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4. Biography and Personal Papers
The National Archives of Australia operates a personal records service to preserve the records of Governors-General, Prime Ministers, Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries, the Opposition front bench, judges of Federal courts and senior persons associated with the Commonwealth Government. These records include material directly related to their official roles.
Access to these records is authorised by an ‘Instrument of Deposit’, an official document giving the National Archives the authority to administer, store and preserve records, to publish information about the records in the Archives’ finding aids and to make records available to the public. The National Archives encourages depositors to allow access to non-Commonwealth records 30 years after the date of the records’ creation to bring them under the same conditions as Commonwealth records, although depositors may authorise access to individual researchers before this date. Records already in the public domain, such as broadcast speeches or interviews, are available for access.
In this section of the guide the series are listed in alphabetical order of the record creators. Biographical records are also included in series created by the Film Division (later Film Australia) and the Australian Broadcasting Commission (later Corporation). These are listed at the end of this section.
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George Henry Romans, 1881-1958
George Henry Romans was born in New Zealand in 1881. He became a reporter and joined the Morning Herald in Perth in 1902. In 1908 he joined the staff of the West Australian and was Acting Chief of Staff on that newspaper when he left to join the Western Australian Hansard Division as a parliamentary reporter. In 1911 he produced the Handbook of Western Australia which covered the history resources and capabilities of the State. In 1914 Romans joined Commonwealth Hansard and became Principal Parliamentary Reporter of that department in 1940.
‘KNOW YOUR PARLIAMENT’
(BOUND FOLDER CONTAINING SEVEN LONG-PLAYING GRAMOPHONE RECORDINGS OF A SERIES OF TALKS GIVEN BY GEORGE HENRY ROMANS), 1948
M1590
Recorded by: 1948 George Henry Romans (CP 199)
Quantity: 0.54 metres (Canberra); 0.09 metres (Sydney)
This series consists of a bound folder containing seven long-playing gramophone recordings. The recordings consist of 13 short talks prepared and narrated by George Romans for the Macquarie Broadcasting Service. The series of talks was entitled ‘Know Your Parliament’, with each episode addressing an aspect of Parliament or government.
