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Identifying and evaluating regulation reforms : Productivity Commission research report.

Impacts and benefits of COAG reforms : reporting framework / Australian Government, Productivity Commission.

Impacts of COAG reforms : business regulation and VET / Productivity Commission.

Records of Land & Environment Planning Consultancy, 1986-2006, including photographs, reports and associated documents, projects, assessments,  proposals, strategy briefs, notes and drafts of conference papers, environmental studies, local responses, correspondence, research material, draft notes for published papers and presentations, maps and publicity material. Material relates to local government areas including Hornsby, Ku-ring-gai, Singleton, Cessnock Kiama, Camden Wagga Wagga, Armidale, Byron, Walcha, Dungog, Baulkham Hills, and Shellharbour. Covers the period from the commencement of the consultancy in 1993 to 2006 together with earlier consultancy proposals, 1986-87.

BOX 1 - 1986 to 1996 – Land & Environment Planning
Green folder includes consultancy proposals 1986 to 1987 (before LEP commenced), including correspondence and arrangements with Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) in Berlin in 2000, correspondence relating to professional indemnity insurance, and first LEP consultancy proposal in April 1994. Includes CVs for other people interested in working collaboratively.
Consultancy proposals 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, & 1998.
Documents of most interest are as follows:
Name Description Notes
Bellbird South Coal Project Completion of socio-economic assessment for EIS for Janet Epps & Assoc 1988
Beecroft Bush subdivision Consultancy done for local community group and preparation of information for Commission of Inquiry 1988
Fauna Corridors and Vegetation Links in Hornsby Shire Original documents and working documents 1993, 1994
Update of Fauna Corridors and Vegetation Links for Hornsby Council following M2 construction. 1995 Review of impacts following construction. Includes photographs of construction of M2 Motorway at Beecroft.
Wollombi Vegetation and Habitat Plan Project undertaken for Cessnock City Council 1996. Includes background information and drafts.
Preparation of Plan of Management for Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council at Beacon Hill Work for Outline Planning Consultants, engaged 1997
Flora and Fauna Assessment for proposed Tourist Development Lomas Lane Nulkaba, near Cessnock 1997
Report on Bushfires in Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Report to Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Trust 1997
Review of Feldmast Coal Project at Cullen Bullen, near Lithgow Made submission for Russ Dickens (landowner) 1998, involving correspondence with government agencies. Includes Feldmast coal project EIS

BOX 2 – 1999 to 2002 – Land & Environment Planning
Documents and files associated with the production of the Biodiversity Planning Guide for NSW Local Government, published by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in 2000. Includes drafts, publicity materials, consultation, correspondence and miscellaneous related information. This document was awarded the National Planning Ministers Award by the Royal Australian Planning Institute in 2002, and also received a number of other commendations.
Also includes materials related to the preparation of the Planning Framework for Natural Ecosystems for the ACT and NSW Southern Tablelands, including draft reports contractual information, etc 2001 to 2002.

BOX 3 – 2000 to 2001 – Land & Environment Planning
Various documents and reports associated with a range of projects, including Newcastle Biodiversity Strategy for Newcastle City Council, work on development approval for Australian EcoForest project near Stroud, expert evidence for court case at Bryan Avenue, Normanhurst for Hornsby Council (Abbot Tout), planning seminar for capacity building for environmental impact assessment of projects, green corridors strategy for Upper Parramatta River Catchment Trust, ecological review for electricity lines at Glenmore Park for Integral Energy, and other miscellaneous projects.
Includes work for Singleton Council in relation to development application refusal of development application DA 85/2000 for proposed service station on Bridgman Road, Singleton. Includes photographs of site and Singleton floodplain.
Also includes Fauna Impact Statement review work for Hornsby Shire Council in 1993 that later led to the Hornsby Council Flora and Fauna Corridors Study.

BOX 4 – 2002 to 2003 – Land & Environment Planning
Various documents and reports associated with a range of projects, including preparation of local environmental plan provisions for Great Lakes Council, preparation of plan of management for Prospect Reservoir for the Sydney Catchment Authority, Tomago Plan of Management for East Coast Flora Survey, weed
workshops for Tocal Agricultural College, Biodiversity Planning Pilot Project for Wagga Wagga City Council, Planning Guide to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 for World Wide Fund for Nature – training workshops and program, Camden Council development referral system and training related to threatened species, Cessnock City Council training workshop and field excursions in relation to biodiversity assessment in development applications, review of development application for North Arm Cove Progress Association at Port Stephens, preparation of state of the environment reporting guidelines for Kosciuszko National Park for the NSW Department of Planning, plus miscellaneous proposals.
Also includes A3 document Penrith City Remnant Native Vegetation Survey Inventory Maps 1995.

