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AU PMB MS 1006
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- 1870s - 1970s (Creation)
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13 reels; 35mm microfilm
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Robert Stewart Parker was born on 19 February 1915 in Artarmon, New South Wales. He received his Masters in Economics from the University of Sydney. In 1938 he was appointed Lecturer in Public Administration and Secretary to the Council of the Canberra University College. From 1939 to 1945 he was Lecturer in Public Administration at Victoria University College, Wellington, before returning to Canberra University College as Lecturer in Political Science. From 1949-1954 Parker was Head of the School of Public Administration at Victoria University, New Zealand. Parker began his association with the Australian National University as a Research Fellow in the Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences from 19 October 1947 to 24 February 1949, then Reader (Public Administration) from 1 March 1954. He was Professor and Head of ANU's Political Science program in the Research School of Social Sciences from 1962 until his retirement in 1978. He was a member of the 1957 Committee of Inquiry into Commonwealth Public Service Recruitment (Boyer Committee), the Interim Council of the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea (1962-69) and the Papua New Guinea Public Services Arbitration Tribunal (1972-73). Parker died on 31 July 2002.
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Background notes for the 'Chapters' reproduced in PMB 1005, for a book tentatively entitled 'Comparative colonial administration', by R.S. Parker and Norman Mellor. See also PMB 1007.
Manuscript and typed notes, published and semi-published material. File headings are those used by Professor Parker, with notes in brackets supplied by PMB. A file heading sheet precedes each file. Within each file, the order of items is that used by Professor Parker. No detailed inventory of file contents is available.
Reel 1: Introduction, R.S. Parker; Ch. 1 - Introduction files; Ch. 2(a) - Motives for enquiry
Reel 2: Ch. 2(b) - Indigenous political structures; Ch. 2(c) - Population
Reel 3: Ch. 2(d) - Economic resources; Ch. 2(e) - German and British policies
Reel 4: Ch. 3(a) - Military to 1950 (file empty); Ch. 3(b) - Government to 1950; Ch. 3(c) - Economic to 1950; Ch. 3(d)i - Education to 1950; Ch. 3(d)ii - Health to 1950; Ch. 3(d)iii - Welfare to 1950; Ch. 4(a) - Military to 1960; Ch. 4(b) - Governance to 1960
Reel 5: Ch. 4(c) - Economic to 1960; Ch. 4(d)i - Education to 1960; Ch. 4(d)ii - Health to 1960; Ch. 5(a) - Military to 1960s; Ch. 5(b) Governance to 1960; Ch.5 - Governance 1960s A-C; Ch. 5 - Governance 1960s D 1-7
Reel 6: Ch. 5 - Governance 1960s D 8
Reel 7: Ch. 5 - Governance 1960s E and F; Ch. 5(4)(c) - Economics in 1960s
Reel 8: Ch. 5(d)i - Education in 1960s; Ch. 5(d)ii - Health in 1960s
Reel 9: Ch. 6(a) - Military in 1970s; Defence; Ch. 6D - Governance in 1970s
Reel 10: Ch. 6D iii - Geographically uniform; Ch. 6D v - Administrative Executive Council; Ch.6D vi - Legislative; parties; Ch.6D vii - Legal institutions; Ch. 6D viii - Administration; Ch. 6 - Governance 1970s: E local government
Reel 12: Ch. 6(c) - Economics 1970s
Reel 13: Ch. 6(d)i - Education in 1970s; Ch. 6(d)ii - Health in 1970s
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Available for reference - but no part of the contents may be reproduced or used in quotation without the written permission of Professor Parker. Please see his Introduction, Reel 1.
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(1989) R.S. Parker, 54 Munro Street, Curtin, ACT (to be deposited in the National Library of Australia at a later date)
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Access this title at PMB Member Libraries or by contacting the Bureau directly: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/accessing.php
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ms1006