The Solomon Islands achieved full independence in July 1978. Elections are held every four years by universal suffrage for a 50-seat unicameral national parliament.

Election manifestoes of the following political parties have been microfilmed:
1980 general election: National Democratic Party, Solomon Islands United Party.
1984 general election: Solomon Islands United Party, Solomon Islands People's Alliance Party.
1989 general election: Solomon Islands Labour Party, Solomon Islands Nationalists’ Front for Progress, Solomon Islands People's Alliance Party, Solomon Islands United Party.
1993 general election: Solomon Islands Group for National Unity and Reconciliation, People's Alliance Party, Solomon Islands United Party, Solomon Islands Labour Party, National Action Party (NAPSI).
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The Christian Leaders’ Training College campus at Banz consists of 412 acres situated about 12 kilometres from Banz in the upper Wahgi Valley. The College was established in 1964 with support of the Unevangelized Fields Mission and other evangelical Protestant missions and churches in PNG. It has close links with the Bible College of Victoria and Laidlaw College in Auckland. The College offers courses to a Bachelor of Theology degree, a Diploma of Theology, a Diploma of Missions, and training in urban ministry. There are about 125 residential students at the CLTC and another 4,000 extension studies students. The Melanesian Journal of Theology is published from the CLTC.

99 theses submitted for the degree of Bachelor of Theology, Christian Leaders’ Training College, and other papers by staff and students of the College.
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Dr Mike Bourke is an Adjunct Senior Fellow in the School of Culture, History & Language in the College of Asia and the pacific at the ANU. He has been engaged in research and development activity in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu since 1970. His career highlights include: Agronomist, PNG Department of Primary Industry (1970-77); Principal Research Horticulturalist, PNG Department of Primary Industry (1978-83); Postgraduate Student, ANU (1983-88); Visiting Fellow (and later Adjunct Senior Fellow), Department of Human Geography, ANU (1989-2008); Self-employed Consultant (1988-2008).

Highlands Agricultural Experiment Satation, Aiyura, Crop Altitudinal Limits Data giving actual figures for altitudinal range of crops in PNG gathered by Mike Bourke in the period 1979 to 1984, arranged in files as follows:
Location abbreviations
Altitude limits – staples / energy crops
Altitude limits – traditional vegetables
Altitude limits – introduced vegetables
Altitude limits – fruit
Altitude limits – nuts
Altitude limits – herbs, spices and narcotics
Altitude limits – non-food crops

Dr Bourke published the mean data in his paper, “Altitudinal limits of 230 economic crop species in Papua New Guinea”, in S.G. Haberle, J. Stevenson and M. Prebble (eds), Altered Ecologies: Fire, Climate and Human Influence on Terrestrial Landscapes. Terra Australia 32 (2010), ANU E-Press, The Australian National University, Canberra; pp.473-512. http://epress.anu.edu.au/terra_australis/ta32/pdf/ch27.pdf

Dr Weymouth, a Baptist Minister from Adelaide, is a former Principal of the Christain Leaders’ Training College and continues to actively support the College.

R.M. Wemouth, The Gogodala Society in Papua and the Unevangelized Fields Mission 1890-1977, thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Social Sciences, the Flinders University of South Australia, June 1978; Ts., 402pp., illus.

Wallis Island, situated about 440 km north-east of Vanua Levu Fiji is part of the French Pacific Territory of Wallis and Futuna. Its people, approximately 10000 in 1981, speak a Polynesian language closely related to Tongan. Many have migrated to New Caledonia. Malamanei was originally bimonthly, later monthly

No. 1 (13 March 1978) - no. 35 (1 May 1981)

John Kolia was born in Sydney in 1931 as John Alexander Collier. He attended Sydney Grammar School and completed his secondary education in England in 1951. Having enrolled in a medical course at the University of London, he returned to Australia and commenced work in PNG as a medical assistant for the Australasian Petroleum Company which was involved in oil exploration in the Gulf and Western Districts of Papua. After visiting London again in 1958, Kolia returned to Sydney where he completed teacher training. He took up a teaching position in New Britain in mid 1960, and in 1964 joined the Catholic Mission at Vanimo as a teacher. In 1966 he returned to Port Moresby. While teaching at Bavaroko, Kolia enrolled in the University of PNG, completing his BA (Hons) in 1971. He was awarded a PhD in 1975 for his research among the Balawaia people in the Rigo sub-district where he had been living in Tauruba village since 1972. At that time he changed his name from Collier to the phonetic form, Kolia. From 1971 Kolia had been employed at the UPNG as a research assistant, but by 1973 he was mostly occupied in editing the journal Oral History. When the Institute of PNG Studies was established in 1974, it took over production of Oral History and Kolia joined its staff. Kolia became a naturalised citizen of newly independent PNG in 1976. His History of the Balawaia was published in 1977, followed by a formidable body of literary work: eight novels, several short stories, plays and long poems, and press articles on anthropological topics. He was also an editor of the IPNGS journal, Bikmaus, and edited a collection of poems, Melanesian Thoughts and Words. He worked as a Project and publications officer at the PNG Institute of Technology from 1989 until 1992.
(Mainly from Lyn Baer, In Between: Cultural Ambivalence in the Novels of John Kolia, 1982.)

CONTENTS: Nancy Lutton’s correspondence with and about Kolia, 1979-1992;
Press cuttings, journal articles and reviews, 1978-1993;
Unpublished verse;
Theatre programmes and poster, 1981;
Photograph and other documents;
Thesis: Lyn Baer, In Between: Cultural Ambivalence in the Novels of John Kolia, 1982;
Duplicated typescripts by John Kolia, 1976-1993;
Other publications, by, edited by, or about Kolia, 1979-1981.
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Mr Keith Woodward, OBE, arrived in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) as an Oxford graduate in 1953 to begin his career with the British Residency. He was subsequently promoted through the New Hebrides British Service and by the 1970s he had been appointed Secretary for Political Affairs coincided with rapid constitutional change in Vanuatu as the territory moved towards independence. The manuscript written by Mr Woodward documents, with compelling detail, these constitutional changes. Up until the 1950s the New Hebrides had no representative form of government. This began to change in 1957 with the formation of an Advisory Council and Mr Woodward provides an insightful overview into its composition and functions. However, most of Mr Woodward's manuscript concentrates on the constitutional changes that occurred in response to growing ni-Vanuatu (indigenous) demands for independence in the early to mid 1970s. These include the formation of a Representative Assembly comprised of a majority of elected members in 1975 to succeed the Advisory Council, the Vanuaaku Pati's (VP) (main independence political party) boycott of the 1977 elections and the subsequent proclamation of a Peoples Provisional Government (PPG), and the political movements as they established their respective constitutional positions regarding the transistion to national independence. Mr Woodwards analysis of this crucial period in Vanuatu political and constitutional history provides an important framework in which to contextualise the last two turbulent years of condominium rule, independence in 1980 and the political climate of the early 1980s.

<I>Historical Summary of Constitutional Advance in the New Hebrides, 1954 - 1977</I>; 77 typescript pages.

Transcripts of daily radio news bulletins broadcast by Radio New Hebrides (Radio Vanuatu, after independence), 28 Sep 1978–26 Nov 1980 (gaps),
Ts., roneo, c.800pp.
Reel 1

28 Sep 1978–29 May 1979
30 May 1979–1 Oct 1979
2 Oct 1979–24 Dec 1979
26 Dec 1979–31 Mar 1980
1 Apr 1980–1 Jul 1980
Reel 2
2 Jul 1980–26 Aug 1980
27 Aug 1980–26 Nov 1980