Guide to the Papers of Warren Osmond
MS 9612, MS Acc04.014
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Osmond, Warren, 1947-2000
- Title
- Papers of Warren Osmond
- Date Range
- 1884-2000 (bulk 1965-2000)
- Collection Number
- MS 9612, MS Acc04.014
- Extent
- 19.65 metres (127 ms boxes + 1 ms carton + 1 small folio box + 27 sound/av carriers)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Content
This extensive collection is comprised of materials which record the activity of Osmond's career in academia and journalism. Within the sixteen series are substantial runs of correspondence, notebooks, research files and articles produced by Osmond, as well as cuttings, reviews, index cards, photocopies, and large amounts of printed material which he used to support his writing and research. Osmond's early involvement in the radical student movement of the late 1960s at Monash University and his political activism as a member of the New Left are reflected in several series. Of special interest are the papers which document Osmond's wide network of professional contacts, his expertise in international affairs (particularly in the Middle East) and fascination with Jewish matters, and the voice he gave through his work to marginal groups such as international students. Importantly, the collection also preserves the notes and research materials which Osmond amassed whilst preparing his meticulous biography of the Victorian politician and diplomat, Sir Frederic Eggleston (1875-1954).
As well as a large circle of journalists and friends, some prominent academics, historians and intellectuals number amongst the wide range of correspondents represented in the collection. These include Henry Mayer, Humphrey McQueen, Dennis Altman, W. Macmahon Ball, Don Watson, Robert Haupt, Sir Walter Crocker, Sir Keith Hancock and Manning Clark. In addition there is some interesting original correspondence with members of Eggleston's family, particularly with his son Egan, and with Eggleston's associate, Sir John Condliffe (1891-1981).
Access
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn788555).
Copying and Publishing
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Warren Osmond, National Library of Australia [class number, box number and series and/or file number]'.
Provenance
The papers were bequeathed to the Library by Warren Osmond and transferred by his partner Juliet Richter in two instalments in December 2000 and August 2001, with the assistance of Cassandra Pybus.
Arrangement
The papers were transferred to the Library in the form in which they were found at the time of Osmond's premature death. The materials had been maintained under varying degrees of control, and the apparent disarray of some parts of the collection may reflect Osmond's intense work schedule, which left little time for adhering to formal filing systems. However, formed sequences of files were identified across the collection, and it is upon these that the final series arrangement of the papers has been based. In those instances where no existing filing system could be discerned, loose papers and unnamed files have been organised together into artificial groupings. Thus most series are an amalgam of original and imposed order, and incorporate original runs of files to which related files have been added by Library staff. At the same time, the internal composition of pre-existing files has not been rearranged, and they remain a faithful reflection of Osmond's working style.
In the course of sorting the papers, a large amount of duplicate printed material was weeded from the collection. In cases where some of these items - such as monographs and journals - were not already held, they have been added to the Library's printed Australian and overseas collections.
Separated Material
A twenty-one box collection of Osmond's papers forms part of the Rare Books and Special Collections of the Fisher Library, University of Sydney. The following items have been removed from the collection and returned to Juliet Richter: a video recording which accompanied Series 1, Files 72-73 (containing footage of the November 1997 Lateline episode on the Media Watch television program); 84 micro-cassettes previously in Series 9, relating to his writings for the Sydney Morning Herald between 1983 and 1994; a computer disk from Series 9, File 120 (containing a 1992 article published in the Asian studies review); and two cassettes which accompanied Series 10, File 26, (containing a 1995 interview with, and lecture by, Noam Chomsky).
Bibliography
Osmond also contributed to the Australian dictionary of biography and wrote many journal articles and reviews for magazines and newspapers, including Quadrant and The Australia-Israel review. Information on these works can be found in Series 6 and 13.
- The dilemma of an Australian sociology: an analysis of 'Equality and authority'. Melbourne : Arena Publications, 1972.
- 'Upstairs down under (on letters written to Audrey Tennyson and Adelaide Lubbock)', Meanjin, Vol. 38, April 1979.
- Frederic Eggleston: an intellectual in Australian politics.. Sydney : Allen and Unwin, 1985.
- 'The Russian Far East in the summer of 1992', Asian studies review, Vol. 16, No. 2, November 1992.
Biographical Note
Warren Osmond was born in Melbourne in 1947. He matriculated from Huntingtower School, Mt Waverley in 1964 and went on to study political science at Monash University, graduating with a BA in 1968. While at Monash he also became heavily involved in student politics and was co-editor of Lot's Wife, the now defunct student magazine, in 1968.
