Tim Anderson further papers, 1965-1996

MLMSS 8899

fonds

1965-1996

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Ephemera, Photographs

442280

3.25 metres of textual material (19 boxes)

Tim Anderson is an academic with degrees in economics and international politics, and a doctorate on the political economy of economic liberalisation in Australia.

Anderson was also at the centre of Australia's longest running conspiracy case. 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 February 1978, which killed two council workers and a police officer. 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.

References:
Dr Tim Anderson, Department of Political Economy, The University of Sydney.
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/political_economy/staff/academic_staff/tim_anderson.shtml
(accessed 28/3/2013)

Compiled from the Library correspondence file and the collection

Tim Anderson further papers concerning the criminal justice system, miscarriages of justice, and political activity, 1965-1996. The collection includes files titled 'Prisoner/Miscarriage', 'Personal Legal', 'CEFTAA', 'Prison and Police', 'Hilton Bombing post 1991', 'Defending yourself', NTEU, 'Doctoral thesis', 'Justice campaign', 'Personal letters', 'Irish campaign' and 'Marine campaign'.

BOX 1
Papers, printed material and ephemera concerning prisoners and miscarriages of justice, 1981-1996

Folders labelled:
AIDEX arrests, including correspondence; notes; newscuttings; flyers; photocopies of transcripts, newscuttings; 1991-1993
Miscellaneous cases, correspondence, 1992-1995
Section 475 Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), including correspondence; photocopies of papers; 1991-1992
Pastor Azad, including correspondence; photocopies of affidavit, 1989-1996
Kerry Browning, including transcript of speech; media releases; flyers; photocopies of newscuttings, reports; 1982-1992
Brewarrina 17, including notes; media releases; flyers; photocopies of law reports; 1987-1992;
Gregory Brown, including notes; newscuttings; photocopies of newscuttings; 1992-1993
Ray Brownlowe, including correspondence; photocopy of affidavit; 1992-1995
Denyse Chapman, correspondence, notes, no date
‘Children of God, jailed kids’, notes, no date
Leslie Connolly, including correspondence; notes; reports; copies of court documents; 1992-1993
Peter Schnitzerling, Russell Cox, including correspondence; photocopies of police statements and reports; newscuttings; 1990-1995;
Neil Chidiac, including correspondence; notes; copies of law reports; submissions; transcripts of interview; 1991-1996
Croatian Six, including correspondence; notes; newscuttings; photocopies of newscuttings, media releases; 1981-1993
John David, including 1 letter, 1994
Ray Denning, including correspondence; notes; newscuttings; photocopies of statements, law reports; 1981-1994

BOX 2
Papers, printed material and ephemera relating to prisoners and miscarriages of justice, 1979-1996

Folders labelled:
Police informants, miscellaneous, including letter, newscutting; 1993-1994;
Richard Doney, including letter; report; flyer; 1992-1993
David Eastman, newscuttings, 1992-1995
Kevin Gallagher, newscuttings; 1981, 1994
Shirley Hamilton-Jacobs, including notes, 1993
Andrew Kalajzich, newscuttings, 1993-1995;
John Keading, including correspondence, photocopy of Notification of Court’s Determination, 1992-1993
Sean Kennan, including correspondence; newscuttings; flyers; 1992-1993
Barry Levy, including correspondence; photocopies of notes; 1992-1993
Lifers, including newscuttings, 1993-1996
Andrew McLeod-Lindsay, Sandy Lindsay, including photocopies of court documents and newscuttings, 1990, 1994
Alec McDonald, correspondence, 1994-1995
Jonathan Manley, newscutting, 1995
Fred Many, newscuttings, 1995
Ivan Milat, newscuttings, 1994-1996
Boris Milenkowski, newscuttings, 1992-1993
Wayne Murray, including 1 letter, 1992
Gary Nye, including notes, 1992
Evan Pederick, including photocopies of newscuttings, correspondence, police report, 1992-1995
Ziggy Pohl, newscutting, 1994
Ray Pollitt, including notes, photocopy of court documents, 1992
Graham Potter, including correspondence; newscuttings; photocopies of court documents; 1991-1995
Les Rajski, newscutting, 1992
Roger Rogerson, newscuttings, 1992-1993;
George Savvas, including correspondence; reports; photocopies of court documents; notes from transcript; 1991-1992
Ian Saxon, correspondence and newscutting, 1995-1996
Jim Sheppard, including correspondence; notes; photocopies of notices, newscuttings, trial transcripts; 1992-1995
Maria da Silva, flyer, no date
E.J. Smith, including correspondence, newscuttings, 1992
Ian Steele, card, 1993
Ted Summers, correspondence, 1993-1996
Peter Tilley, notes, 1993
Dennis Walker, including photocopies of correspondence and notes, 1995
Robert Warner, newscuttings, 1993
Daniel Yock, newscutting, 1994

