EVALUACIÓN Y EVALUACIÓN DE PROGRAMAS

On 1 July 1971 Gough Whitlam, leader of the ALP, led a historic Labor Party delegation to the People’s Republic of China. It comprised ALP Secretary Mick Young; ALP President Tom Burns; Shadow Minister for Primary Industry Dr Rex Patterson; China expert Dr Stephen FitzGerald; and speech writer Graham Freudenberg. Whitlam’s visit took place before that of US President Richard Nixon and was extensively covered by international media, particularly his historic meeting with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai on 5 July in the Great Hall of the People. As he began the journey back to Australia, Whitlam celebrated his 55th birthday at the Peace Hotel in Shanghai. As he arrived in Tokyo some days later Whitlam heard the extraordinary news that the American National Security Advisor, Dr Henry Kissinger, had arrived in Beijing to arrange Nixon’s own visit later that year.

National Archives of Australia

PHOTOgRAPHS ReLATINg TO WHITLAm’S PARLIAmeNTARy TeRm Of OffICe,

CHRONOLOgICAL SeRIeS, 1952–78 m155

Recorded by: 1952–78 Department of the House of Representatives –

Member for Werriwa (Leader of the Opposition) (CA 692) The Hon. Edward Gough Whitlam AC, QC (CP 99)

These photographs cover Whitlam’s activities during his parliamentary career. They document family gatherings, meetings with foreign dignitaries on overseas trips, electioneering activities, and various official and unofficial occasions. Also included are publicity portraits of Gough and Margaret Whitlam and of Labor ministers.

gough Whitlam and Chou en-Lai, 1971 m155, b22

This image shows Gough Whitlam and Chou En-Lai during their historic meeting in the Great Hall of the People, People’s Republic of China, on 5 July 1971.

ALP delegation to the People’s Republic of China, 1971 m155, b22

This image shows Whitlam, the ALP delegation and representatives from the People’s Republic of China.

Whitlam and ALP delegation to the People’s Republic of China, 1971 m155, b22

This image shows Whitlam and the ALP delegation meeting with representatives from the People’s Republic of China.

National Library of Australia

ReCORDS Of THe PARLIAmeNTARy LAbOR PARTy (CAUCUS), 1906–2007 mS 6852

Quantity: 19 metres (96 boxes) + 14 cartons + 1 folio box

This extensive collection comprises Caucus minutes (1906–89);

correspondence books (1909–17); minute books; Labor Senators’ Party meetings (1915, 1916); attendance rolls for federal Labor members at Caucus meetings (1914–38); Caucus committee files; Caucus general correspondence; and agendas, resolutions, circulars, contacts, submissions, reports, committee lists and other papers. The files include information relating to the ALP Federal Executive (1956–65); Select Committee on Voting Rights for Aborigines (1960–65); federal conferences (1961, 1966); legal documents on Portuguese ship-jumping in Darwin (1962); the Richardson report on parliamentary salaries (1948–59); and files on notices of motions. The collection is restricted.

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PAPeRS Of THe AUSTRALIAN LAbOR PARTy feDeRAL SeCReTARIAT, 1917–93 mS 4985

Quantity: 117 metres (577 boxes) + 103 cartons + 3 folio boxes + 3 folio volumes

The federal parliamentary Labor Party was formed in 1901. Archibald Stewart was elected first Federal Secretary of the ALP in 1915. In 1963, Cyril Wyndam was elected the first full-time Federal Secretary. This extensive collection includes minutes, agendas and reports of meetings of the ALP Federal Executive and federal conferences, and correspondence between the Federal Secretary, ALP members of parliament and other office holders (for instance, branch secretaries). The collection is restricted.

Leader of the Opposition, 1967–72 63

SPeeCHeS PReSeNTeD by HeR mAJeSTy qUeeN eLIZAbeTH II IN

AUSTRALIA, 1954–92 mS 9174

Quantity: 0.1 metres

The collection comprises a set of speeches made by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Australia between 1954 and 1992. It is arranged chronologically within each tour. It also includes 10 speeches presented in New Zealand (7–17 February 1963).

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PAPeRS Of CLyDe CAmeRON, 1924–2004 mS 4614

Quantity: 32 metres (148 boxes) + 7 folio boxes + 114 volumes

This collection has been donated by Clyde Cameron in regular instalments since 1973. It comprises correspondence; diaries; memoirs; a wide range of ALP material, including minutes, reports, articles, press releases and speeches; Australian Workers’ Union rule books and other publications; and other material, including an extensive collection of pamphlets. Much of the collection has been collated, indexed and bound by Cameron. The collection is restricted.

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Telegram from mick young regarding invitation to Whitlam to visit

China in 1971 box 5, folder 1 Telegram to Tom burns, 21 may 1971 box 5, folder 1

A furious Cameron wrote a telegram to Burns regarding the ALP delegation to China. He insisted on the inclusion of ALP National Secretary Mick Young, who had first suggested the visit.

PAPeRS Of RICHARD HALL, 1934–2003 mS 8725

Quantity: 21 metres (132 boxes) + 3 folio boxes

This large collection contains papers accumulated by Hall during the course of his career as a journalist, author and political advisor. More than 130 boxes are organised in 36 series of papers, several of which relate to Hall’s work in the political sphere. Series 15 records his time as press secretary to Whitlam during the period 1969–72.

China and Ross Terrill – ALP delegation to China

(includes correspondence), 1971 Series 15, box 51, folder 2

This folder contains correspondence relating to the ALP delegation to China in July 1971, including Ross Terrill’s correspondence with Étienne Manac’h, French Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China. Terrill was a China expert based at Harvard and Whitlam had asked him to correspond with the French Ambassador to facilitate the visit.

Research material Series 30, box 97, folder 20

This folder is within a series that contains papers relating to ‘First days’, Hall’s working title for his unfinished biography of Whitlam. The bulk of the papers comprise Hall’s extensive research material. Folder 20 includes an extract from an unpublished autobiography by Sir William (Billy) McMahon (undated) in which McMahon acknowledged that he did not accept that the Governor-General had the power to dismiss a government.

Private collection

PRIVATe PAPeRS Of DR STePHeN fITZgeRALD

Diplomat and academic Dr Stephen FitzGerald, a China expert, was part of the ALP delegation to the People’s Republic of China in 1971. He holds a collection of photographs taken during the visit. Whitlam later appointed Dr FitzGerald as the first Australian Ambassador to China, one of the Whitlam government’s first actions.