Cultural Artefact: History Department J.C.U. John Busst Papers
Summary
John Busst, 1910-1971, artist, conservationist, ecologist, and activist for the preservation of the natural environment, particularly the Barrier Reef. Busst served as Queensland Councillor on the Australian Conservation Foundation, as chairman of the Committee for the Preservation of Tropical Rainforests, as President of the Tully-Innisfail branch of the Wildlife Preservation Society and President of the Innisfail branch of the Queensland Littoral Society; this involvement is reflected in the collection.
BOX1
Littoral Society correspondence, [1966-1970], 1 folder.
'Barrier Reef correspondence, 1968', 1 folder.
'Rain Forest. Correspondence, papers, map', 1 folder.
'Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland'. Papers re. Spring School, held Binna Burra, 1968, 1 packet.
Collection of correspondence, newspaper and serial extracts, papers, re. conservation issues in general, 2 folders.
'Native Protection in Europe', incl. typescript paper, pp. 32, 1 folder.
'Newspaper cuttings re. Tropical Rain Forest Preservation Committee', 1 folder.
'Newsletters, Wildlife Preservation Society', 1965-1972.
Copies of various serials, e.g. Australian Natural History, The Living Earth, Trend, Wildlife in Australia, ca.1960-1970.
Collection of government publications, incl. Hansard, Acts of Parliament etc., several vols.
Box 2: Miscellaneous Items
'Australian Conservation Foundation', incl. correspondence, reports, newsletters, policy statements and handbooks, research surveys, symposium papers, 1 folder, 1 bundle.
Newsletters and serials:
Conservation News, Australian Natural History, Beach Conservation, Queensland Littoral Society Newsletter, 1 folder.
Miscellaneous collection, reports, brochures, conservation publications, 1 loose bundle.
BOX 3
Correspondence file, incl. letters Judith Busst to John Busst 1969, September 1966-July 1975, 1 folder.
Correspondence 1967-1968, various papers and publications, relating to conservation issues, incl. a submission to the Australian Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution, by Professor C. Burdon-Jones, University College of Townsville, July 1969, 1 large envelope.
'Oil drilling on the Barrier Reef, A.P.E.A. submission to Royal Commission', incl. submissions, reports, tables, maps, 1 folder.
'Evidence taken before the Senate Select Committee on Off-Shore Petroleum Resources', uncorrected proof, soft bound, roneoed typescript, pp. 4431-4770, 7, 21 March, 1, 18 April 1969, 1 vol.
Australian Conservation Foundation symposium papers, director's report, newsletter, handbook, 1969-1970, 1 folder.
'Press cuttings, Warden's Court', extracts from Innisfail Advocate', 1965, 1 large envelope.
Newspaper extracts, oil drilling on the Barrier Reef and other conservation issues, 1969, incl. some maps, 1 folder.
Lumb R.D., The Law of the Sea and Australian Off-Shore Areas, Brisbane, 1966, pp. 86, limited circ.
Parliamentary publications, incl. Queensland Mining Act of 1968, The Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act of 1967, Hansard 1967-1969, 1 large envelope.
BOX 4
Correspondence, minutes of meetings of Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland July-August 1969, address by Professor C. Burdon-Jones, Apex Club convention Cairns, 14th September [19?], on conservation and the Great Barrier Reef, pp. 12; also newspaper and serial extracts, ca.1967-1971, 1 folder.
'Barrier Reef, correspondence, reports, A.C.F. newsletters, newspaper extracts, ca.1969-1971, 1 folder.
Correspondence re. Littoral Society, incl. miscellaneous papers, submissions, newspaper extracts, March 1968-June 1969, 1 folder.
'Prime Minister', letters and telegrams between John Busst and John Gorton, Tony Eggleton, Ainsley Gotto and Gough Whitlam, August 1968-May 1970, 1 folder.
'Barrier Reef correspondence', September 1968-September 1970, 1 folder.
'Legal, Personal and Confidential', correspondence file, February-March 1970, 1 folder.
Minutes of meetings, Wildlife Preservation Society, February 1971, President's report (Innisfail Branch), February 1970, draft submission to Senate Select Committee on off-shore petroleum resources, March 1969, research papers and serial extracts relating to environmental and conservation issues, 1 folder.
Newspaper extracts, re. Great Barrier Reef, 1 large envelope.
'Maps for identification and conservation of habitat types in the wet tropical lowlands of north Queensland, Nos. 1-20', 1 folder.
'Len Webb's maps (copy)', 1 large envelope.
Held by Professor B.J. Dalton, Department of History. Restricted access, (total 4 boxes).