However, returning postgraduates are also welcome to attend and 'get oriented'. Please book early to ensure a place. The Monash Research Graduate School, Research Services will be holding an introduction for new research students. The presentation will include information on conditions and benefits of scholarships, candidature variations, annual progress reports, an overview of the MRGS and an introduction to the Monash Research Graduate Centre and its facilities. The Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the Australian National University is Australia's premier collection of business and trade union records and also includes the national AIDS archive.
Total records amount to thirteen kilometres of shelving.
Until two years ago it was funded by the Research School of Social Sciences. It was then that the director of the RSSS announced that the School could no longer sustain the Archive and that it would close in three months. Following a major campaign a salvage agreement was reached in which the Archive was given three years to become self-funding. It is clear that this objective will not be secured and that the Archive may be forced to close in early 2001. Reading Groups Sally Newman is interested in starting a reading group looking at gender, sexuality and history.