One carton of papers and audio recordings sent to Professor Hank Nelson by Professor George H. Gadbois of the University of Kentucky in October 2010; transferred to the PMB from Professor Nelson’s room in the Coombs Building in August 2011.

Papers by Professor Gadbois, Elections in Papua New Guinea: a search for a framework of analysis (1977), and The Representative Roles and Accountability of Legislators in Papua New Guinea (1978) draw on his research in PNG (PMB 1372/108 & 110). The data for this research was collected during the second half of 1974. The subjects were 73 backbenchers of the PNG House of Assembly. They were interviewed using a standard set of questions set out in the Interview Schedule for Legislators, in two versions (PMB 1372/102). The interviews were conducted in English, Tok Pisin and Motu, and recorded on cassettes (PMB 1372/Cas01-Cas99); the written (typescript) versions of the interviews are all in English (PMB 1372/1-100). Most of the interviews were conducted by students of the University of Papua New Guinea, and these interviewers are frequently identified by name on the written versions of the interviews. A Memorandum from Professor Gadbois to an (unspecified) Research Committee provides a rationale for the form of the study (PMB 1272/103). The recorded material does not include material for all those interviewed. In some cases the interviewee is represented on more than one cassette. A few of the cassettes seem to be unrelated to the interviews: e.g. Chatterton (Radio) and Somare (Newsmakers) but no doubt are relevant to PNG politics. One tape is simply labelled “?” (PMB 1372/Cas 101-104).

Transcripts of interviews with backbenchers in the PNG House of Assemby (1974).
Code book interview schedule and research committee paper.
Lists of the Members of the House of Assembly (1964-1976).
Research files and publications.
See Finding aids for details.