Australia - Social life and customs

Date: 2002, [2003]

By: Lutheran Church of New Zealand

Reference: MS-Papers-8080

Description: Memoir recorded by Gerhard Fischer in 2002 describing his life; he begins from the time of his birth in 1918, describes family circumstances, living in Adelaide, their church associations, economic situation, education, training as a minister, his marriage, birth of his children, his various postings which included Christchurch, New Zealand, from which he travelled to Timaru, Dunedin and Hanmer Springs ministerting to immigrants, other travel experiences, family changes and development etc Source of title - Supplied and transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with photocopies of photographs and illustrations Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Lutheran Church of New Zealand, per Rev Dr Steen Olsen, Palmerston North, Aug 2004

Date: 1835-1865

By: White, John, active 1840-1847

Reference: MS-Papers-1643

Description: Letters to John White of Knowle, near Lichfield, England, re the Allport family's misfortunes after their arrival in Sydney in 1839 and their life, prospects, prices etc in Australia (1847); also J H White's letter from Otahuhu on the depressed state of New Zealand, land, climate, etc (1865) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 1842-1844

From: Natusch family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1640-1

Description: Diary (1842-1844) which includes journal kept on voyage from England to Sydney (21 Dec 1842-6 Jun 1843) and entries made during Natusch's stay in Sydney, and journal kept on board the `Palestine' from Sydney to London (27 Feb-17 Jun 1844). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1832-1907

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2061

Description: Comprise selected records of the Adams and Elwes families, the diaries of Dudley Cary Elwes, and the papers of E S Burton from the Daventry collection Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1959-1969

From: Roff, William R, 1929-2013 : Letters from John Mansfield Thomson

Reference: MS-Papers-7024-1

Description: Letters from Thomson to Roff from 1959 to 1969. Thomson's letters were written from New Zealand and Australia, on board the `Fair sky' en route to London in 1961, from London and from New York and other places he visited until the end of 1969. Thomson used a variety of letterheads including APRA, Faber and Faber, Barrie and Rockliff and the `Fair sky'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 29, 30 Mar 2011 - 7, 12, 19 Apr 2011 - 29 Mar 2011 - 19 Apr 2011

From: To the ends of the world - trans Tasman migration in the 1950s oral history project

By: Potter, Donald James, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0991-04

Description: Donald James Potter, born at Newcastle, New South Wales in 1932. Recalls details of his grandparents' lives, hard working lives of his mother who died at 41 years and his father who worked as plasterer and steel worker. Tells of being bought up in the industrial 'Pommie' land of Newcastle, being in baby contests, food during The Depression, Christmas, games with siblings and playing cricket for Waratah. Talks of Japanese attacking Newcastle, Sydney and Darwin in World War Two. Tells of family attitude towards education, his own disinterest and preference for cricket. Recalls childhood home and shifting to a new house at 14 before his father moved in with a lady and the family went their own ways. Talks about his first job at 14 at Breckenridges Department store, later working at Stewarts and Lloyds steel works and its safety issues, shifts and union activity. Recounts story of unjust theft accusation at work, and decision to leave for Leeton with mates. Describes getting work at Yanco government experimental farm and Letona cannery in 1950, and the social life at boarding houses, dances and Murrimbidgee River. Explains how he met friends Jim Hodges and Dallas Schafer, and how they all met their partners before they left to work at the Whyalla shipyards. Tells of his wedding to Kate in 1952, meeting her family and converting to Catholicism. Talks about decision to shift to New Zealand, the sea voyage to Wellington and living with Jim and Marie Hodges in Oamaru. Recalls adjustment to New Zealand was helped by having the two other families from Leeton around. Details building and wharf jobs from 1957 to 1975 and getting his first house through State Advances loan. Remembers looking after their children when wife Kate went back to Australia for her father's funeral. Recalls it was 19 years before he went back to Australia for first time in 1976, and how they didn't survive there. Reflects on whether New Zealand or Australia was home, keeping his Australian passport, and how his family have different passports. Talks about the growth of Australian drug scene and mafia and being at Griffith hotel shortly before anti drug campaigner Donald McKay was murdered. Recalls impact of closure of the Oamaru wharf in 1976. Talks of his work at Oamaru woollen mills from 1979 to 1986 when he and Kate stopped work to nurse their son Dallas before his death from bowel cancer. Reflects on adventure of emigration, the support of friends and differences between Australia and New Zealand. Contrasts New Zealand attitudes to sport and politics with that in Australia. Comments that they will be buried in New Zealand where their son is. Interviewer(s) - Ruth Low Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001613 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 5 days. 8.53 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7451, OHDL-001614. Photograph of Don Potter taken at the time of his interview in 2011. Scanned B&W photographs of: Don and Kate Potter and others leaving on the Wanganella (1957); Don and Kate Potter with children and friends, first Christmas in Oamaru. Scanned colour photographs of: Don and Kate Potter and others on first visit back to Australia (1975); workmates at Yanco Experimental Farm, Leeton, NSW (undated) Search dates: 1932 - 2011

Date: 1972

From: Gant, Phyllis, 1922-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6634-053

Description: Article by Gant from the `Waikato times' on her visit to Australia and letter from `The Australian' declining to publish it Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1878

By: Sheridan, John Beal, active 1878

Reference: MS-1935

Description: Publication - Published by Scrymgeour & Sons, Adelaide, 1878 Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Fox, P B; The unsuccessful colonist; his fortunes, misfortunes, observations, and opinions as related by himself Quantity: 1 volume(s) (148 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed with holograph and ms annotations (18cm, ¼ worn black calf, phasebox) Provenance: Note on original catalogue card in A H Turnbull's hand reads: This work was issued in five or six parts & this copy has been bound from them, but no wrappers have been preserved. It contains many ms notes by James Sadler and John Beal Sheridan, a South Australian lawyer, whose notarial seal is stamped on p 3 with his signature. The book was never finished, I believe; all that was printed ending on p 148.

