Summary heading

Prime Minister's Papers Project.

Function and purpose

The series comprises general administrative files maintained in the Minister' Office during the period when William McMahon was Minister for External (later Foreign) Affairs. Most of the files relate to general business within the Minister's Office and with the Department, Foreign Affairs Committee, Parliament and the Liberal Party. Other files relate to Parliamentary conferences and delegations, use of VIP aircraft and ministerial cars, the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship and McMahon's overseas visits in 1970.

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Physical characteristics

System of arrangement and control

The original single number system, used for most of the files by Ministerial staff, was extended to the remainder of the series by National Archives in August 2001.

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Finding aids

Access conditions

Subject to the Archives Act 1983.

Series history

The series registration was completed in August 2001 as part of the Prime Ministers' Papers Project.

Provenance

Department of External (later Foreign) Affairs, Minister's Office.

Immediate source of acquisition

The records in this series were transferred to archival custody by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 19 July 2001.

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Quantity in agency custody

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