Osmond dropped out of his honours year at Monash in 1968 and travelled around Australia in 1969 working at a variety of different jobs. On his return he decided to return to university to complete his honours degree. He also resumed writing articles for student and left-wing journals, and his writings attracted the attention of Henry Mayer, then professor of political theory at Sydney University. In 1970 Mayer offered him a job in the University's Department of Government. As a tutor (1970-1972) and later, an assistant lecturer (1973-1974), Osmond developed and taught a course in the history of sociological theory whilst completing his MA thesis, 'The education of a Victorian liberal : Frederic Eggleston, 1875-1916'.
From 1976 Osmond began to focus on a literary rather than academic career. He supported himself as a freelance writer and book reviewer and continued his research for his doctoral thesis. A brief return to academia as a part-time tutor at the New South Wales Institute of Technology in 1977 helped supplement his income. During this period many of his book reviews were published in The National Times, Nation Review and Australian book review. He also worked as a publisher's reader and between 1977 and 1979 was employed in a part-time capacity for the publisher Hale and Iremonger. In 1981 he was engaged for a short period as a journalist for The National Times.
Upon obtaining his doctorate in 1982, Osmond left Australia to take up a year long Fulbright Fellowship at University of Pennsylvania. On his return he reworked his thesis into a book, Frederic Eggleston: an intellectual in Australian politics, published in 1985.
In 1983 Osmond joined The Sydney Morning Herald as an editorial (leader) writer specialising in international affairs. From 1987 he served as Foreign Editor, a position which he held until 1993. He and his foreign desk colleagues won a Walkley Award for their coverage of the coup in Russia that led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. In January 1993 Osmond moved to the position of Diplomatic Editor which required regular commentary of international affairs and Australian foreign policy. He also undertook various overseas assignments during this time. The position was abolished in June 1994 and Osmond returned to freelance work, concentrating on higher education issues and international politics. His main outlets were The Australian and The Australian Financial Review.
In 1996 he was appointed editor of Campus Review, a weekly national newspaper specialising in higher education and vocational training. During this period he was able to enlarge and reshape the public debate on higher education in Australia as well as increase the newspaper's circulation. He left the newspaper shortly before his sudden death in October 2000.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 9612. Original consignment
Comprises correspondence, notebooks, research files and articles produced by Osmond, as well as cuttings, reviews, index cards, photocopies, and large amounts of printed material which he used to support his writing and research. Osmond's early involvement in the radical student movement of the late 1960s at Monash University and his political activism as a member of the New Left are reflected in several series. Of special interest are the papers which document Osmond's wide network of professional contacts, his expertise in international affairs, particularly in the Middle East, and fascination with Jewish matters, and the voice he gave through his work to marginal groups such as international students. There are notes and research materials for Ormond's biography of the Victorian politician and diplomat, Sir Frederic Eggleston (1875-1954). Correspondents include Henry Mayer, Humphrey McQueen, Dennis Altman, W. Macmahon Ball, Don Watson, Robert Haupt, Sir Walter Crocker, Sir Keith Hancock and Manning Clark. Also, original correspondence with members of Eggleston's family, particularly with his son Egan, and with Eggleston's associate, Sir John Condliffe (1891-1981).
Contained in 125 boxes, 1 folio box.
Series 1. Correspondence, 1949-2000
Over the course of his career Osmond developed a wide circle of correspondents, including academics, writers, intellectuals, diplomats and journalists from Australia and overseas. Many of his professional acquaintances became close contacts, and those writing from the United States, Micronesia and the Middle East reflect Osmond's time spent visiting or writing about these parts of the world. To his close friends he was a writer of long and lively letters, whilst some of the more detailed correspondence with his associates contains serious discussion of aspects of political or sociological theory. Another group of files contains some interesting letters which Osmond exchanged with members of the Eggleston family - such as Eggleston's son Egan, relative Pauline Falquier, and colleague Sir John Condliffe - in the course researching his theses and biography. Other files document Osmond's Fulbright award, occasional professional disagreements, and aspects of Osmond family history.
Amongst the prominent Australians represented in this series are Henry Mayer, W. Macmahon Ball, Humphrey McQueen, John Iremonger, Dennis Altman, Don Watson, Anne Summers, Robert Haupt, Sir Walter Crocker, Sir Keith Hancock and Manning Clark. Whilst all of the correspondence files retain the same internal composition given to them by Osmond, the individual files have been arranged chronologically into a single sequence by Library staff.
In addition to the letters filed here, further correspondence in the form of letters and facsimile messages can be found dispersed through other series in the collection, particularly Series 4-6 and 9-11 which relate to Osmond's university and journalistic activities.
Family letters from S.(?) Klein (Germany), 1949, together with family photographs (some badly water damaged) (File 1)
General and personal correspondence including papers and clippings, 1963-1980, including typescript short story by Rod McFarlane (File 8)
Personal and general correspondence, 1968-1983 (File 12_13)
Correspondents include John Edwards, Byrne Mills, Camille Guy, Hugh Stretton, Geoffrey Serle, Stephen Alomes, Peter Berger, Tom Cochrane, Andrew Campbell, Baiba Berzins.