BOX 5 Land & Environment Planning, 2003-2004
Various documents and reports associated with work for Molino Stewart Consultants, including Scenic World at Katoomba, Kerma Crescent Clarence development proposal. Also environmental review within Cessnock LGA, Pearl Beach development with Lindsay Johnson architect, miscellaneous consulting projects, Tocal College poster, Cessnock biodiversity review proposal and consultancy, Dungog Council Pilchers Mountain POM proposal, Cessnock Council work on Bow Wow Creek biodiversity planning, Ecological Consultants Association of NSW information, consultancy for Dungog Council to review development application for proposed tourist facility at Upper Allyn, preparation of Dungog Development Control plan for biodiversity, Local Government and Shires Association training modules relating to the Biodiversity Planning Guide for NSW Local Government, Byron Shire Council peer review of Biodiversity Strategy, work for Baulkham Hills Shire Council on rural LEP review and miscellaneous proposals.
Documents of most interest are as follows:
Name Description Notes
Tocal College, Paterson – land use poster Includes Tocal Code of Land Use Practice, Tocal Nature Study, photographs from 2004, etc Produced poster with Joh Waller
Bow Wow Creek Gorge Maps and documentation on scientific significance
Ecological Consultants Association of NSW Newsletters and information
Dungog Council DCP Development application documents
Healthy Rivers Commission Workshop and reports reviewed
Dungog Council Biodiversity DCP
Biodiversity Planning
Guide for NSW Local Government Training modules prepared in 2003

BOX 6 Land & Environment Planning, 2004
EPBC Act Planning Guide – Workshops for Local Government and Natural Resource Management Committees. Organised for WWF Australia in 2004. Workshop overheads, presentation notes, lists of attendees and evaluation forms.
Planning NSW/Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources – Preparation of Urban Salinity Planning Guidelines 2002 – 2004. Includes workshop notes for Central West NSW and Blacktown, paper to Thredbo PIA conference, and case study projects for Wagga, Maitland, Camden and Forbes. Resulted in preparation of draft Urban Salinity Planning Guide (Dec 2003), model LEP provisions for urban salinity, a draft Section 117 direction, published information brochure on Planning for Urban Salinity, and extensive local government engagement.
Documents of most interest are as follows:
Name Description Notes
Draft Urban Salinity Planning Guide (23 Dec 2003) This never proceeded within DIPNR Potential for extending to this to a land and water planning guide in future

BOX 7 Land & Environment Planning, 2005-2006
Documents and reports associated with work on the New England Strategic Alliance Land Use Strategy for four New England Councils in 2005/6 and work for a number of other clients including preparation of development application advisory documents and forms Upper Hunter Shire Council, peer review of a biodiversity strategy for Gosford City Council, and advice to Julia and Brian Leaver on a proposed multiple occupancy north of Branxton.
Documents of most interest are as follows:
Name Description Notes
New England Strategic Alliance notes and background information Relates to Armidale-Dumaresq, Uralla, Walcha and Guyra local government areas
Proposals for a planning document template for small rural councils
Martin Fallding planning reform submission
Various briefs for the preparation of local government strategies

