Accession[2013.0008] Papers of Irving David SaulwickIdentifierUMA-ITE-2013000800012Scope and ContentSAUL00012 Manila folder holding loose material primarily relating to the publication and standing of the Saulwick Poll. 'Polls et al' is inscribed on the front of the folder, an alternate title is typed on leading edge: 'Australian Nationwide Polls I.D. [Irving David] Saulwick'.
Contains correspondence between Irving Saulwick and two successive editors of The Age (Alan Kohler and Bruce Guthrie), and with a Deputy Chief Executive of John Fairfax Holdings, Michael Hoy. Subjects covered include: review of polling arrangements for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers; Saulwick's suggestion for international polls and knowledge transfer within the Fairfax Group of newspapers; formal notification of the termination of the association between Irving Saulwick and Associates and the John Fairfax Group; and a proposal seeking reinstatement of the Saulwick Poll as a regular feature in the Age.
Also contains: newsclippings; draft and bound versions of a report by Irving Saulwick and Denis Muller titled 'Why The Age Should Return to Publishing the Saulwick Poll', dated November 1997; letters of comment on the Saulwick Poll (some with supplementary material attached), recieved from John Cain, Malcolm Mackerras and others in response to a request by Saulwick (a copy of the request letter and mailing list are also on file).
Also contains drafts and published copy of articles on polling written by Saulwick: 'Should You Believe the Polls?' published as 'Having trust in opinion polling' unidentified newspaper 26 February 1995; 'Green Issues Take Root' published as 'Green is the colour of the future' Canberra Times 20 February, 1995; 'Sport and Tribalism' published as 'Our society reflects a passion for sport' Canberra Times, March 17, 1995; 'Question is: can the polls be trusted?' Canberra Times, Friday March 3, 1995; 'Popular Attitudes to Federalism' The Newsletter of the Constitutional Centenary Foundation Volume 3, Number 4, December 1994'; 'Surely the Polls Can be More Careful, or, How Not to Shoot Yourself in the Foot' unpublished, undated article.
Also contains copies of published articles and chapters written by others, including: Mackerras, Malcolm 'General Election, 13 March 1993: Statistical Analysis of the Results' in Australian Journal of Political Science, volume 29, 1994; Goot, Murray 'Contingent inevitability: Reflections on the prognosis for republicanism' in We, The People (George Winterton, ed), Allen & Unwin 1994; Eckersley, Richard 'Values and Visions: Youth and the failure of Modern Western Culture' in Youth Studies Australia, Autumn 1995.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2013.0008 Unit 0001
Saulwick, Irving D., Polls et al (31 October 1994-November 1997), [UMA-ITE-2013000800012]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 11/11/2025, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/327221
