Southland Media records, 1982-2003

MLMSS 9245

fonds

1982-2003

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Objects, Drawings, Photographs

874630

Digitised

3.23 metres of textual material (19 boxes)
30 audiocassettes (31 hr., 45 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Southland Media Pty Ltd is a public relations and publishing company with clients in the trade union movement. It has produced journals, newsletters and campaign materials on behalf of clients including the Australian Workers Union, the Labor Council of NSW, the Transport Workers Union and the Australian Services Union, among others. It has undertaken consultancies in relation to trade union history and has produced the scholarly journal ‘Labour History’ on behalf of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. Since 1998 Southland Media has published ‘workSite’ in collaboration with Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney.

References:
Compiled from the Library correspondence file

BOX 1
Records concerning Transport Workers Union publications and campaigns including correspondence, media releases, newscuttings, notes, editorial copy, posters, flyers, bulletins, stickers, and black & white photographs, ca. 1982-2002. Material relates to TWU research; Delegates Seminar, 1990; TWU registration campaign, 1991; ‘TWU NSW Branch Special Award’ concerning the 2000 Olympic Games.

BOX 2
Printed material including ‘TWU news: the official journal of the Transport Workers Union, NSW Branch’, Nov. 1994- Spring 2000; ‘Proud to be a TWU member : transport workers tell their stories / [Transport Workers' Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch], 1999; TWU NSW yearbook 1995/96; ‘Road Transport Outlook 2000: the impact of micro-economic reform productivity and employment projections: a report by John Zerby, Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales’, 1991

Records concerning Australian Associated Brewers excise campaign including correspondence, newscuttings and flyers, ca. 1986-2000

BOX 3
Records concerning Australian Workers Union publications and campaigns including correspondence, media releases, newscuttings, notes, editorial copy, printing quotes, posters, flyers, bulletins and stickers. Material relates to ‘Australian Worker’ editorial copy, July and Dec. 1993, Spring 1999; AWU annual newsletter, 1993; Victorian AWU Bulletin, 1996-1997; ‘Australian Worker’ distribution, ca. 1993-1994; AWU campaign, 1997

BOX 4
Records concerning Australian Workers Union publications and campaigns including correspondence, media releases, newscuttings, notes, editorial copy, printing quotes, posters, flyers, bulletins and stickers. Material relates to ‘Australian Worker’ Autumn 1996, Summer 1997, Autumn 1998; AWU election letter and articles, 1992-1993; AWU media kit, 1991; AWU profile for workplace, 1993; printing, 1993; advertising, 1992-1995; administration, 1993-1996

BOX 5
Printed material including ‘The Australian Worker’, 1992-2003; ‘The NSW Worker’, 1998-2000; ‘The Newcastle Worker’, 1997; ‘The Aluminium Worker’, 1999; ‘Taps News’ 1998; ‘The Aviation Worker’ 1999; AWU Calendar, 2001; ‘Say Safety’, 2001

BOX 6
Records concerning Commonwealth Bank Officers Association (NSW), Finance Sector Union publications including correspondence, financial statements, media releases, newscuttings, notes, editorial copy, flyers, bulletins and stickers. Material relates to ‘The Negotiator’; amalgamation of the Finance Sector Union and the Commonwealth Bank Officers Association; anti-job cuts campaign; 1991-2000
Printed material including ‘The Negotiator: the official publication of the NSW/ACT Division of the CBOA, 1991-1994, 2000; CBOA annual report, 1990-1992, 1994

BOX 7
Records concerning Communications Workers Union publications including correspondence and editorial copy, 1993-1994
Printed material including ‘The Communicator: the newsletter of the Communications Workers Union’, 1993-1997

BOX 8
Records concerning Labour Council of New South Wales publications, including correspondence, print quotes, newsletters, bulletins, editorial copy, flyers, posters. Material relates to the penalty rates brochure, 1993; Chifley Financial Services, 1992-1993; disability awareness cultural project, 1992

Printed material includes ‘Network’, 1992-1999; ‘Worksite’ ca. 1998-2001; You manage with yours & I manage with mine : oral histories of people with disabilities in the workforce’ / collected and edited by Colleen Burke. Sydney : Labor Council of New South Wales, 1993.

