This series consists of sets of Cabinet Submissions contained in brown visidex folders. The set held by Australian Archives (Set 1) has white spine labels bearing the title: 'Spare Set - Eighth Menzies Ministry - Cabinet Submissions', together with the volume number and range of submission numbers.

Each folder contains submissions for consideration by Cabinet or Cabinet Committees, arranged in numerical order, with the related decision(s), and in some cases, notes on submissions and/or covering minutes for submissions withdrawn or dealt with outside Cabinet.

This series is an artificial series, having been copied in 1983-1985 by the Cabinet Office from the original papers kept in CRS A4940, Cabinet files, 'C' single number series, 1958-1967. To aid retrievability and accessibility, the series contents date range in this instance indicates the dates of the original papers that were copied from CRS A4940 and not the actual age of the copies themselves
(1983-1985).

From 1958-1967, the Cabinet Office discontinued its practice of maintaining folders of submissions and associated documents. Instead, all papers pertaining to a submission and its consideration by Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee were placed on a file in the contemporary file series (CRS A4940). Later it was decided that the gap in submission and associated decision sets caused by this temporary practice should be filled, and so, relevant papers were copied to form series of submissions and associated decisions which date between 1958 and 1967.

Although there are several registers of submissions, there is no subject index of submissions. A subject index was created for the 'C' files, but cannot be used as a point of entry to the submissions or decisions because it refers only to the appropriate 'C' file number, and not to the submission or decision number. It is possible to identify relevant submissions through the function they represent, by consulting CRS A4937 and CRS A5829 - registers of submissions arranged by the Minister sponsoring (these registers also give the relevant decision number).

All submissions in this series have been entered separately onto the item level database, ANGAM II, and each entry provides a cross reference to the associated decision(s) as at July 1996.
Quantity in agency custody
Set 2: 39 volumes held by CA 1472, Cabinet Office