Series 03 Part 02: Terry Callander files relating to the National Civic Council and its front organisations, 1955-1986

MLMSS 9329/Boxes 24-25

series

1955-1986

Textual Records, Graphic Materials

1114903

0.30 metres of textual material (2 boxes), some folders include photographs

Terry Callander was a member of the Victorian Branch of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) from its inception in the 1950s and also a longtime full-time DLP official.

Mark Aarons is an author and former ABC Radio National broadcaster and political advisor. He has written six books and published feature and opinion articles in many of Australia’s major newspapers and magazines. He has won various awards for his work, including the 1990 Human Rights Award for Prose.

For two decades beginning in the early 1970s Aarons worked at Radio National, first on the original Lateline program and then on Broadband. He was the founding Executive Producer of the network’s investigative documentary program Background Briefing. He was also an official of the ABC Staff Union and active in many campaigns in defence of the independence of the national broadcaster.

During his years at the ABC Aarons undertook a series of major investigations and collated large collections of files, some of which are deposited in this collection, of documents covering East Timor, the National Civic Council and papers associated with the books he has authored.

Aarons has written widely on war crimes, East Timor (which he first visited in 1975 on assignment for the ABC), the Catholic Church and the Middle East, including best-selling books The Secret War Against The Jews, Ratlines and War Criminals Welcome.

Series 03 contains papers relating to the National Civic Council, its influences and activities in trade unions and its operation of front organisations. The files were collected in the period 1977-1992 in a series of investigations for the ABC. They cover material originally held by former senior members of the NCC, the unions it controlled and includes documents from a number of NCC-controlled or influenced front organisations.

BOXES 24-25 contain the files of Terry Callander which contain comprehensive material on the DLP’s history from 1958 to 1973.

BOX 24
Folder 1
‘DLP 1958-1965’, being mainly printed material of the Australian Democratic Labor Party (Victoria), 1958-1967, including annual conference reports; newscuttings; The Fourth Christian Social Week: Lectures delivered at the University of Melbourne on the Theme ‘The Price of Freedom’, September 6 to September 13 1959, sponsored by the Institute of Social Order, Kew (Vic.); and ‘A Political Background Commentary’ by Senator Frank McManus, 23 June 1967

Folder 2
‘DLP 1966-1970’, being mainly printed material of the Australian Democratic Labor Party (Victorian Central Executive), 1966-1971, including annual conference reports

Folder 3
‘Corio Campaign 1967’ relating to the 1967 Federal By-Election for Corio, being mainly newscuttings

Folder 4
‘DLP Internal Education and Training’

BOX 25
Folder 1
‘1958 Victorian Election’ relating to Victorian State Election, May 1958 and Federal Election, 22 Nov. 1958

Folder 2
‘1969 DLP Expansion Program Report’

Folder 3
‘1973 DLP-Country Party Alliance’

Folder 4
‘1955 Election’, being ‘Analysis of Anti-Communist Labour Party Vote in the Federal Elections 1955 (Wannon Electorate) by Ted Weissenfeld and Policy Speech of Labor (Anti-Communist) candidate, Bob Joshua

Folder 5
‘Elections 1966-1970’, being mainly printed material of the Australian Democratic Labor Party

Folder 6
‘Rural Electorates and Affairs’, 1961-1966

Folder 7
‘DLP Election Material’, 1958-1967

Folder 8
‘Miscellaneous Material’, 1958-1986

Folder 9
‘Miscellaneous pamphlets’, 1956-1981

Restricted: Access requires a signed undertaking not to make any use of information contained therein, in conversation or in writing, that could cause pain or embarrassment to any living person.

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Research & study copies allowed: Applies to material in which Mark Aarons owns copyright
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Box listings compiled by Mark Aarons and amplified by Library staff