Tim Anderson - papers, 1976-1992

MLMSS 6143

fonds

1976 - 1992

Textual Records, Clippings, Photographs, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Moving Images

88930

Digitised

10.81 metres of textual material (62 boxes and 1 folder) - manuscript, computer printouts, photocopy, typescript, typescript, carbon, typescript, processed, printed, and printed, photocopy
Clippings - some photocopies
Photographs - some photocopies
Videocassette recordings
15 audiocassettes (14 hr., 29 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Tim Anderson was at the centre of Australia's longest running conspiracy case, a cause celebre resulting in his eventual pardon. He was a member of the Australian branch of Ananda Marga, an Indian-based spiritual group, and its spokesperson in the late 1970s. In 1979 he and two other members were convicted for conspiracy to bomb the headquarters of National Front leader, Robert Cameron, at Yagoona, N.S.W.. After serving seven years in prison, an Inquiry under Section 475 of the N.S.W. Crimes Act established doubt as to their guilt, and they were released and pardoned in 1985. In 1989 Anderson was charged on three counts of murder arising out of the bombing outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel on 13 Feb. 1978, which killed two council workers and a police officer. Representatives attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government (Regional) Meeting were staying at the hotel, including Indian Prime Minister, Morarji Desai. His presence became the focus of demonstrations by Australian margiis who were protesting against the wrongful imprisonment in India of their movement's founder and leader, Prabhat Sarkar, known as Baba. In June 1991 Anderson was acquitted by the Court of Criminal Appeal and released from prison. Both cases turned on the discredited evidence of the key witnesses, Richard Seary and Evan Pederick.

Include record and transcripts of committal hearings, trials and inquiries; records of interview; submissions and related material presented by Anderson in the Hilton case; material concerning anti-Apartheid court cases, 1985-1988; Ananda Marga and prison reform publications; Campaign for the Acquittal of Alister, Dunn and Anderson (CAADA) and Campaign Exposing the Frame-Up of Tim Anderson (CEFTA) material; personal trial notebooks and personal correspondence in and out of jail, 1978-1992; literary manuscripts of Free Alister Dunn and Anderson (1985), Inside Outlaws (1989) and Take Two: The Criminal Justice System Revisited (1992), and part of Tom Molomby's draft for Spies, Bombs and the Path of Bliss (1986) photographs; video and sound recordings.

SOUND RECORDINGS (Call No.: MLOH 809):
Series 01: Tim Anderson sound recordings

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