John Miller Tregenza (1931-1999)
Papers
MSS 0049
Series 12: Public issues (80 cm)
Mainly extracted from spring folder, files as arranged under headings by Tregenza
Aborigines
- Aboriginal Education of SA Inc. Secretary’s report 1969-70
Adelaide’s creeks
- Newspaper clipping re Torrens pollution 1973; correspondence re changing creek names to Light’s original names 1972
Amnesty International
- Handouts; ‘The Candle’ issue 2; ‘Background paper on Indonesian political prisoners’ (Victorian section) 1975
Art Gallery drinking fountain
- correspondence and notes 1997-98
Bluff, environment generally
- Incl. leaflets, photocopies, typescript ‘Geological monuments in South Australia part II’ / ed. S, Toteff and E.M. McBriar …February 1979; typescript ‘Project officer’s report on the conservation value of land known as the Polhner estate situated in the vicinity of Mt Kitchener’ / Michael A. Picard for Nature Conservation Society of SA 1978; typescript ‘Quarrying in the Adelaide Hills Face Zone’ / by H.W. Jones by direction of the Commissioner of Highways, 1968; typescript ‘The national parks and Wildlife Act, 1972 – ten years on’ / Robert J. Fowler (speech at 10-year celebration); newspaper clippings; correspondence etc; correspondence and documentation re Kings Head development 1996; papers re The Bluff car park ca 1980; correspondence, newspaper clippings & ephemera re Wilpena Pound development 1988
Cemeteries
- Newspaper clippings on reuse of Adelaide cemeteries 1987
Cycling
- Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, leaflets, reports and articles re campaign for cycling paths and amenities for bicycles in Adelaide and suburbs, including carriage of bikes on trains. Also issues of ‘Pedal’ July 1978 and January 1979, no. 17. Includes Tregenza’s typescript paper ‘Cycling in Adelaide’ delivered to a seminar on ‘Planning for the future of Adelaide’ 14/10/1972 (1964-1984.) Also draft map of route for National Trust’s Heritage Fun Cycle 1984. 1 spring folder (3 cm)
Drugs (including tobacco)
- Leaflets, newspaper clippings, correspondence mainly concerned with anti-smoking campaign and cigarette advertising 1977-88
Education
- Mainly newspaper articles re child abuse, education and children of working mothers 1969-86; also ‘Address by the Minister of Education (Hon. Hugh Hudson) to the SA Chapter of the Australian College of Education, April 29, 1971’; typescript ‘Home environment and school study – list of educational outcomes used … ‘1968-9
Hallet Cove area
- Newspaper clippings ca 1974
Hand guns
- Newspaper clippings 1981-2
John Howard Society
- Minutes and notices of meetings, clippings and articles on prisons and correctional reform, correspondence 1967-75
North Adelaide
- Programme for seminar ‘City living with special reference to North Adelaide’ arranged by the Dept of Adult Education at the University of Adelaide 19-21 March 1971, with handout of articles/extracts
Nuclear energy
- Newspaper clippings from Advertiser 1977 on Windscale Enquiry in Britain and 1983 on Caldicotts’ campaign for nuclear disarmament
Parklands
- ‘The Parklands: newsletter of the Adelaide parklands preservation Association Inc’ vol. 1 issue 1 (August 1988) and associated flyers; newspaper clippings 1969, 1988 and undated; photographs and plan; correspondence etc re Wine Centre development 1999. Papers and maps re Metropolitan Open Space System and other parklands documents 1987 (3 folders)
Race relations
- South Australian Campaign Against Racism Newsletter vol. 1 no. 1 (October 1971); 1968 newspaper article on Asian migration to Australia; article ‘The significance of recent developments in Asia for the economic future of Australia’ / J.G. Crawford, ‘The Australian Journal of Science’ v. 24 no. 4 (1961)
Sound pollution (incl. aircraft)
- 1989 correspondence re Adelaide Airport curfew an associated newspaper clippings; West Beach Airport Relocation and Urban Consolidation: preliminary papers … / Thebarton Environmental Health Committee, August 1989
Transport systems – MAPS, NEAPTRE, Torrens Valley
- Newspaper clippings mainly on proposed light rail transit system from Tea Tree Gully to the city 1970-79; Tregenza’s submission to the Environmental Impact Statement on North East Area Light Rail Line 1978; Tregenza’s letters to the Advertiser re light rail system (1978) and MATS plan for North Adelaide Connector (1970)
University of Adelaide rubbish bins
- 1987 personal plan of action to improve use of rubbish bins within the University and correspondence 1988-89
Voluntary euthanasia
- Personal letter of support for the Voluntary Euthanasia Bill 1988, newsletters of the SA Voluntary Euthanasia Society 1995-98, newspaper clipping 1995 etc
Water rates: future supplies
- Newspaper clippings and correspondence 1979
Newspaper clippings book on public issues, University and political affairs, film etc 1982-87
Papers relating to the Campaign(s) for Peace in Vietnam, with some papers on the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign. 1964-1972 (with a few additions to 1998). 6v. [Two sequences, largely chronological, as arranged by Dr Tregenza
- v.1-3 consist of CPV Committee minutes, leaflets and correspondence and related newspaper cuttings
- v. 4-6 are general Vietnam war/anti-conscription pamphlets and leaflets, correspondence, speeches by John Tregenza and others and newspaper cuttings, but also include some CPV Committee papers.
