Brian Mullins collection of National Civic Council records
Collection
The papers include minutes, reports, speech transcripts, correspondence and ephemera relating to the work of the NCC, in particular Vince Gair and the split of the Labor Party in Queensland during the 1950s and the resulting Democratic Labor Party. The collection also contains papers focused on the NCC campaigns against the influence of communism in Queensland including files containing personal information on people about their possible association with the Communist Party of Australia and the Socialist Party of Australia. Other items collected include published material created by political parties and lobby groups of the era. A series of subject files compiled by Brian Mullins containing information on NCC's involvement in the Mt Isa Mine strikes and the Vietnam War Moratorium Campaign are also included.
"The NCC evolved in 1957 from the Catholic Social Studies Movement (also known simply as "The Movement") which was founded in the early 1940s by prominent Catholic layman B.A. Santamaria. The Movement worked closely with the Industrial Groups, which were formed within the Australian Labor Party to combat the influence and infiltration of the Communist Party in trade unions. The Movement, and later the NCC, had close links with the original Democratic Labor Party." -- from the National Civic Council Wikipedia page, viewed 19/08/2022.
In copyright.