BOX 8 Conference & published papers
Background materials, notes and drafts of conference papers from 1998 to 2014. Includes many related documents:
Name Description Notes
Local responses to global warming in the Upper Hunter region Research, background material and notes Presentation to 1998 Australian Global Warming Conference
Paper “What makes a good natural resource management plan?” Research and background material Published in Ecological Management and Restoration journal in 2000
Land Use Tax Planning Includes presentation notes, newspaper clippings overview of presentation, copy of paper from Australian Conservation Foundation in 2000 titled Environmental Tax Reform – Using the tax system to protect the environment and promote employment (Tela Paper 4), and also brochure on the EcoForest project. Presentation to Environment Institute of Australia conference December 2000
Notes on design criteria for low impact development and Ecologically Sustainable Development Includes notes, references, draft papers and comment from a reviewer. Also draft SEPP for ESD prepared by Green Games Watch in 2000.
Predicted impacts on energy and greenhouse gases in Hunter Valley coal mining environmental impact statements Notes, drafts and correspondence relating to paper Published in Australian Journal of Environmental Management 1999
How to plan for biodiversity conservation Background notes, draft papers and reviewer comments for material published in Australian Planner in 2004
Paper with Isabelle Connolly 'Biocertification of local environmental plans - promise and reality' Background notes and references, includes draft standard LEP provisions for biocertification prepared in 2005 Environmental and Planning Law Journal 26 (128 - 151), March 2009
Short report on a framework for managing and monitoring bush regeneration programs: a case study from Lake Macquarie NSW Background material, drafts. Also includes correspondence relating to publication of review in Australian Journal of Environmental Management of ‘Reducing the impacts on wildlife’. Published in Environmental Management and Restoration in 2011
Paper presentation on Coal mine rehabilitation in the Hunter Valley – a land use and policy perspective Notes and program Best Practice Rehabilitation of Mined Lands Conference 2011
Biodiversity offsets practice and promise Notes and documents Planning Institute of Australia NSW State conference 2011
Paper on valuing biodiversity in planning Notes and program Planning Institute of Australia 2013 National Congress
Biodiversity offsets practice and promise Notes and background materials Ecological Consultants Association conference 2013. Led to publication of paper in Environmental Planning and Law Journal in 2014
Biodiversity offsets practice and promise References and background material
Biodiversity offsets practice and promise Notes and draft papers leading to published paper Environmental Planning and Law Journal in 2014
Effective biodiversity offsets – improving planning, valuation and monitoring practice (with Bob Dupont and Stephen Bell) Conference notes and background Mine Rehabilitation Conference 2014

BOX 9 Conference presentations – Martin Fallding, Land & Environment Planning and other work projects, 2000-2014
Presentation notes for about 25 conferences and workshops from 2000 to 2014, including overhead transparencies. All in separate envelopes for each conference.
Various documents and reports associated with work on the Kiama Local Environmental Plan, also Myambat land management poster update, Maitland Council work, SEWPAC ecological corridor project in 2012 with Ecological Australia.

Land & Environment Planning (LEP) records, 1986-2006

A collection of papers relating to the literary careers of Ruth Park and D'Arcy Niland. Among Ruth Park's papers are documents relating to her books including  The Road Under the Sea, Swords and Crowns and Rings, Playing Beattie Bow, The Muddleheaded Wombat series, The Big Brass Key, The Harp in the South and Callie's family. D'Arcy Niland's papers include notebooks, short stories and journalism.


BOX 1
Notebooks, including those from Boronia Street, Redfern, 1939-1943 and pocket notebooks re: Les Darcy, 1930s-1960s / D’Arcy Niland

Printed books, being a Sunday missal and a ninepenny dictionary / D’Arcy Niland

BOX 2
Registers of manuscripts (4), including title, when and where submitted for publication, result (accepted or rejected), comment and price paid, 1942-1966 / D’Arcy Niland

Register of i.a. Royalties re English and Foreign editions, 1955-1961 / D’Arcy Niland

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Callie’s Family (edited typescript) /Ruth Park

The Road Under the Sea 
Includes corrected typescript, notes, newscuttings of research articles and letter received from Ure Smith Pty Ltd, 2 Mar. 1962 re manuscript, 1959-1962 / Ruth Park

Quiet Holiday
Include outline of story; 1st, 2nd and final versions, being corrected typescript and carbon typescripts; printed copy from School Magazine, Vol. 42, No. 8, Oct. 1957-Part 3, pp. 248-253; enlarged version, being corrected typescript, for Hodder and letters received from NSW Dept. of Education, 1952-1953, 1957; with a radio play, The New Year at Billyboona, being carbon typescript; and synopsis of The Mystery of Acorn Hill, 1952-1957 / Ruth Park

Merchant Campbell [Robert Campbell] 
Includes working notes, chronology, corrected and edited typescripts and correspondence with Anne Bower Ingram, Collins, 1974-1975 / Ruth Park

BOX 3
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Gigantic Balloon
Includes corrected typescript and correspondence with Anne Bower Ingram (Collins), 1974 / Ruth Park

When the Wind Changes
Includes corrected typescript / Ruth Park

The Big Brass Key
Edited typescript and letter received from Jane Ferrier, Hodder & Stoughton Australia, 14 Dec. 1983 / Ruth Park