Personal and general correspondence, 1968-1998, including paper regarding the Helmer v. Nationwide News legal suit regarding 'Whose man in Moscow?' article, published in The Australian, 25 March 1995 (File 14)
Personal correspondence, 1971-1976, including discussion of the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor Government (File 22)
Personal correspondence, 1971-1977 (chiefly January-May 1977), including notes on thesis by Don Watson (File 23)
Personal and general correspondence, 1971-1992 (File 24_26)
Correspondents include Jenny Hall, Ken Rivett, Serge Lieberman, Egan Eggleston, Walter Crocker, Sir Keith Hancock, Manning Clark, Pauline Falquier, Robert Haupt, Bob Carr, Geoffrey Bolton, W. Macmahon Ball, Nonie Sharp, R.N. Span.
Personal and general correspondence, 1972-1987 (File 35_37)
Correspondents include Anne Summers, Hugo Wolfsohn.
Personal and general correspondence, 1984-1989 (File 63_67)
Correspondents include Philip McMichael, Adrian Hann, Peter Samuel, Cassandra Pybus.
Correspondence relating to Duncan Hall, 1970-1982; 'Fulbright affiliations (redundant)', 1980-1982; 'Fulbright correspondence', 1981-1983 (File 68)
Correspondence with Mervyn Hartwig and Lyndall Ryan, 1972, including a discussion of racism and the Australian Left (File 69)
Correspondence relating to doctoral thesis, 1979-1982 (File 71_72)
Correspondents include Leonie Foster, Pauline Falquier, W. Macmahon Ball, W.D. Forsyth, Arthur Phillips, Sir Walter Crocker, Sir Ronald Walker, Egan Eggleston, together with examiners' reports by Michael Roe, A.F. Davies, Allan Martin.
Correspondence with Stuart Littlemore regarding a controversial Media Watch program, 1993-1996 (File 73)
Terry Counihan, 1972; Terry Irving and Baiba Berzins, 1972-1975; Edwin Harari, 1983-1984; Gabriel Haus, 1984-1985 (File 83)
Series 2. Notebooks, 1969-2000
Osmond kept numerous notebooks throughout his career as a journalist. These notebooks document the stories he worked on and provide information about the people he met and the places he visited. The notebooks contain a wide range of information, including addresses, phone numbers, quotes and ideas for articles, interview notes and travel details. There are also notes about local and international events that attracted media coverage.
The series also contains a small number of notebooks relating to the period that Osmond spent at the University of Pennsylvania as a Fulbright Fellow. There are two personal journals spanning 1973-1974 and one journal that he kept while travelling around Australia during 1969.
A small number of additional notebooks can be found in Series 5 and Series 12.
Series 3. Early life, 1959-1964
Osmond matriculated from Huntingtower School, Melbourne, a school for Christian Science children in 1964. This series consists of miscellaneous material from Osmond's high school days including schoolbooks, scrapbooks, assignments and test papers, various certificates, ephemera and Christian Science literature. There is also a file containing poems written by various students and reports of school activities in 1962 for the school magazine.
8 files
Series 4. Monash University, 1916-1973
Osmond attended Monash University between 1965 and 1968. While at Monash he became heavily involved in student politics and in 1968 was co-editor of Lot's Wife, the now defunct student magazine, considered to be the most radical of its day. He was also a member of the Monash Christian Science Organisation. Osmond gained his BA in political science but dropped out of his honours year in 1968 and travelled around Australia undertaking various labouring jobs.
This series consists of correspondence, assignments, essays, course outlines, lecture notes and literature on the Christian Science movement, together with other papers relating to student political activity and press (including some later material).
Correspondence, 1964-1968, with the Christian Science movement including an application by Osmond to enter the Church (1964) and general correspondence while he was secretary of the Joint Committee of Christian Science Organisations at Melbourne and Monash Universities (File 1_2)
Personal correspondence with fellow Christian Scientists, 1965-1968, including Geoffrey Barratt and Peter Sutton (File 3)
'A college student writes: thought models and academic achievements', an article by Osmond which appeared in the Christian Science sentinel, Vol. 68, No. 8, 1966 (File 6)
Series 5. University of Sydney, 1916-1981
After travelling around Australia in 1969 Osmond decided to return to university and complete his honours degree. In 1970 he was offered a job in the Department of Government at Sydney University by Henry Mayer, who had been impressed by Osmond's student and left-wing writings. As a tutor (1970-1972) and later, an assistant lecturer (1973-1974), Osmond taught units on Australian and comparative politics, and developed a course in the history of sociological theory. During this time he completed his MA (Hons.) thesis on the early career of Sir Frederic Eggleston, a politician and diplomat who had applied aspects of sociological theory to public administration.