BOX 9
Records concerning ‘Southland’ magazine, including correspondence, print quotes, media releases, newscuttings, notes, editorial copy, flyers. Material relates to ‘Southland’ magazine numbers 1, 3, 6, 7-11; 1993-1996

BOX 1O
Records concerning ‘Southland’ magazine, including correspondence, print quotes, media releases, newscuttings, notes, editorial copy, flyers and 2 colour photographs. Material relates to ‘Southland’ magazine advertising and administration, ‘Southland’ supplement; 1991-1996

BOX 11
Records concerning ‘Southland' magazine subscriptions, ca. 1989-1995

BOX 12
Records concerning ‘Union Issues’ and Southern Hemisphere publishing, including correspondence, editorial copy, notes, newscuttings, media releases, mailing lists, cheque book and invoices. Material relates to ‘Union Issues’ no. 4 and no. 5, accounts, Niland report research, registration of business names, Union Issues video, Southern Hemisphere mailing lists, ca. 1998-1992

Printed material includes ‘Union Issues’, 1988-1992

BOX 13
Records concerning ‘Union Issues’ including application and certificate of Registration of Business name, draft artwork, correspondence. Material relates to ‘Union Issues’ no. 1, no. 12, no. 14; ca. 1987-1992

BOX 14
Records concerning Australian Workers Union history project, including correspondence, notes, photocopies of journal articles, transcripts of interviews and draft manuscripts. Material includes typescript and handwritten draft chapters of ‘One big union : a history of the Australian Workers Union 1886-1994’ by Mark Hearn and Harry Knowles, 1996; Queensland research notes, 1989, 1996; transcripts of interviews with Clyde Cameron, 12 May 1994; Bill Hall, 10 Feb. 1994; George Pont, 26 Feb. 1992; Gerry Goding, 27 Feb. 1992; Laurie Buckman, 25 Feb. 1992; Reg Mawbey, 7 July 1993; Neil Byron, 22 July 1993; Edgar Williams, 25 Feb. 1992

BOX 15
Records concerning Australian Railways Union history project, including correspondence, research notes, newscuttings, photocopies of photographs of ARU members, posters. Material relates to publication and launch of the book and sound cassette ‘Working lives : a history of the Australian Railways Union (NSW Branch)’; 1987-1992

Records concerning Australian Bank Employees Union (State Bank Branch) publications, including correspondence, newscuttings, newsletters, black & white photographs. Material relates to ABEU research, 1989; ‘Statewide’, 1990-1991

BOX 16
Records concerning Southland Media publications and services including correspondence, newscuttings, bromides, letterheads, leaflets, print quotes, information kits. Material relates to Chifley Financial Services, tender for ALP ‘Labor Times’, Musicians Union of Australia;1991-1999

BOX 17
Records concerning Southern Media, and Southland Hemisphere Seminars, including correspondence, research notes, transcripts of speeches etc. Material relates to ‘Government Advertising Seminar (tendering and publicity control)’, 25 Mar. 1993; ‘Breaking the productivity chains? Decentralised wages policy and the fightback package, a one-day seminar’, 22 May 1992; ‘Industrial Relations in the Public Sector’, 28-29 Mar. 1994. Also Includes a ringbinder folder labelled ‘Southern Hemisphere Seminars: company register and minutes’, containing financial statements, minutes of meetings, company st register of officers; etc., ca. 1990

BOX 18
Records concerning Tenants Union of NSW history project, including correspondence, research notes, ‘Tenant News’; 1996

Records concerning ‘workSite’, including correspondence, notes, cost estimates, editorial copy, newscuttings, media releases, newsletters;1997-1998. Also includes a folder labelled ‘Baryulgil’, including notes, newscuttings, reports, 1996

BOX 19
Printed material relating to the Municipal Employees Union and the Australian Services Union (Clerical and Administration Branch) including flyers; information booklets; leaflets; posters; calendars etc; ‘ASU Office News’, the official journal of the NSW Clerical and Administrative Branch (Federated Clerks Union and Australia, NSW Branch), 1997-2002; ‘The Counsellor, the official journal of the Federated Municipal & Shire Council Employees Union of Australia, NSW Division’, 1996-2002; MEU flyers, information booklets, ca. 1999-2001

SOUND RECORDINGS (Call No.: MLOH 741):
Series 01: Sound recordings of Southland Media and Australian Workers Union History Project interviews

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