Collection 1: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. N.S.W. Branch Records, 1960-1992, together with the records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Australian Section, 1963-1992

MLMSS 7028

sub-fonds

1960 - 1992

127897

17 boxes - 2.89 Meters

I. N.S.W. BRANCH

1979-1981; Minutes, 13 Mar. 1979-14. Apr. 1981 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)
1981-1982; Minutes, 12 May 1981-11 Dec. 1982 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)
1983-1984; Minutes, Feb. 1983-Oct. 1984 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)
1984-1986; Minutes, Nov. 1984-Apr. 1986 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)
1986-1991; Minutes, May 1986-June 1991 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)
1983-1987; Green plastic clip-folder of incomplete duplicate minutes, with related papers (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)
1978-1984; Meetings' attendance book (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)
1984-1991; Meetings' attendance book (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)
1965-1976; 'List of Members 1965- ' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)
1974-1978; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)
1988-1992; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)
1965-1978; 'W.I.L.P.F. Resignations and Deaths', being letters received (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)
1986-1990; Daybooks (3), being registers of correspondence and telephone calls (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)
1977-1978; 'Australian Conferences' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)
1965; Papers concerning Australian Co-operation Year Convention, Canberra, 17-20 May, 1965 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)
1988-1991; Papers concerning Women's Action Network (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/3)
1960-1986; Financial records (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/3)

II. AUSTRALIAN SECTION

1971-1972, 1976, 1982-1989; Minutes of Committee and Executive meetings (incomplete) (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/4)
1984-1989; General correspondence for Executive meetings (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/4)
1986; 'Policy & Action [Statement] 1986' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)
1984-1989; 'O'seas Sections', being correspondence with overseas sections (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)
1981-1987; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)
1980-1984; Financial records (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)
1986-1988; Papers concerning W.I.L.P.F. International Executive Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)
1986-1989; Further papers concerning W.I.L.P.F. International Executive Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)

Branch files, including correspondence and printed material:
1982-1988; 'A.C.T. Branch' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)
1989-1990; 'Wimminews (A.C.T.)' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)
1988-1989; 'N.S.W. Branch' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)
1981-1987; 'Queensland' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)
1982-1988; 'South Australia' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)
1982-1988; 'Tasmania' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)
1982-1987; 'Victoria' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)
1963, 1981-1987; 'W.A. Branch' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)

1986-1988; Papers concerning the Indian Ocean Zone of Peace Peoples Conference, Fremantle, W.A., 19-22 Sept. 1986 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)
1985-1987; Papers concerning the Great Peace Journey, 1986-1987 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)

