[UMA-SR-000000891] ACC 36 Secretariat Correspondence

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IdentifierUMA-SR-000000891Extent15 filesScope and ContentAt a meeting in October 1972, the Steering Committee appointed John Finemore Chief Executive Officer of the Convention and authorised him to establish a Secretariat to assist him, to be located in Melbourne. This series of files contains correspondence of John Finemore, including some letters pre-dating his appointment as Chief Executive Officer. The series also contains correspondence of Secretariat officers working with John Finemore, and various other people associated with the ACC. Some related material such as agendas, minutes, notes, press releases and press clippings may be found among the correspondence.

Apart from John Finemore, the correspondents include Vernon Abeysekera (Administrative Officer), Don Blackwood (Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer), Ann Blume (Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer), I.P.K. Vidler (Clerk to the Convention), A.R.B. McDonnell (Assistant Clerk/Clerk to the Convention), Bruce Pippett ((Legal) Research Officer), Ann Riordan (Secretary to the Victorian Delegation), Ewart Smith (Attorney-General's Department), Eric Willis (Convention Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee), secretaries and chairpersons of standing committees, and others. The correspondence concerns the Steering Committee, the Convention and committees of the Convention, submissions, establishment and operation of the Secretariat, and Convention publications.

The letters are not in strict chronological order, and the date ranges and subjects of many of the files overlap. The filing system(s) used by the Secretariat cannot be established with any certainty: some of the files follow a fairly clear sequence, whereas others are less orderly. In the item list below, files which seem to follow one another in a rough chronological sequence have been placed first, followed by files of a more miscellaneous nature.

Researchers should note that, although this series extends only up to 1982, the Secretariat continued to operate beyond that date, and that this series does not contain all the correspondence written or received by the Secretariat even for the period 1972-82.
Contemporaneous and subsequent correspondence and papers of John Finemore and the Secretariat may be found throughout the ACC collection, particularly in some of the related series listed below. [includes John Finemore's correspondence 1971+]Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this Series

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CreatorAustralian Constitutional ConventionRoleProvenance

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CreatorFinemore, JohnRoleProvenance

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Date1971-1982

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[UMA-SR-000000891] ACC 36 Secretariat Correspondence