This series consists of correspondence, drafts, essays, lecture notes. It also includes a series of subject files containing research material on general sociology and individuals which Osmond had collected for his teachings.
Subseries 5_1. General correspondence and files
Correspondence, 1971-1980, relating to Osmond's academic qualifications, job applications and his thesis work, 1970-1981 (File 1)
Correspondence, 1970-1973, mainly relating to Osmond's original thesis topic on Australian sociology (File 2)
Course outline, notes and reading list for a unit titled 'Political beliefs and behaviour in Australia', 1971 (File 3)
Lecture notes for Government I, 1971, a course outline for the unit Government I, 1972, and notes on tutor requirements for Government II, 1973 (File 4)
Correspondence with Humphrey McQueen, 1973, journal articles by McQueen, 1972-1979, and course outlines for History (IIIA), 1972-1973, at the Australian National University (File 5_6)
'The place of South-East Asia in the policy of R.G. Casey', Appendix IV: an interview with Lord Casey by Peter Freeman, 23 September 1969. Part of a thesis for the unit 'Government IV' (File 7)
Series 6. Freelance writing, 1976-1987
In 1975 Osmond decided to follow a predominantly literary, rather than academic, career. He supported himself as a freelance writer and book reviewer and continued his research for his doctoral thesis. Many of his book reviews were published in The National Times, Nation Review and Australian book review. He also worked as a publisher's reader, and between 1977 and 1979 was engaged in a part-time capacity for the publisher, Hale and Iremonger. To further supplement his income, he was part-time Tutor-in-Charge of the unit 'Australian Political Biography' at the New South Wales Institute of Technology in 1977.
This series consists of correspondence, drafts, final typescripts, newscuttings and photocopies of book reviews. Osmond had arranged some of the material in files but the majority was in loose bundles resulting in some duplication within files.
For notebooks compiled by Osmond whilst working as a freelance journalist see Series 2.
Report on Tim Rowse's thesis 'Australian Liberal's theories of consensus and national character' (1976) for Arena, 1977 and a review of Australian liberalism and national character, a shortened version of his thesis for Nation Review, 1978 (File 2)
Papers relating to 'Australian Political Biography', including a course outline and bibliography, together with typescripts by Lyndall Ryan, 1977 (File 4_5)
Photocopies and newscuttings of book reviews, 1978-1984. The file also includes a small number of articles written for the Sydney Morning Herald, 1985 (File 6_7)
Correspondence, 1978-1979, and notes relating to the editing of a manuscript by Benzion Patkin on the Dunera internees. The file also contains journal articles on internment in Australia, a review of Cyril Pearl's book, The Dunera scandal (n.d.) an issue of Dunera news (1984) and a reader's report for the University of Queensland Press on Australia and the Holocaust 1939-1945 by Paul Bartrop (File 8)
General correspondence with publishers including John Iremonger from Allen and Unwin, 1979-1983 (File 9)
Loose notes, drafts, final typescripts and photocopies of book reviews, 1980-1983. File 6 also contains a list of publications by Osmond, 1972-1982 (File 10_13)
Review of a Meanjin Seminar held in November 1980 for The National Times with comments by David Marr, Deputy Editor, January 1981 (File 14)
'Working at The National Times', lecture given to Henry Mayer's course, The Politics of Information, Sydney University, 13 October 1981 (File 15)
Series 7. The National Times, 1961-1981
Osmond spent a brief period working for The National Times from June to September 1981. He had been engaged as a specialist writer in historical and literary features but resigned in September 1981 due to differences of opinion with the paper's management over his work assignments.
This series consists of drafts of stories, notes and research material accumulated by Osmond to write his articles.
File containing memos to David Marr, Deputy Editor, 1981; drafts of articles, notes, journal articles and other research material relating to a series of stories on Australia's immigration policy and Asian immigration, 1961-1981 (File 1_2)
Copies of a series of three articles on Australia's immigration policy which appeared in The National Times in September-October 1981 (File 4)
Drafts of an article on 'Beekeeper politics' and draft contributions towards an article on the Dix Report, 1981 (File 5)
Series 8. Fulbright Scholarship, 1982-1983
After obtaining his doctorate Osmond left Australia to take up a Fulbright (Post-Doctoral) Fellowship within the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1982-1983. During this time Osmond researched Australian-American intellectual relations in the inter-war years and attended advanced seminars on political sociology. This series consists of correspondence relating to the scholarship, application details and other administrative matters.
Further correspondence relating to Osmond's Fulbright award can be found in Series 1.
2 files
Series 9. Sydney Morning Herald, 1967-1997
In December 1983 Osmond joined the Sydney Morning Herald as a leader writer specialising in international affairs, at a time when the paper was recruiting outside experts for editorial positions. He continued in this role until early June 1987 when he was appointed the paper's Foreign Editor.