Policy and Action files:
1982-1988; 'ACDP [Australian Coalition for Disarmament and Peace] - Current' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)
1985; 'Australian Pacific Women's Peace Conference, Sydney, 28-30 June 1985' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)
1984; 'Aust. Red X - International Humanitarian Law 1984' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)
1986-1988; 'Belau' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)
1985-1987; 'Catholic Commission for Justice & Peace - Inquiry '86' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)
1982-1985; 'C.N.F.A. [Coalition for a Nuclear Free Australia] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)
1984-1987; 'C.T.B. [Comprehensive Test Ban] Treaty Petition 25-10-84- ' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)
1987; 'Conservation - ' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)
1982-1986; 'Disarmament' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)
1975-1988; 'East Timor' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)
1985-1988; 'East Timor' [2nd file] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)
1987; 'H. Evatt Foundation - H. R. [Human Rights] in Pacific Conference 11/87' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)
1983-1988; 'Federal Status of Women', including correspondence with Office of the Status of Women and Affirmative Action Agency (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)
1987-1988; 'Fiji', including issues of Movement for Democracy in Fiji Limited Newsletter (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)
1988; 'Fiji' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)
1985-1987; 'Gabriela [A National Women's Coalition of Organizations] & Philippines' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1983-1988; 'Human Rights' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1985-1987; 'IYP [International Year of Peace]' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1988; 'Japan' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1985-1988; 'Kanaky', including Australians for Kanak Independence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1987-1988; 'Kanaky' [2nd file] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1987; 'Kerguelen [Island]' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1984; 'Kurds' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1984-1992; 'Land Rights - Aust.', including papers concerning Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1986; 'Libya' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1986-1987; 'Marshall Isles - Micronesia' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1986-1987; 'Nuclear Ships Safety - Senate Cttee - Submission 1987' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1987; 'Overseas Aid - 1987' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)
1987-1988; 'Palestine' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)
1984-1987; 'Pax et Libertas' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)
1982-1987; 'Peace Education'' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)
1984-1988; 'Peace Games / War Toys', including National Action Against War Toys (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)
1982-1988; 'Peace Research Centre, ANU' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)
1987-1988; 'Public TV' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)
1984-1988; 'South Pacific - Jt. Parlt. F.A. & Def. Cttee - Submission 1987', including papers concerning the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (Subcommittee on the South Pacific) and the South Pacific Commission Pacific Women's Resource Bureau (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)
1986; 'Sub[mission] to [Office of] Status of Women 1987' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)
198-; 'Tahita', mainly concerning French nuclear testing on Murora Atoll (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)
1986-1987; 'Union [of] Australian Women - Aust. [U.A.W.] & W.I.D. [Women's International Democratic Federation]', including correspondence with World Congress of Women (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)
1982-1986; 'UNAA Status of Women', including minutes of meetings of U.N.A.A. National Status of Women Committee, 1982-1985 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)
1985-1986; 'United Nations Decade for Women' mainly concerning The Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women adopted by the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the UNs Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Nairobi, Kenya, 15-26 July 1985 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)
1983-1988; 'UNESCO' concerning the Australian National Commission for UNESCO (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)
1990-1991; 'UNIFEM [United Nations Development Fund for Women National Committee]' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)
1987-1988; 'UNSSDIII - 1988 [Third UN Special Session on Disarmament (UNSSODIII)]' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)
1982-1985; 'Uranium 1984 & 1985' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)
1986-1988; 'Uranium 1986+' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)
1987; 'War Toys / Victim Toys' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)
1969-1985; 'West Papua' (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)
1983-1987; 'West Papua' [2nd file] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)
1987-1988; 'Women's Policies - Political Parties 1987 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)

Records concerning the 24th International Triennial Congress, Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney, 15-22 July 1989:
1986-1989; Minutes of meetings, with related papers, of the Congress and Programme Committees (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/14)
198--1990; Files, including Congress programme; Congress and Seminar Participants' Reports and Registration Reports; Branch correspondence, 1987-1990; Workshops, 1986-1989; Liaison Reports; Congress Resolutions; Finance Committee; Congress Pre Papers; Opening Address; Official Opening Speakers; and Congress Reports (Post) (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/14)
1989; Card file of Congress registrants, arranged alphabetically by country (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)
1989; 'Participants' List', being Congress registrants and Seminar participants (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)
1989; Seminar files (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)
1985-1989; Files, including Congress-Prior Publicity; Dispalys; Entertainment; Venue (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)
198--1989; Correspondence files concerning, among others, overseas sections, and Congress accounts (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/16)
1989; Report of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom : Women Building a Common and Secure Future, Sydney, Australia, 14-25 July 1989. Geneva, Switzerland : Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, International Secretariat, 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/16)

1980-1986; Records concerning the Junior Media Peace Prize (JUMPP), organised by W.I.L.P.F. and the United Nations Association of Australia, including correspondence files (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/17)

The first consignment of records of the N.S.W. Branch were presented to the Library in 1990. The records are located at MLMSS 5395, a contents list of which is held in the Mitchell Library Reading Room. The records of the Australian Section at MLMSS 7028/4-17 were chiefly compiled by its Honorary Secretary, Vivienne Abraham.