BOX 3
Papers and printed relating to ‘prisoners and miscarriage of justice, overseas’, including correspondence; newscuttings; notes; flyers; photocopies of letters, newscuttings; etc., 1985-1996

Folders labelled: Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1995; British miscarriages of justice, 1992; Gerard MacGee, Ireland, 1992; Miscarriages of justice: Irish prisoners, 1985-1996; American Indian miscarriages of justice, Leonard Peltier, 1989-1992; Mark Curtis, U.S., 1988-1995; Mordechai Vanunu, Israel, 1993

BOX 4
Papers concerning personal and legal matters, including correspondence; notes; newscuttings; poems; photocopies of correspondence, newscuttings, notes, transcripts of interviews, court documents; 1978-1995

Folders labelled: defamation, 1994; The Bulletin and Australian Consolidated Press defamation, 1991-1995; defamation, 1980-1995; defending defamation, 1992; compensation and related follow-ups, 1987-1994; Les Rajski-Wansborough, 1991-1992; Yagoona case, Ron Seary, 1979-1991; Darren Spooner, 1978-1991; Letters to MPs: Meredith Burgmann, 1993, John Hannaford, 1993, John Hatton [empty], Paul Whelan, 1993, Ted Mack, 1993; Poetry file, including Mary Macken file; 1979-1993

BOX 5
Papers relating to CEFTAA [Campaign Exposing Frameups and Targeting Abuses of Authority], including correspondence; notes; newscuttings; minutes of meetings; newsletters; flyers; annotated draft copies of position papers; photocopies of correspondence, records of interview, transcripts of interviews, reports; etc., 1976-1994

Folders labelled: CEFTAA mail list; leaflets relating to the Activists Rights Handbook, 1993; CEFTAA complaints, 1989-1990; CEFTAA, 1993-1994; Criminal Justice Network (CJN) , victims groups, 1993-1994; CJN, victims groups, letters, 1993-1994; CJN, 1993-1994; drafts of CJN Charter, 1993; Prison Network Position Paper, 1991-1993; CJN Charter signatories, 1993-1994; CJN and Sentencing Reform Coalition, 1993-1994; CJN, copies of letters, 1993-1994; Ombudsman files, N.S.W. and Commonwealth, 1983-1993; Council of Civil Liberties and Prisons, 1994; ‘Police Verbal’ information, including Garry Purdey, 1976-1992

BOX 6
Papers relating to prison and police files, including correspondence; notes; flyers; pamphlets; newsletters; newscuttings; photocopies of court documents, statistics, reports, papers; newscuttings and articles, ca. 1978-1994

Folders labelled: Prison vans, 1984-1991; Prison, personal, 1990-1991; Jail, 1990-1992; Junee, private prisons, 1989-1993; Women in prison, 1991?; Visitors and families of prisoners, ca. 1978-1993; Sentencing and prison statistics, 1986-1993; Jail, general, 1980-1991; Jail, 1993; HIV/AIDS in jail, 1992; Prisons, legal, 1978-1992; Parliamentary police inquiries, 1990-1993; Police unaccountability, 1992-1993; Police, ‘Dallas’ etc., 1989-1993; ICAC, police corruption, 1990-1992; ICAC, police inquiry, 1993-1994; Lesley Whalan’s thesis on ICAC informers’ inquiry, ca. 1992