Roger Bandy (This was published but never appeared in bookshops)
Includes corrected and final typescript versions; original artwork; correspondence, 1975-1976, with Tess van Sommers, Editorial Consultant, and Rigby Ltd; with note by Ruth Park, 12 Oct. 1993, 1970-1976 / Ruth Park

Come Danger, Come Darkness
Edited typescript and letter received from Margaret D. Hamilton, Hodder & Stoughton Australia, 16 Sep. 1985

BOX 4
Swords and Crowns and Rings (1977)

Working notes, chronology

Copies of agreement between Ruth Park and Nicholas Beauman assigning rights to Swords, 1984

Film script of `Cushie & Jack' by Peter Smalley (typescript) based on the novel (option lapsed) / Ruth Park

Publisher’s shorter edited copy, typescript, carbon typescript, 812 pp. / Ruth Park

BOX 5
The Jackaman Archives [One Man’s Kingdom], being television script for 13 episodes. Includes working notes, drafts and final version, One Man’s Kingdom, being typescript and correspondence, 1962-1969, with i.e. Australian Broadcasting Commission, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and Henri Safran, 1962-1973 / Ruth Park, D’Arcy Niland

No Decision (winner of the Associated Television Ltd Play Competition, 1961)
Includes corrected typescript, reviews, and correspondence with Curtis Brown Ltd., London, 1961-1962 / Ruth Park, D’Arcy Niland

Correspondence, being mainly letters received, re Harp in the South (1948) (winner of the 1946 Sydney Morning Herald novel competition). Correspondents include Jon Cleary, Eleanor Dark, Beatrice Davis, Jean Devanny and Tom Hungerford, 1945-1953 / Ruth Park, D’Arcy Niland

Newscuttings mainly re SMH Competition, and of The Harp in the South, and Sunday Herald posters advertising serialisation of Poor Man’s Orange, 1946-1950s / Ruth Park

Newscuttings of articles and reviews re Ruth Park and her work, with b&w photograph of book display of Ruth Park’s Pink Flannel (1955), 1946-1977 / Ruth Park

BOX 6
How I survived the Scott Ordeal by Prof. Griffith Taylor as told to D’Arcy Niland. Cavalier Magazine, Sep. 1961, pp. 27-31, 70-76, with typescript note by Ruth Park [1993] / D'Arcy Niland

Aerial Pioneers
Printed. Walkabout, 1 May 1951, pp. 33-37 / D'Arcy Niland

Champion Axemen (Typescript) / D'Arcy Niland

Men of the Shed, The Reveller’s Homecoming and Christmas Eve at Whissonsett, being signed typescript verse / D'Arcy Niland

Shearing Shed Days: Aventures in the Outback (III), King Among the Jumbuck Barbers (Shearing Shed Days) being typescripts / D'Arcy Niland

Blue Tongues and Greasiers and The Jumbucks Are … Number 2’, being rough typescripts on reverse of letters received, 1943-1944, from i.e. ABC, Angus & Robertson and Australia National Journal / D'Arcy Niland

The Maker of Cities by Rupene Ruapapere [pseud].
Includes notes, typescript and printed copy from Argosy magazine with a radio feature, A Maker of Cities’ (carbon typescript), with note by Ruth Park, Oct. 1993 / D'Arcy Niland

The Shiralee – Ballads
Includes fragments  and draft of letter from Darcy Niland to Beatrice Davis, 20 Feb. 1955, with note by Ruth Park, Oct. 1993 / Darcy Niland, Ruth Park

Papers re South Australian Film Corportion’s television rights to The Shirilee
Includes correspondence, 1987-1988, with Phillips Fox, Solicitors and Curtis Brown, London and letters received by Darcy Niland from Angus and Robertson Ltd, London , 1959, 1964 / Ruth Park, D'Arcy Niland

The Tasmania We Love (1987) by Ruth Park and Cedric Emanuel
Includes notes, worksheets, maps, index roughs, photocopied typescript and correspondence with Cedric Emanuel, 1985-1987 / Ruth Park

BOX 7
3 Muddleheaded/Wombat Books/complete files:
The Muddlehearted Wombat Stays at Home. Includes notes, rough drafts, corrected and edited typescripts

