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National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
 		 [Repository details]
Title:Lloyd Ross Papers
Reference:NLA MS 3939
Date Range:1854 - 1986
Description:Includes: correspondence, reports and cuttings relating to the Australian Council of Trade Unions [ACTU], the Australian Railways Union, adult education, industrial arbitration, automation in the transport industry, John Curtin, Frank Anstey, Industrial Commission of NSW Inquiry into Technical Change, 1958-1959. Also includes talks, broadcasts and lectures, personal correspondence and manuscripts, photographs of Lloyd and Curtin, various subject files, press cuttings printed matter and a biography of R.S. Ross.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:73 boxes & folio items (19.6 m)
Access:Available for reference, not for loan
Online Finding Aid: 'Chart 27: Employer Associations - Education', in Parties to the Award, 2002, http://www.atua.org.au/ptta/049.html.
Related Entries:Anstey, Francis (Frank) George (1865 - 1940) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU (1947 - 1979) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (ii), ACTU (1979 - 1981) | Australian Railways Union, ARU (1921 - 1993) | Chifley, Joseph Benedict (Ben) (1885 - 1951) | Curtin, John Joseph (1885 - 1945) | Mann, Tom | Ross, Dr. Lloyd (1901 - 1987)
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National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
 		 [Repository details]
Title:Maltese-Australian Folklife and Social History Project
Date Range:1998
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Terry Muscat
Interviewer: Barry York

Interview with Terry Muscat, trade unionist. Includes reference to: how he began his career in the Australian trade union movement starting with his election to the Branch Committee of Management of the Federated Ironworkers' Association in 1959; his work as a foundation member of the ACTU's Migrant Workers' Committee; his election as the State President of the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing & Engineering Employees [FIMEE]; his election to the National Executive of the Australian Workers' Union in 1995.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:4 digital audio tapes
Access:Access open for research; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee
Related Entries:Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU (1947 - 1979) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (ii), ACTU (1979 - 1981) | Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (i) (1911 - 1975) | Federation of Industrial Manufacturing & Engineering Employees (i) (1991 - 1992)
Title:Labor Council of New South Wales Oral History Project
Date Range:1988
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: John Ducker
Interviewer: Richard Raxworthy

Interview with John Ducker, former Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia. Includes reference to: working as an ironworker; becoming minutes secretary of the Ironworkers' Union; working conditions; strikes; joining the union; Industrial Groups; move to the Labor council; working for the Ironworkers' Union; conditions; relations with Hawke; Labor Council meetings; styles of chairpersons; his role as Assistant Secretary; left and right pubs; plumbers' nine-week strike; Labor Council meetings; reasons for leaving the Secretaryship; green bans; Jack Mundey; ACTU; Workskill.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:5 sound tape reels
Access:Written permission from Labor Council of New South Wales required for research and public use
Related Entries:Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU (1947 - 1979) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (ii), ACTU (1979 - 1981) | Ducker, John Patrick (1932 - ) | Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (i) (1911 - 1975) | Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (ii) (1975 - 1991) | Hawke, Robert James Lee (1929 - ) | Labor Council of New South Wales (1908 - ) | Mundey, Jack (1929 - )
Title:Labor Council of New South Wales Oral History Project
Date Range:1986
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Charlie Fitzgibbon
Interviewer: Richard Raxworthy

Fitzgibbon speaks about his family background; working at the Waterside Workers' Federation office in Newcastle; working on the Newcastle waterfront; industrial disputes in Newcastle; activities of communists in the union; becoming General Secretary; containerisation and the effects on membership; the election of Hawke as ACTU President in 1969; ACTU executive; 1979 ACTU conference.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:150 minutes
Access:Written permission from Labor Council of New South Wales required for research and public use
Related Entries:Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU (1947 - 1979) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (ii), ACTU (1979 - 1981) | Fitzgibbon, Charles Henry (1922 - 2001) | Hawke, Robert James Lee (1929 - ) | Waterside Workers Federation of Australia (i) (1907 - 1991)
Title:National Press Club Luncheon Address
Date Range:1992
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Martin Ferguson

Interview with Martin Ferguson, President of the ACTU, at the National Press Club, Canberra. Ferguson speaks about the achievements of the union movement in the 1980s, and the reforms occuring in the 1990s.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:1 digital audio tape
Access:Open
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The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
 		 [Repository details]
Reference:N88
Date Range:1969 - 1981
Description:Australian Capital Territory Division: Minutes; files; circulars; research papers; training papers; publications.
Quantity:4 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU (1947 - 1979) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (ii), ACTU (1979 - 1981)
Reference:N87; Z311
Date Range:1920 - 1991
Description:Australian Government Employees' Section, Federal Executive: Records of the High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Union; minutes; file series circulars; records regarding the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration; financial; committee records; publications.
Quantity:53.5 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations (1975 - 1981) | Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations (1969 - 1975) | High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations (1921 - 1969)
Reference:N21; N58; N68; Z282
Date Range:1906 - 1989
Description:Includes: Congress and Executive minutes and papers; correspondence; subject files; research and industrial records; circulars; press cuttings; photographs; publications; records of the President, Secretary and other officials, special units and committees.
Quantity:235 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU (1947 - 1979) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (ii), ACTU (1979 - 1981) | Commonwealth Council of Federated Unions (1923 - 1927)
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The University of Melbourne Archives
 		 [Repository details]
Title:Michael Quinlan Collection
Reference:92/95
Date Range:1944 - 1986
Description:Pamphlets dealing with ACTU Policy, Metal Trades unions, Queensland Trades & Labor Council Congress reports, Communist Party of Australia, Australian history, Workers' Control and trade unionism.
Quantity:0.1 m
Access:Open
Related Entries:Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU (1947 - 1979) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (ii), ACTU (1979 - 1981) | Trades & Labor Council of Queensland (1922 - 1993)
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University of Wollongong Archives
 		 [Repository details]
Reference:D65
Date Range:1921 - 1949
Description:Duplicated copies of minutes and reports.
Access:Restricted until processing is completed
Related Entries:Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU (1947 - 1979) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (ii), ACTU (1979 - 1981)
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Published by University of Melbourne, 7 March 2002
Based on "Parties to the Award" published 1994.
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Updated: 29 June 2006
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