - Box 94
Australian National University: Chair of Political and Social Change: Promotions Committee (File 30) - Box 94
Subseries 4. Assessments of MSS and research projects
Australian National University: Demography Department abortion survey: Development Studies Centre: Reader's report: Publications Committee: G.C. Bolton (File 42) - Box 96
Australian National University: Demography Department abortion survey: Development Studies Centre: Reader's report: Reader's report 2 (File 95) - Box 121
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Aitkin, D.A (File 43) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Atkins, Ruth (File 43) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Ballard, J.A (File 43) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Barclay, Glen (File 43) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Chapman, R.J.K (File 44) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Coaldrake, O.P (File 44) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Curnow, G.R (File 44) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Davies, A.J (File 44) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Davis, B.W (File 45) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Eldridge, P.J (File 45) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Goldring, John (File 45) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Greenwood, Gordon (File 45) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Grosart, Ian (File 46) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Haldane Stevenson, J.P (File 46) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Healy, Alan M (File 46) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Lawrence, Peter (File 46) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Mortimer, Rex A (File 47) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Nelson, Peter E (File 47)
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Painter, Martin J (File 47) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Parkin, A.W (File 47) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Pegrum, R.M (File 47) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Power, John and others (File 48) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Reid, Gordon S (File 49) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Scott, Roger D (File 49) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Spann, Richard N (File 49) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Tay, Alice E.S (File 49) - Box 96
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Thompson, Elaine V. and others (File 50) - Box 97
Australian Research Grants Committee: General file: Assessment of projects: Wolfers, Edward P (File 50) - Box 97
Subseries 5. Examinations conducted
Series 6. Research and teaching documents
Subseries 2. Commonwealth
Commonwealth: Legislature: Third parliamentary seminar on accountability, etc., 1982 (File 74) - Box 130
Administration: Public Finance: Financial Management and Audit legislation, 1994 (File 79) - Box 131
Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration: RCAGA: Appointment, aims, recommendations, 1974-1976 (File 86) - Box 131
Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration: RCAGA: Conferences on; RSP contributions to (File 87) - Box 132
Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration: RCAGA: Some Canberra Times accounts (File 88) - Box 132
Subseries 5. Theory and Teaching
Political Science: Practitioners' critiques of political science teaching, 1973 (File 240) - Box 148
Public Administration: Training for administration : Work for A.C.E.R and UNESCO, 1956-1963 (File 248) - Box 149
Public Administration: Training for administration : contribution to UNESCO Survey, 1956 (File 249) - Box 149
Public Administration: University of Queensland Honours Class 1961-1962 File 1 of 2 (File 250) - Box 150
Public Administration: University of Queensland Honours Class 1961-1962 File 2 of 2 (File 251) - Box 150
Public Administration: R.I.P.A.A. ACT Group Code of Ethics for the Public Service, 1964 (File 273) - Box 153
Series 7. Papua New Guinea Project
Subseries 2. Research documents and notes
Subseries 4. Draft of book by chapters
See also Series 9/74
Chapter 10 The 1950s: Social policy: health and educational organisation and finance (File 168-169) - Box 192
Chapter 14 The 1960s: governance, political development (3) - First House of Assembly (File 170) - Box 192
Chapter 15 The 1960s: governance - second House of Assembly to public service reconstruction (File 170) - Box 192
Chapter 19 The 1960s: economic developmetn: indigenes in cash economy to overseas aid (File 171-172) - Box 192
Series 8. Index cards - Box 185-86
Parker donated the index cards (in two wooden boxes and three metal drawers) to the Library in March 2000. The subjects include history of the civil service in the 19th century, politics and administration in New South Wales in the 1970s, church and state, and Australian politicians (eg. Joseph Cook).
Series 9. Papers received in April 2002
The series includes correspondence, alphabetical files, floppy dics and 51/4" diskettes. The Library has preserved Parker's arrangement of the papers within the manila folders and their titles.