Papers [manuscript]. 1948-1965.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1948-1965.

Apart from some business papers, the collection relates almost entirely to O'Sullivan's career as a Queensland Senator and Minister in the Menzies Government. They include correspondence, reports, subject files, notes, speeches, cuttings, photographs, invitations, menus and publications. The papers are most extensive for the period 1956-1959, when O'Sullivan was Attorney-General and Chairman of the joint Committee on Constitutional Review. Correspondents include Robert Menzies, Shane Paltridge, Sir Owen Dixon, Reg Wright, Douglas Menzies and Magnus Cormack.

1.12 m. (8 boxes).

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Australia. Attorney General.

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O'Sullivan, Neil Sir, 1900-1968.

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Liberal Senator for Queensland, 1947-1968. Minister for Trade and Customs Government Leader in the Senate, 1949-1965; Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Government Leader in the Senate, 1956-1959. O'Sullivan retired from the Senate in 1962. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1948-1965. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225849662 ...

Menzies, Douglas I. (Douglas Ian), 1907-1974

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Menzies, Robert, 1894-1978

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Prime Minister of Australia, 1939-1941 and 1949-1966. Leader of the Federal Opposition, 1943-1949. Member of the House of Representatives for Kooyong, Victoria, 1934-1966. Founder of the Liberal Party of Australia. From the description of Papers of Sir Robert Menzies, 1905-1978. 1905-1978. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 219969931 Federal politician and former Liberal Prime Minister. See "Who's who in Australia" 1977, p. 770. From the description of Le...

Paltridge, Shane.

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Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee on Constitutional Review

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Cormack, Magnus Cameron, Sir, 1906-

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Wright, R. (Reg)

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Dixon, Owen

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Sir Owen Dixon, K.C.M. G. (1886-1972) is widely regarded as one of Australia's finest jurists. He was educated at the University of Melbourne and appointed acting-judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1926. He was appointed to the High Court of Australia in 1929, at the age of 43. Dixon performed a number of extra-judicial duties during World War 2, serving on the Central Wool Committee and other boards before being appointed as Australia's minister to the United States of America in 1942. H...