As Foreign Editor Osmond was responsible for the daily selection and editing of foreign news stories and gained access to many of the key decision-makers and leaders of government, business and academia. He also managed the Herald's eleven overseas staff correspondents and commissioned articles from a stable of part-time 'stringers', a number of whom became regular contributors to the paper. During this period Osmond's respected weekly international affairs columns became influential in strategic and foreign policy-making circles, and he drew wide regard for his intellectual rigour and authoritative commentaries on the Middle East. In 1991 he and his colleagues on the Herald's foreign desk won a prestigious Walkley Award for their coverage of the coup in Russia that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
In January 1993 Osmond moved to the purely writing role of Diplomatic Editor which required regular travel and commentary on international affairs and Australian foreign policy. He also undertook various overseas assignments, including local coverage of the Middle East peace process and the CARE Australia relief measures in Angola. Eighteen months later, his intellectual approach had lost favour with the paper's management and, as part of a company-wide rationalisation program, the position was abolished and Osmond returned to freelance work in June 1994.
This series includes correspondence and facsimile messages, editorials and by-lines by Osmond, articles and proofs of articles by Herald foreign desk and other correspondents, together with papers documenting Osmond's various overseas assignments. There is also a long sequence of topical files containing articles, research materials, proofs, correspondence and other papers which Osmond used to monitor, document and describe areas of special interest, such as Asia, Islam, the Middle East and the Pacific (particularly the Micronesian states of Palau and Guam).
Notebooks used by Osmond whilst at the Herald are filed in Series 2.
Subseries 9_5. By-lines, proofs and other articles
Subseries 9_6. Overseas trips
Osmond's 1994 curriculum vitae, which lists his overseas assignments between 1982 and 1994, is filed in Series 16, File 12.
Subseries 9_7. Topical files
Subseries 9_7_2. Islam
Miscellaneous issues of The Australian focus on the Middle East, The Australian minaret, Al-minibar, 1986-1990 (File 202)
Subseries 9_7_4. Pacific (including Palau and Guam)
Micronesia and Australian foreign policy : proceedings from a symposium, Australian National University, October 1987 (File 272)
South Pacific, 1991, including copy of petition in favour of Commonwealth status for Palau (File 291)
Third Pacific Islands Political Science Association (PIPSA) Conference, December 1991 (File 293_294)
Series 10. Oz-Monde Media Services, c. 1965-1999
After leaving the Sydney Morning Herald, Osmond returned to freelance work, operating under the name of Oz-Monde Media Services. He concentrated on writing about higher education issues and international politics and his main outlets were The Australian and Australian Financial Review, the latter where he was engaged as a specialist tertiary education writer for several months. Periodical assignments were also completed for The Canberra Times, The Bulletin, Asian Wall Street journal (Hong Kong), Christian Science monitor (Boston), Los Angeles Times, Radio Australia and ABC Radio. During this time Osmond also completed a six-month contract as part-time publications editor for the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific (RIAP) at the University of Sydney which is documented in Series 15. He also kept up some freelance work after joining Campus Review in February 1996.
This series consist of correspondence, drafts, notes, newscuttings and photocopies of newspaper articles relating to Osmond's freelance work.
Due to the overlapping nature of Osmond's many work activities, some further correspondence relating to Oz-Monde Media Services can be found dispersed through other series in the collection.
Subseries 10_1. General files
Photocopies of miscellaneous news items, 1977-1995 (File 5)
The topics covered include Allan Bond, Rupert Murdoch, Kerry Packer, Christopher Skase and the Middle East.
University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Master of Arts (Communication and Cultural Studies) Academic Advisory Committee, 1994-1995 (File 13)
Photocopies of various newspaper articles by Osmond without any accompanying drafts or documentation, 1994-1996 (File 14)
'The role for Australia in promoting refugee rights in the region', text of a talk given at the National Refugee Week Summit, Parliament House, Canberra, 21 June 1995 (File 16)
Editorial services including the preparation of eight stories and a media release for AIJA survey, Vol. 20, 1995, the magazine of the Australian Institute of Jewish Affairs (File 17)
Subseries 10_2. Newspaper articles
Various articles (September-October 1994) on the small Micronesian state of Palau, which gained its independence on 1 October 1994. Osmond covered the event for The Australian newspaper and also supplied articles to the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science monitor (File 21)
Various articles on Professor Noam Chomsky in The Australian and Australian Jewish news (Sydney edition), January and March 1995 (File 26)
Two articles on Martin Indyk which appeared in The Australian, 6 March 1995 and the Weekend (Financial) Review, 10 March 1995 (File 28)
Two articles in 'A world report special edition on the Pacific Rim', in the Los Angeles Times, 11 April 1995 (File 30)
'Explosive economic threshold in Gaza', Australian Jewish news, Sydney Edition, 5 May 1995 (File 31)
'More questions than answers so far on the Lockerbie bombing', Sydney Morning Herald, 20 May 1995 (File 31)
'Haunting memory of a Holocaust survivor', Australian Jewish news, Melbourne Edition, 30 June 1995 (File 32)
'Poacher turned gamekeeper' an interview with Bob Connell for The Australian, 23 August 1995 (File 35)
'The human face of Silicon Valley', an obituary notice for Richard (Rick) Gordon, The Australian, 19 April 1996. Gordon attended Monash University with Osmond. Osmond contributed two chapters to his book, The Australian New Left (1970). The file also contains two tapes of a memorial service held on 11 May 1996. (File 40)
Series 11. Campus Review, 1994-2000
Campus Review is a specialist, weekly newspaper reporting on higher education, vocational education and training issues in Australasia and produced by APN Educational Media. Its regular features include coverage of all aspects of the university system, postgraduate issues, publishing, research, information technology and news from state campuses. Warren Osmond was editor of Campus Review from February 1996 until September 2000, during which time he also contributed numerous articles to the journal. He was also able to enlarge and reshape the public debate on higher education in Australia as well as increase the newspaper's circulation.
