[UMA-SR-000000894] ACC 39 Australian Constitutional Convention Council

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IdentifierUMA-SR-000000894Extent25 filesScope and ContentThe Australian Constitutional Convention Council was established by resolution of the Brisbane plenary session of the ACC, to take over the role of the Executive Committee and continue the work of the Convention. The Brisbane Convention also recommended that the existing Secretariat be retained to serve the ACC Council and any bodies or groups convened by it. (For the full text of the resolution, see Convention Proceedings 1985, Volume I, pp.
424-426.) The Council met for the first time on 18 October 1985. John Finemore became the Council's Executive Director. In place of the former system of Convention committees, it was envisaged that sub-groups would examine particular issues (e.g. Fiscal and Economic Powers, Industrial Relations Powers, Terms of Commonwealth Parliament). However, it is not clear how active the sub-groups became.

In May 1989 the Secretariat of the Australian Constitutional Convention Council moved to the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne. In 1994 the Centre became the custodian of the Council's records following John Finemore's retirement from the position of Honorary Executive Director and the winding up of the Council's operations (see File No. 25).

ACC 39 includes correspondence of Robert Fordham (Chairman of the Steering Committee which met prior to the first meeting of the ACC Council), John Cain and John Dowd (successive Chairmen of the Council), John Finemore (Executive Director of the Council, and Honorary Consultant), John Campbell (Assistant to the Executive Director) and others. The series also contains agendas and minutes of Council meetings, position and issues papers, research papers, and other material relevant to the formation, administration and deliberations of the Council. Note that there are overlaps between the contents of the various files.

This series is closely related to the Office Administration Files in ACC 43, many of which cover years within the period of the Council's operation.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this SeriesSearch within this Series

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CreatorAustralian Constitutional ConventionRoleProvenance

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CreatorFinemore, JohnRoleProvenance

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Date1985-1994

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Preceding Series[UMA-SR-000000857] ACC 2 Executive Committee FilesRelated Series[UMA-SR-000000895] ACC 40 Whereas the People Video Files[UMA-SR-000000898] ACC 43 Office Administration Files[UMA-SR-000000899] ACC 44 Constitutional Commission Papers and Reports

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[UMA-SR-000000894] ACC 39 Australian Constitutional Convention Council