Date: 1854-1862

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2632

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca 1880]

By: Rigby, T, active 1880

Reference: MS-1820

Description: Account of a tour to Australia and return to England; dates and name of ship not given Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (66 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (23cm, grey boards)

Date: [ca 1990-1998]

From: Gidley, James, fl 1910-1999 : Memoirs

Reference: MS-Papers-6302-1

Description: Comprises further memoirs of Gidley, `My second down-under spell, 1950-1960' which begins with his flight from England to Australia and thence to the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) where he stayed with his brother and his wife; he then describes going to Australia and working outside Sydney in a mill, working in Brisbane and South Australia, and his return to work at various jobs in these places. He writes of his relationships, especially with women, religion, social concerns and problems and personal matters, such as contracting hepatitis and malaria. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1834-1861, nd

From: Tinline, John, 1821-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0026-2

Description: Papers include letters re Pacific matters, life in Australia; certificate of land sale; reminiscence by a Pakeha Maori re Makutu; note on the movements of barque "Amelia Thompson"; etc Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1 Jan 1850-31 Dec 1851

By: Swainson, Henry Gabriel, 1830-1892; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: MS-2096

Description: Journal kept by Swainson on board HMS `Havannah' and HMS `Bramble' on voyages between England, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Contains detailed descriptions of social life in Sydney, Wellington, Hobart and Auckland, and of the Society Islands, the Isle of Pines, Fiji and Rio de Janeiro. Includes a photograph of Swainson and an engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire. A typed inventory of outline of events is included. Accompanying material - Photograph of Henry Gabriel Swainson; transcript of portion of journal, Oct-Nov 1850, when Swainson was at the Isle of Pines; outline of events noted in the journal, by Lynda Scarth; note by Dorothy Swainson re provenance of journal; engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire Source of title - Supplied title: title on front endpaper `Private journal/Commencing Jan 1st 1850/Ending December 31st 1851/Henry Swainson/Her Majesty's Ship "Havannah"/ Sydney 1850-' Quantity: 1 volume(s) (186 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (23 cm, ½ red calf, marbled boards in red buckram hinged lid box) Transfers: Two pencil sketches (1) Hutt River (1849) signed W & HS and (2) of HMS `Havannah' at Darling Point, Port Jackson, removed to Drawings and Prints. Enlarged copy of photograph of Swainson in PS 284152.. Processing information: Digitisation details - Inserts located at the end of the digital files

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm); Twitter Inc (Firm); Facebook (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0026156

Description: Cartoon depicts Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott commenting that only one woman in Cabinet is needed to make sandwiches and clean toilets. His male cabinet standing in the background make supportive remarks. Accompanying note from the cartoonist states "Australian PM Tony Abbott's Cabinet of 18 males and one female will please sexist pigs, but most will see it for what it is - a sign of Australia's slide into a new age of ignorance". Cartoon was also self published on Martin Doyle's cartoon Facebook site (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Martin-Doyle/607865899238901?ref=hl) and Twitter (Twitter@Mart_cartoons) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0030136

Description: Depicts a man monitoring a wall of screens showing Australians and New Zealanders in daily life as captured on surveillance cameras. Each screen has a speech bubble of a comment made by NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione, and echoed by Australian government figures, in response to the 16 hour siege of hostages in a Lindt cafe in Sydney by mentally ill Muslim cleric Sheik Man Haron Monis. Cartoon suggests "our way of life" includes the electronic monitoring of citizens in Australia and New Zealand as part of the Five Eyes network. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0028089

Description: Cartoon shows two panels. In the top panel text reads, 'The 10th happiest OECD nation on earth... NZ'. The bottom panel reads, '... but guess who's no 1?' A smiley face wearing a cork hat has been placed over the N in NZ, making it instead spell OZ. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1841-1843

By: Arnold, Edward, 1823-

Reference: Micro-MS-0138

Description: Accounts of voyages on the Will Watch and the Rajah, and a letter from Isabella McCallum from Darlinghurst, Sydney, to Edward Arnold in Geelong, dated 14 November 1843, giving news of old mutual friends and events since Arnold's departure from Sydney. The letters contain candid comments on places and people visited, and his attitude to the treatment of convicts and Maori. They also provide brief descriptions of employment prospects, cost and living conditions in Sydney and Auckland. Arnold accompanied Bishop Selwyn as a servant on the voyage to Australia, ariving in 1842; they then sailed to Waimate in New Zealand, where Arnold remained for about a year. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (56 frames).

Date: 1840-1956

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Australian Joint Copying Project

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-3059-3060

Description: Papers of Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, who served on the China Station of the Royal Navy, and of Captain Henry George Hamilton, who served in the Royal Navy and retired to Australia, and of Sir Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton, who after serving in the Royal Navy became the first member of the post-war Commonwealth Naval Board in Australia. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1997