Series 15:
Prime Minister, 1901-1923 (bulk 1903-1910)
Subseries 15.5:
Portfolios, 1901-1923 (bulk 1903-1910)
Correspondence, notes, a notebook, memoranda, reports, receipts, memorabilia, programs, pamphlets, press clippings and other printed material. This material relates to the most significant portfolios of Deakin's time as Prime Minister, including External Affairs, Trade and Customs, The Treasury, Home Affairs, Attorney-General, Postmaster-General and Defence. There are papers concerning immigration, administration of the territories, Australia's High Commission in London, trade, fiscal policy, the location of the federal capital, the High Court, defence policy, military infrastructure and other matters. Among the correspondents are Sir Edmund Barton, Thomas Bavin, Octavius Beale, Sir Thomas Bent, Joseph Carruthers, Austin Chapman, Andrew Inglis Clark, Sir George S. Clarke, Timothy Coghlan, R.M. Collins, Joseph Cook, Captain William Creswell, Lord Crewe, Henry Dobson, Andrew Fisher, Sir Sandford Fleming, Sir John Forrest, Colonel J.F.G. Foxton, Moreton Frewen, Sir Samuel Griffith, Beatrice Grimshaw, Justice H.B. Higgins, W.M. Hughes, Atlee Hunt, William H. Irvine, Walter James, John Jenkins, Arthur Jose, J.H. Keating, William Kidston, Sir George Le Hunte, Sir William Lyne, Sir William MacGregor, Kenneth Mackay, Arthur Morgan, G. Read Murphy, Richard E. O'Connor, George Pearce, Thomas Playford, Sir John Quick, Ernest Rason, Sir George Reid, Richard Seddon, M. Staniforth Smith, Baldwin Spencer, David Syme, Sir Josiah Symon, Lord Tennyson, J. Unsworth, Charles Wade, Sir Joseph Ward, J.C. Watson, Sir Samuel Way, R.E. Williams and B.R. Wise. This subseries contains Items 15/2081 - 15/4296.
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| Subseries 15.5.1
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External Affairs, 1903-1910 Correspondence, notes, a notebook, memoranda, pamphlets, printed material and other documents. Following Barton's practice, Deakin took the additional portfolio of External Affairs during his first two terms as Prime Minister. However, papers on only a limited area of Australia's 'external relations' are gathered here. They concern immigration and Australia's relations with countries outside the British Empire, Papua New Guinea, the appointment of a High Commissioner in London, British interest in the New Hebrides and the administration of the Northern Territory.
Correspondence referring to imperial matters can be found in Series 1, Series 11, Subseries 15.1, Subseries 15.3 and Series 16. Imperial defence is dealt with in Subseries 15.5.7 and more generally in Series 1.
This subseries contains Items 15/2081 - 15/2567.
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| Subseries 15.5.2
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Trade and Customs, 1903-1911 Correspondence, memoranda, press clippings and other printed material. The correspondence includes letters to Deakin on tariffs, trade with New Zealand, trademarks, manufacturing industries, the sugar industry, British preference, trade with Canada, the shipment of fruit from Tasmania, the export of possum skins and several trade bills. The principal correspondents are Octavius Beale, Timothy Coghlan, R.M. Collins, Sir John Forrest, Moreton Frewen, William H. Irvine, J.H. Keating, Sir William Lyne, D.H. Ross, Sir John Seddon, David Syme, Lady Tennyson and Sir Joseph Ward.
There are also papers on the Royal Commission on the Tariff, the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Secret Drugs, reciprocal trade between Australia and New Zealand, tariffs in general, 'New Protection' and trade discrimination against the Cape of Good Hope. Minor subjects include duties on imports from Britain, reciprocal trade with Canada, the 1909 petition of employees in the agricultural implements trades and the Agricultural Implement Makers' Union.
This subseries contains Items 15/2568 - 15/2933a.