This series consists of correspondence mainly in the form of emails and faxes, memos from APN Educational Media to newspaper staff, draft stories and photocopies of various stories by Osmond.
Notebooks kept by Osmond whilst editor of Campus Review are filed in Series 2.
Series 12. Sir Frederic Eggleston, 1884-1986
Frederic William Eggleston, lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer was born in Brunswick, Melbourne on 17 October 1875. He served on Caulfield Council in 1912-1920 and was elected mayor in 1914-1915. After returning from the First World War he won the seat of St Kilda which he held until 1927. In the 1930s he was the first chairman of the Commonwealth Grants Commission, and in 1941 became Australia's first minister to China. Eggleston's career was also distinctive by virtue of his presence at both the post-war peace conferences at Versailles in 1919 and San Francisco in 1945. Like Osmond, Eggleston maintained a strong interest in sociological theory, the principles of which he sought to apply to aspects of public administration.
Osmond's MA (Hons.) thesis was a study of Eggleston's life up until the end of 1916. He extended this research for his doctoral thesis (1982) to include a full biography of Eggleston. The resultant book Frederic Eggleston: an intellectual in Australian politics was published in 1985 to critical acclaim.
This series consists mainly of correspondence, drafts, journal articles, newscuttings, research notes, papers and book reviews relating to Osmond's research. In addition there are sound recordings on five tape reels, thought to contain material relating to Osmond's research about Eggleston.
Correspondence relating to Osmond's research of Eggleston can also be found in Series 1. Eggleston's own papers are housed in the Manuscript Collection at MS 423.
Subseries 12_1. General files
Correspondence with the National Library, State libraries and other special libraries requesting information, 1972-1979 (File 1)
'The social philosophy of F.W. Eggleston': drafts and notes for a post-graduate colloquium, 2 August 1973, within the Department of Government, University of Sydney and a draft of a later paper on Osmond's MA thesis research (File 3)
'The education of a Victorian Liberal, Frederic Eggleston 1875-1916: (being a sketch for a biography of Sir Frederic Eggleston 1875-1954)': MA (Hons.) thesis, Department of Government, University of Sydney, December 1974 (2 copies) (File 6_7)
'The courtship letters of Frederic Eggleston 1900-1904': paper presented at various seminars in September 1975, October 1975 and October 1977 (File 9_10)
Various papers: 'The courtship letters of Frederic Eggleston 1900-1904', paper presented at a postgraduate seminar on Australian cultural history, Melbourne University History Department, 13 October 1975 and 'A neurotic in nineteen hundred', paper prepared for a seminar at the Melbourne University, Department of Political Science, 10 August 1977. The file also includes a chapter outline for the thesis (1978), draft chapters (1977) and an outline of Osmond's original thesis topic (1972). (File 11)
'The political thought of F.W. Eggleston c. 1930 : George Swinburne (1931) and State socialism in Victoria (1932)': colloquium paper presented within the Department of Government, Sydney University, 5 April 1976. The file also contains notes and journal articles on Swinburne and socialism. (File 12)
'Administrative style and Sir Frederic Eggleston': a comment on a paper by Jean Holmes which appeared in the Australian Journal of Public Administration, September 1977 (File 13)
'The head at the tail of the procession: a biography of Sir Frederic Eggleston (1875-1954)' typescript presented to the Australian-Vogel National Literary Award, May 1982 (File 15)
Book reviews and congratulatory letters for Frederic Eggleston: an intellectual in Australian politics; correspondence and a publishing agreement with Allen and Unwin, 1984 (File 17)
Subseries 12_2. Research files
Lists of material relating to Eggleston held in the National Library and National Archives and other source material, 1898-1957 (File 26)
Typescript copies of letters between Eggleston and Lulu Henriques, March 1901-September 1901 (File 31)
Typescript copies of letters between Eggleston and Lulu Henriques, December 1901-December 1903 (File 32)
Notes and journal articles on Eggleston's Jewish connections including biographical information on the Henriques family and notes on Dr I. Steinberg, 1903-1976. The file also contains correspondence with Pauline (Henriques) Falquier, 1974-1978. (File 33)