BOX 7
Papers relating to politics, including correspondence; conference papers; minutes and agendas; notes; newscuttings; newsletters; flyers; pamphlets, photocopies of discussion papers, draft policies, 1 colour photograph, 1984-1995

Folders labelled: Green and new left , Rainbow Alliance, 1988-1990; Green left conference; 1993-1994; Greens, 1990-1995; Reworking Australia, Charter Group, 1993-1994; Lesbian Space Project, 1993; National Action and racists, 1984-1989; Denis Doherty MP, includes colour photograph of Tim Anderson, 1994-1995; Aboriginal Education Unit, Macquarie University, including Aboriginal Education Policy Committee, 1987-1991

BOX 8
Papers relating to Hilton bombing, including correspondence; newscuttings; photocopies of court documents; etc., 1991-1995

Folders: Hilton case indices; no date; John Melton; no date; Hilton bombing, general 1991-1995; Hilton bombing, release of files, 1995; Hilton bomb, victims campaign, ca. 1993; photocopy of draft typescript of Conspiracy: a Film about the Hilton Bombing by Daryl Dellora and Ian Wansborough, February 1994

BOX 9
Papers relating to publication of Defend Yourself: Facing a Charge in Court, by Tim Anderson and Gaby Carney, 1996; including annotated draft typescripts, notes and correspondence with the N.S.W. Law Foundation and Redfern Legal Centre Publishing; 1995-1996

BOX 10
Papers relating to the NTEU [National Tertiary Education Industry Union], including correspondence; minutes and agendas; notes; memoranda; newsletters; bulletins; etc. Includes material relating to casuals campaign, enterprise bargaining, Industrial Relations Commission claim; NTEU NSW Division, Academics’ Union; FAUSA [Federated Australian University Staff Association]; 1993-1996

BOX 11
Papers relating to Freedoms Gained, Freedoms Lost: The Political Economy of Economic Liberalisation in Australia; Tim Anderson Thesis for PhD, School of History, Philosophy and Politics, Macquarie University, January 1997. Includes 1 spiral notebook with notes and supervisor’s comments; 1 bound typescript draft copy with annotations; 1 bound typescript draft copy; 1 unbound typescript final copy; 1996-1997

BOX 12
Papers relating to Anderson’s doctoral thesis, including correspondence; notes; newscuttings; photocopies of book chapters and journal articles; etc. Includes 1 exercise book of notes; draft chapters and research material; letters received from Frank Stilwell, Department of Economics, University of Sydney; final draft copy of thesis, 2 December 1996, read by Frank Stilwell; 1965-1996

BOX 13
Papers relating to Anderson’s doctoral thesis, including draft chapters with comments and corrections; final draft chapters 1-8, 28 November 1996

BOX 14
Papers relating to Anderson’s doctoral thesis, including draft chapters, some with comments and corrections; 1994-1995

BOX 15
Papers relating to justice campaigns, including correspondence; minutes and agendas; notes; newscuttings; pamphlets; newsletters; photocopies of articles, reports, transcripts; etc. Includes material relating to Victims Rights and Civil Rights Project, New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties Inc., 1992-1996

BOX 16
Papers relating to justice campaigns, including correspondence; minutes and agendas; notes; newscuttings; pamphlets; newsletters; flyers; photocopies of articles, reports, transcripts; etc. Includes material relating to Justice Action, N.S.W. Council for Civil Liberties Inc., Activist Defence Network, Austudy Five, AIDEX cases and CEFTAA, 1992-1996

BOX 17
Personal papers, mainly correspondence received, including letters, cards, postcards, invitations etc., 1993-1996

BOX 18
Papers relating to Irish campaigns, including correspondence; newsletters; newscuttings; pamphlets; flyers; photocopies of reports; etc. Includes material relating to Irish independence, Australian Irish Congress, miscarriages of justice, etc., 1981-1993

BOX 19
Papers relating to marine campaigns, including correspondence; minutes; notes; newscuttings; pamphlets; flyers; bulletins; photocopies of reports, papers, financial statements, directories; etc., Includes material relating to national parks, Marine and Coastal Community Network, and the National Parks Association of N.S.W.; 1995-1996

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