Proud past, bright future? - Senator John Faulkner: Annual Archives Lecture

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23 September 2011Senator John Faulkner gives the annual Archives lecture reflecting on the history of the labour movement in Australia. This talk was recorded at The Australian National University on 15 September 2011. His talk also opened the 'labour history and its people' conference hosted by the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History in association with the National Centre for Biography.

Senator John Faulkner has been a Senator for New South Wales since 1989 and served as a minister in the Keating and Rudd Labor governments and as Minister for Defence in the Gillard government till September last year. He was the parliamentary representative on the National Archives Advisory Council from 1996 to 2008 and was reappointed in September 2010. Senator Faulkner is an advocate for government accountability through Freedom of Information and Archives legislation and has authored publications on representative government and the history of the Australian Labor Party.

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