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| Subseries 15.5.3
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The Treasury, 1904-1910 Correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, press clippings and other printed material relating to the Treasury during Deakin's terms as Prime Minister. The papers concern such issues as States' debts, the financial agreement and the 1910 referendum, ministerial salaries, Australian loans in Britain and loan conversion, world monetary standards, the note issue and silver coinage. They also touch on the cost of the transcontinental railway, token coins, the Australian public debt, government finances and the Banking and Note Acts. The correspondents include Joseph Carruthers, Timothy Coghlan, R.M. Collins, Sir John Forrest, Moreton Frewen, H.A. Grainger, Robert Harper, William H. Irvine, William Kidston, John Murray, Thomas Playford and Charles Wade.
This subseries contains Items 15/2934 - 15/3290.
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| Subseries 15.5.4
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Home Affairs, 1901-1912 Correspondence, press clippings and other papers. The correspondence includes letters on the transcontinental railway and other railways, statistics, the Public Service and meteorology. Thomas Bavin, W.G. Duffield, Sir John Forrest and George H. Knibbs are among the correspondents.
This subseries contains Items 15/3291 - 15/3340.
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| Subseries 15.5.5
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Attorney-General, 1903-1923 Correspondence, notes, memoranda, receipts, press clippings and other printed material. There are papers on the 1904 Acts Interpretation Bill, appeals arising from the 1909 Industries Preservation Act, preferential voting, Commonwealth treaties, the States' taxing powers relating to federal employees and the Deakin and Lyne v. Webb case relating to the same issue.
Further papers relating to the High Court concern such issues as appointments, arbitration, appeals to the Privy Council, temporary judges and the Privy Council's decision on the 1907 Webb v. Outrim case. There is also a pamphlet featuring an official photograph of the High Court judges, taken in 1906. The principal correspondents are Sir Edmund Barton, Thomas Bavin, Herbert Bryant, Andrew Inglis Clark, George B. Edwards, Sir Samuel Griffith, Justice H.B. Higgins, Richard E. O'Connor, Sir John Quick and Sir Samuel Way.
Correspondence dealing with Sir Josiah Symon's dispute with the High Court Judges, 1904-1905, can be found in Subseries 16.1.
This subseries contains Items 15/3341 - 15/3476.
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Postmaster-General, 1904-1910 Correspondence concerning such matters as mail contracts, personnel problems, cable services and the Marconi system, the Postal Congress in Rome in 1906, the penny post and Empire communications. The principal correspondents are Austin Chapman, Timothy Coghlan, R.M. Collins, Henry Dobson, Sir Sandford Fleming, Sir John Forrest, William Kidston, George Swinburne and David Syme.
This subseries contains Items 15/3477 - 15/3514.
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| Subseries 15.5.7
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Defence, 1903-1913 Correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, programs, memorabilia, press clippings and other papers dealing with defence, both naval and military. Letters to Deakin refer to general matters of strategy, Australia's changing relationship with the Royal Navy, the moves towards a Naval Agreement, the deliberations of the Committee of Imperial Defence, the 1909 Imperial Conference on Naval and Military Defence, the new defence scheme incorporating a voluntary training course, cases concerning military personnel, the interchange of naval officers between Australia and England and a graving dock for Melbourne.
Correspondents include Dr Richard Arthur, Colonel William T. Bridges, Sir George S. Clarke, Sir John Cockburn, R.M. Collins, W.J. Colquhoun, Thomas Courtney, Captain William Creswell, Lord Crewe, Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes, W. Graham Greene, Richard Haldane, Colonel John C. Hoad, W.M. Hughes, Sir Edward Hutton, Arthur Jose, J.W. McCay, Reginald McKenna, George Pearce, S.A. Pethebridge, Thomas Playford, Robert Scott, J.C. Watson and R.E. Williams.
Other papers include copies of cables sent by Colonel J.F.G. Foxton when in London in 1909 for discussions on naval proposals and financial matters, papers relating to the visit of the American Fleet in 1908 and a file on the visit to Australia of Lord Kitchener in 1910.
This subseries contains Items 15/3515 - 15/4296.
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