Notes on Eggleston and the Round Table movement, 1911-1979. The file also includes photocopies of issues of Round Table (File 36)
Copies of correspondence between Eggleston and Sir John Latham, 1917-1946 and biographical material on Latham (File 41)
Background notes and journal articles on European sociology and British social philosophy, 1918-1971 (File 42)
Notes, journal articles and drafts for a chapter on the Australian Delegation to the Paris Peace Treaty, 1919-1979 (File 48)
Journal articles and notes for a chapter on China and the United States of America, 1941-1946 (File 58)
Photocopies of official government files held at Australian Archives relating to Eggleston's period in China, 1941-1944 (File 59_60)
Segments of original diary (1943) by Eggleston accompanied by a transcript and other Eggleston family correspondence, 1902-1954 (File 61)
Notes, journal articles and newscuttings for a chapter on post-war Australia (1947-1954), 1946-1976 (File 62)
'The Peace Treaty: a study in moral values' and 'Personalities and conferences' from his memoirs; photocopies of papers by Eggleston (n.d.) (File 71)
'First of many : a story of the first Australian trade exhibition ship Nieuw Holland 1933': undated typescript by Lorne MacDougall which was given to Osmond by Phyllis MacDougall, a relative of the Eggleston family (File 72)
Eggleston family photographs including portraits of Frederic Eggleston (great-grandfather) and John Eggleston (grandfather), biographical notes, a commonplace book belonging to Sarah Eggleston (1835-1863) and other miscellaneous items (File 73)
Photographs of Eggleston taken at various stages of his career. Most are undated and do not contain caption information (File 74_75)
Sound recordings (tape reels) thought to contain material relating to Osmond's research on Eggleston (File 75a)
[audio reel with unknown contents] (Item NLA.MS-SAV005141) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, Unbranded 7" tape, Magnetic tape reel (any size)MS folder says: 'Tapes thought to contain material relating to Osmond's research on Sir Frederic Eggleston'. Tape box says recorded music: 'Nashville Skyline' by bob Dylan; 'David's Album' and 'Farewell Angeline' by Joan Baez.
[audio reel with unknown contents] (Item NLA.MS-SAV005142) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, Hanimex 7" tape, Magnetic tape reel (any size)MS folder says: 'Tapes thought to contain material relating to Osmond's research on Sir Frederic Eggleston'. Tape box says: ' Track 1: Dan O'Neill; Track 2: Alan Roberts; Track 4: Brian Laver'.
[audio reel with unknown contents] (Item NLA.MS-SAV005143) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-024
1 item, Unbranded 7" tape, Magnetic tape reel (any size)MS folder says: 'Tapes thought to contain material relating to Osmond's research on Sir Frederic Eggleston'. No markings on tape or box
Series 13. Other writings, 1965-1973
This series lists published works by Osmond written while a university student and an academic. Other writings produced in his role as a freelance journalist can be found in Series 6 and Series 10.
Subseries 13_1. The Dilemma of an Australian sociology: an analysis of 'Equality and authority'
This work was published in 1972 by Arena Publications and is a review of Equality and authority by Sol Encel. Osmond also prepared a number of working papers on this subject for staff seminars at the University of Sydney.
Series 14. Jewish studies, 1938-1994
From early in his academic career Osmond maintained a strong interest in Jewish matters, and researched and collected a variety of papers relating to Jewish affairs. His investigations on Eggleston included a study of the Jewish community in Melbourne in the early twentieth century. In addition, Osmond was an occasional contributor to the Australian Jewish News and a noticeable participant in public forums and meetings organised by Jewish communal organisations and associations. As a journalist he became a specialist on Middle Eastern affairs.
During the 1980s Osmond undertook considerable research into the effect of the Holocaust upon the Jewish people and the work done by Dr Isaac Sternberg to set up a Jewish community in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Unfortunately this book did not come to fruition.
This series consists mainly of Osmond's research material into Jewish displacement in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s and the proposed Jewish settlement in the Kimberleys. It consists of correspondence, journal articles, handwritten notes, newscuttings, pamphlets and photocopies of documents held at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York.
