Accession[2013.0008] Papers of Irving David SaulwickIdentifierUMA-ITE-2013000800049Scope and ContentSAUL00049 Manila folder containing loose working notes, reference material, and correspondence; relating to the Age Poll and to opinion polling more generally. Most contents date from 1990-1992. Due to the large volume of material, documents have been housed across two inventory items, SAUL00049 and SAUL00050. The manila folder is retained in SAUL00049.
Part 1 includes: data tables and handwritten calculations; enquiries regarding: purchase or use of poll data; or permission to reprint Age Poll data; notes on poll figures and draft copies of articles: 'Smokefree Policies' (1991); 'Why Have I Not Been Interviewed?' (undated); 'Sex, Age and Education' (1991); 'The Importance of Religion' (undated); 'National Memory' (undated); published letter to the editor written by Irving Saulwick in response to perceived distortions of fact made in a Herald Sun newspaper article ('Poll could be vote aid' by Shane Burke, also on file) reporting on a conservation survey commissioned by the Victorian state government; copy of Winter 1992 edition of Commercial Issues magazine, containing published letter to the editor by Saulwick responding to editorial criticism of a Saulwick Poll, with attached covering letter to Saulwick from the editor, Gerard Henderson; copy of Autumn 1992 edition of Commercial Issues magazine, containing editorial referred to above; copy of September 1992 edition of Our Country, official publication of the Country Music Association of Australia, containing a reprinted Saulwick poll table on musical tastes; copies of an opinion piece published in The Australian newspaper criticising The Age reportage of opinion poll results for the 1992 Victorian state election and an (unpublished) letter to the editor responding to the article, written by Steve Harris, editor of The Age; transcript of radio interview with Irving Saulwick broadcast on 3RN 'Daybreak', 20 December 1991; newspaper clippings including two editions of 'Student Update', a lift-out supplement to The Age - Volume 2 (February 1991) with a full page article on the Saulwick Age Poll 'The polls that take the nation's pulse' by Christine Rau, and Volume 2, number 3 (22 July 1991) with a half-page advertisement for The Age Education Unit resource publications, including the 1989 Saulwick Poll reprint book; Murray Goot, 'The Polls', draft chapter for Australia's Gulf War, Goot and Tiffen (eds); Murray Goot, 'Public Opinion as Paradox: Australian attitudes to the rate of immigration and the rate of Asian immigration 1984-1990' International Journal of Public Opinion Research Vo 3 No 3, 1991.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2013.0008 Unit 0007
Saulwick, Irving D., I.S. [Irving Saulwick] Part 1 of 2 (September 1986-16 October 1992), [UMA-ITE-2013000800049]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 01/05/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/327258
