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Series details for: A12573
Series number
A12573
Title
Fraser Ministries - Chronological Record of Cabinet and Cabinet Committee Meetings
Accumulation dates
Nov 1975 - Nov 1975
Contents dates
Nov 1975 - Oct 1979
Items in this series on RecordSearch
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Agency/person recording
  • Nov 1975 - Nov 1975
    CA 1472, Cabinet Office
Agency/person controlling
Quantity and location
  • 0.18 metres held in ACT
System of arrangement/ control
Item: single number; Entries: chronological (monthly)
Range of control symbols
Item: 1; Entries November 1975 to October 1979
Predominant physical format
PAPER FILES AND DOCUMENTS
Series note

Summary heading

  Descriptive Note

Function and purpose

This series consists of a single item – a brown Visidex folder, with a yellow spine, labelled ‘Chronological record of Cabinet and Committee Meetings from 22 December 1975 to 25 October 1979’. It contains a record of what cabinet and committee meetings occurred each month.  There is a new sheet for each month (sometimes extending to two or three pages) showing, Date of Meeting, Type of Meeting (whether a Cabinet, Ministry or Committee meeting)  and the duration of the meeting.   In the case of a Committee meeting the name of the committee is specified.

For example the first entry on the sheet headed ‘February 1976’ shows:

         Date: ‘ 2 Feb [1976]’        Meeting: ‘Economic Committee’         Duration of Meeting: ‘9.30 am to 1.25 pm’

Though the label on the folder states the contents begin from 22 December 1975 in fact the first sheet is for the month of November 1975 (First Fraser ministry.)   This sheet shows there were two meetings during this ministry  on 12 and 19th November (the latter being in two session.)  These meetings are shown in this Record as ‘Cabinet’ meetings.  In another context they are recorded as ‘Ministry’ meetings and the decisions from this meetings have an ‘M’ suffix.   Since the whole ministry comprised the cabinet in the First Fraser ministry, there is no practical difference.

The last sheet is for the month of November 1979 and the last entry on that sheet relates to a meeting on 25 October 1979

It is not known what record of meetings was kept after this point.

Related legislation

 

Using the series

  This series consists of a single item containing an accumulation of monthly records of occurrence of cabinet, ministerial and committee meetings.  These records are in chronological order by month

Language of material

 

Physical characteristics

A brown Visidex folder, with a yellow spine, labelled ‘Chronological record of Cabinet and Committee Meetings from 22 December 1975 to 25 October 1979’ containing typed sheets headed ‘Monthly Chronological Record of Cabinet and Committee Meetings’ and the month.  Entires for each meeting are in chronological order down the page.

System of arrangement and control

  This series consists of a single item , originally without formal control.. A single numeric control has been imposed by National Archives – that is, the folder  is now controlled as item 1.  The entries in the folder are monthly sheets on which there are chronological entries for each meeting during that month.

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Finding aids

 

Access conditions

 

Series history

 

Provenance

  This series ( a single item) was created in the Cabinet Office (CA 1472) in November 1975.  Entries were made in this item between November 1975 and October 1979

Immediate source of acquisition

 

Custodial history

  This series was transferred to the custody of the National Archives by the Cabinet Office in May 2004

Quantity in agency custody

 

Disposal history

 

Publication note

 

Additional information

 

End notes

 

Sources

 

Previous series
  •  
    A5928, Whitlam Ministries - Chronological Record of Cabinet and Cabinet Committee Meetings
Related series
  •  
    A12575, Fraser Ministries - Folders of Cabinet and Cabinet Committee Meetings Attendance Sheets
  •  
    A8498, Fraser Government - Correspondence files (Draft Cabinet Documents series) annual single number system with 'DCD' prefix
  • Nov 1975 - Nov 1975
    A12935, First and Second Fraser Ministries - Record of Meetings (of Ministry, Cabinet and Cabinet Standing Committees) showing Ministers present and Decisions taken, arranged by type of meeting
Visibility & availability indicator
  • 73 . All items from the series are on RecordSearch
Date registered
09 Jan 2003

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