Wombat Picturebooks Nos 1-3:
1. The Muddleheaded Wombat and The Bush Band
Carbon typescript and copy of letter from Ruth Park to Angus & Roberson Ltd., 27 July 1972
3. The Muddleheaded Wombat and Clean-Up Day
Carbon typescripts (2) (finished 2.7.74)

The Muddleheaded Wombat and the Invention
Carbon typescript and Wombat in the Dry Weather, being corrected typescript of earlier version

The Muddleheaded Wombat is Very Bad (carbon typescript)

Playing Beatie Bow (1980)
Includes notes, family tree of characters, corrected and edited typescripts and letters received / Ruth Park

Correspondence re Beatie Bow tour of The Rocks, Sydney, 1985 / Ruth Park

Papers re: dispute over payment from South Australian Film Corporation, 1985-1986 / Ruth Park

BOX 8
Short Stories
Include `The Last Assignment’, and `A Cargo for Topacki’ with notes by Ruth Park, 1978, 1993, 1930-1960s / Darcy Niland

Short Stories 2, being  further stories, with notes by Ruth Park, 1978, 1993 / Darcy Niland

Reviews of D’Arcy Niland’s stories and mentions in newspapers, with programme for `Harp in the South’ a play in 3 Acts’ by Ruth Park and Leslie Rees at The Independent Theatre, North Sydney, 1949, 1944-1966 / Darcy Niland

The Penguin Best Stories of D’Arcy Niland (1987)
Includes edited photocopied typescript / Ruth Park

BOX 9
The Harp in the South, being television scripts for six episodes, dramatised by Eleanor Witcombe, with revisions by Ruth Park and George Whaley (photocopied typescript) / Ruth Park

BOX 10
Papers re television production of `The Harp in the South’  by Anthony Buckley Films Pty Ltd. Includes script amendments, shooting schedule, memoranda to cast & crew and `News Bulletin No. 2 : A report to our Investor, March 1986’ / Ruth Park

Further papers re television production of `The Harp in the South’, inscribed `File Commenced 30.10.83’, with notes by Ruth Park / 1983-1986 / Ruth Park

Scripts, including cast offs of `Harp in the South’ (photocopied typescript) / Ruth Park

BOX 11
Ghosts Along The Quay (Famous old clipper ships in Sydney Harbour) by Cyril Hume and D’Arcy Niland, being a radio documentary
Corrected typescript and carbon typescript D'Arcy Niland

Walkabout folder:
Correspondence, 1965-1966, with Brian McArdle, Editor. 
Walkabout; notebook and photographs re Frank Hurley and boxing / Darcy Niland

Boy With A Dream
Carbon typescript and printed copy from A.M., Jan. 1953

Ruby Robert and the Rubber Ball
MS., corrected typescript and carbon typescript, and printed copy from A.M., 12 Jan. 1954

The Great Hackensmidt
Corrected typescript, carbon typescript. Published as `The Russian Lion’ in A.M., 31 Mar. 1953

Old Battlers Lived Longer
Typescript, carbon typescript and printed copy from A.M., 21 July 1953

A Nice Boxing Day All Round
Includes notes, drafts of earlier versions ` A Very Nice Xmas All Round’ and `An Unusual Xmas Round’, and letter received from Walkabout, 11 Mar. 1966

The Small World of Jamesy Rice
Notes, drafts and printed copy from Walkabout, Dec. 1966

Geraldine by Ruth Park and D'Arcy Niland (shortlisted ATV competition) (typescript)

Printed Books (10)
The Adventures of the Muddle-Headed Wombat (A&R Commemorative edition, 1986), and Swedish, German, Norwegian and Finnish editions

BOX 12
Reviews and publicity material mainly, Call me When The Cross Turns Over (1957), Make Your Stories Sell (1955), Be Your Own Editor (1959), The Big Smoke (1959), Pairs & Loners (1966), The Apprentices (1965) and Dead Men Running (1969) / Darcy Niland

Reviews of The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Tree Tops (1965) and The Muddle-Headed Wombat at School (1966) / Ruth Park

The Drums Go Bang (1956)
Includes notes, corrected typescript and carbon typescript of previously titled `A Welcome To Wits’ End’; correspondence, 1954-1955, with Woman’s Choice; and corrected proof copy / Ruth Park, D'Arcy Niland

Ruth Park and D'Arcy Niland further literary papers, 1930s-1993

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