Journal articles, newscuttings and notes on Jewish settlement in Australia, including the Kimberley Project, 1938-1991 (File 1)
Miscellaneous book catalogues, journal articles, newscuttings, newsletters, notes and pamphlets on Jewish affairs, 1942-1989 (File 2_3)
Four exercise books containing handwritten notes from records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), New York, covering the period 1938-1950 and relating to the Refugee Economic Corporation, 1983 (File 4_7)
Two exercise books containing handwritten notes from records held in the Imperial War Museum, London, 1983 (File 8_9)
Photocopies of documents held at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, 1983. Most are from the papers of Dr Isaac Steinberg and relate to the Kimberley Project. (File 10_13)
Correspondence with Dina Abramowicz, Reference Librarian at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1983-1988. The file also contains copies of newsletters and brochures published by YIVO, 1982-1990 (File 14)
Correspondence, 1983-1994, relating to research on Steinberg and the Kimberley Project, book reviews and talks by Osmond and his broader interests in Jewish affairs. The file also contains a photograph of Steinberg (File 15)
Journal articles, newscuttings and other biographical information on Isi Leibler, 1985-1994.The material provided background information for an article by Osmond which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald (File 16)
Series 15. Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific, 1994-1995
The Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific (RIAP) was established in 1987 as an international projects and multi-disciplinary agency of the University of Sydney. The Institute's main consultancies develop international collaborative ventures to build institutional and human resource capacities and promote network linkages between Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Clients of the Institute include APEC, AusAID, UN agencies, other government agencies and multinational companies.
Osmond was Publications Officer at the Institute in 1995, during which time he co-ordinated the publication of three quarterly newsletters and two monographs. This series consists of general correspondence, memos, notes, journal articles and some issues of the Institute's publications, AustAsian update and AustAsian papers (1995).
3 files
Series 16. Other papers, 1915-2000
This chronologically arranged series contains materials relating to miscellaneous aspects of Osmond's research, together with some personal papers and photographs documenting biographical aspects of Osmond's life and family.
Thesis 'Nation and national consciousness : Australian national consciousness', 1915 by A.P. Elkin; Ward Line passenger lists, 23, 30 January, 1932 (File 1)
Collected postcards, cartoons, posters (including historical posters on aspects of railway safety), c. 1940-1975 (File 2)
Photograph album, 1945, 1979-1981, containing photographs and snapshots of Osmond, friends and family members (File 3)
Photocopied correspondence between G.V. Portus and F.L.W. Wood regarding a D.Litt. application by Brian Fitzpatrick, from the Portus Papers, State Library of South Australia (File 5)
Class MS Acc04_014. Consignment added 2004
Comprises printed material, 22 microcassettes, six cassettes, business cards, three framed items, articles, a few letters, objects, nine notebooks and the draft of Osmond's 1980 Ph.D. thesis on Frederic Eggleston.
Contained in 2 boxes, 1 carton.
Side A: King Hussein. Side B: Button (Item NLA.MS-SAV005148) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus XD60, Microcassette / mini cassetteSide A: Green 23/02/1988. Side B: Beazley, 23/02/1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005149) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus XB60, Microcassette / mini cassetteSide A: Toon and Cohen. Side B: Iran, Robin Wright (Item NLA.MS-SAV005150) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus XD60, Microcassette / mini cassetteSide A: FFA (Item NLA.MS-SAV005151) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus XB60, Microcassette / mini cassetteSide B: Evatt (Item NLA.MS-SAV005152) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus XB60, Microcassette / mini cassette[no details] (Item NLA.MS-SAV005153) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus XB60, Microcassette / mini cassette[no details] (Item NLA.MS-SAV005154) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus XB60, Microcassette / mini cassette[no details] (Item NLA.MS-SAV005155) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus XB60, Microcassette / mini cassetteSide A and B: illegible (Item NLA.MS-SAV005157) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus XD60, Microcassette / mini cassetteSide A: Sakuma II (Item NLA.MS-SAV005158) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus XD60, Microcassette / mini cassetteTax Seminar Tape 1, 14/10/1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005159) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Realistic MC-60, Microcassette / mini cassetteLetter to Mum and Dad, 1979 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005161) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus MC-60, Microcassette / mini cassetteMarked as 1
Chuck's Talk and 1st L/A (Item NLA.MS-SAV005162) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Olympus MC-60, Microcassette / mini cassetteMarked as 2
Side A: Bu?ra. Side B: Nicholas, 11 October?? (Item NLA.MS-SAV005164) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, Sony MC-60, Microcassette / mini cassette[no details] (Item NLA.MS-SAV005167) - Cassette-Box 257
1 item, TDK MC-60, Microcassette / mini cassetteContainer List
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9 | 317-346 | Folio |
10 | 1-3 | 84 |
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10 | 12-19 | 86 |
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10 | 30-36 | 89 |
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12 | 53-57 | 109 |
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12 | 75a | Folio |
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13 | 6-10 | 119 |
14 | 1 | 119 |
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