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Last updated 11 November 2010

  1. Australians, Events and Places, pp.175, 180.
  2. Australians, Events and Places, pp.169, 175-84.
  3. ATO Story, The 1950s; Profile of the ATO officers; Timeline; Interviews with Denis Cortese, Beverley Francis, Alan Green, Margaret Green, Richard Green, Brian Power, Craig Wynn-Jones.
  4. Tax Form, April 1958, ATO Story, Collection of statements, notes, quotes and yarns; Informational Materials 1910-19 to 1960-69; Interview with Alan Green, Margaret Green, Richard Green.
  5. Tax Form, April 1958.
  6. Grealy; Interview with Denis Cortese.
  7. ATO Story, The 1950s; Collection of statements, notes, quotes and yarns; Information Materials 1910-19 to 1960-69; Interview with Lionel Jones.
  8. Good collections of these magazines are held in ATO sites in Melbourne and Perth, both magazines were titled Tax Topics. A magazine called Tax Form was published in Sydney but a good collection does not appear to have survived. Some copies of the Federated Clerks Union (ATO Branch) publications are held in the Butlin Archive at the Australian National University.
  9. ATO Newsletter, November 1989; ATO Story, Official Souvenir Program, 5th Biennial Taxation offices Interstate Sporting Carnival; Tax annual 1959, Annual Report of Queensland Taxation Sports and Social Association, pp.57-61.
  10. ATO Story, Collection of statements, notes, quotes and yarns; Profile of the ATO officers; Interviews with Bill Boynton, Michael Monaghan.
  11. Australians, Events and Places, pp.163, 167-169, 174-178, 181.
  12. Australians, Events and Places, pp.169, 175, 177-181.
  13. Executive Council Minute 11, c.1958, Item Canavan DL, CRS A6899, NAA; Annual report 1952-53, p.12; Annual report 1953, p.11; Annual report 1957-58, p.15; Annual report 1958-59, p.16; Australians, Events and Places, p.174.
  14. Annual report 1951-52, pp.69-70; Annual report 1953, pp.7,10; Annual report 1955, p.15; Annual report 1954-55, p.10; Annual report 1958-59, pp.11-12.
  15. Annual report 1952-53, p.7; Annual report 1955-56, pp.9, 12, 53; Annual report 1957-58, p.10; Annual report 1958-59, pp.10-11; Annual report 1959-60, p.10.
  16. Interview with Trevor Boucher, 2 July 2009.
  17. Annual report 1951-52, pp.4, 6; Annual report 1952-53, pp.9, 26; Annual report 1955-56, p.7; Annual report 1956-57, pp.14-18; Annual report 1958-59, pp.12, 28; Annual report 1959-60, p.10.
  18. Annual report 1957-58, p.29.
  19. Annual report 1951-52, p.7; Annual report 1952-53, pp.6, 10-11; Annual report 1953, p.8; Annual report 1959-60, p.14.
  20. Annual report 1951-52, pp.7, 9; Annual report 1952-53, pp.8-9, 12; Annual report 1955-56, p.9; Annual report 1957-58, p.11; Annual report 1958-59, p.13; Australians, Events and Places, p.167; Interviews with Jan Brady, Denis Cortese.
  21. ATO Story, The 1950s; Tax People, February 1992; Collection of statements, notes, quotes and yarns.
  22. Tax People, February 1992.
  23. Annual report 1952-53, pp.6, 8; Annual report 1953, p.8; Annual report 1958-59, p.15; File minute, 11 March 1952, Treasury Circular, 19 August 1952, File minute, 22 September 1952, Item M323/1/1 (2), CRS A7073, NAA.
  24. Memorandum, 7 July 1952, M323/1/1 (2), CRS A7073, NAA; Annual report 1958-59, p.8.
  25. Annual report 1957-58, p.8; Annual report 1958-59, pp.8-9; Annual report 1959-60, p.19.
  26. Annual report 1953, p.11; Annual report 1954-55, p.12; Annual report 1957-58, pp.14-15; Annual report 1958-59, p.16.
  27. Deputy Commissioners Conference minutes, March 1959, Item J264/1/15, CRS A7073, NAA.
  28. Annual report 1952-53, pp.8-9; Annual report 1956-57, pp.30-31; Deputy Commissioners Conference minutes, March 1959, Item J264/1/15, CRS A7073, NAA.
  29. ATO Story, Information Materials 1910-19 to 1960-69.
  30. Annual report 1956-57, p.15; Annual report 1957-58, p.15; ATO Story, Information Materials 1910-19 to 1960-69.
  31. Interview with Bruce Jones, 24 September 2009.
  32. Annual report 1958-59, p.8; Interview with Denis Cortese.
  33. Annual report 1957-58, p.8; Annual report 1958-59, p.8.
  34. Memorandum, 29 October 1953, Item J264/1/13, Deputy Commissioners Conference minutes, March 1959, Item J264/1/15, CRS A7073, NAA; Annual report 1951-52, p.3; Annual report 1952-53, p.5; Interview with Peter Simpson.
  35. Interviews with Bill O'Reilly, Bill Boynton.
  36. Memorandum, 29 October 1953, November 1953, Item J264/1/13, Deputy Commissioners Conference minutes, March 1959, Item J264/1/15, CRS A7073, NAA; Annual report 1951-52, p.2.
  37. ATO Story, Profile of the ATO officers.
  38. Deputy Commissioners Conference minutes, 1950, Item J264/1/11, Deputy Commissioners Conference minutes, 1959, Item J264/1/15, CRS A7073, NAA.
  39. Deputy Commissioners Conference minutes, 1959, Item J264/1/15, CRS A7073, NAA.
  40. Deputy Commissioners Conference minutes, 1959, Item J264/1/15, CRS A7073, NAA.
  41. Memorandum, 29 October 1953, J264/1/13, Deputy Commissioners Conference minutes, 1959, Item J264/1/15, CRS A7073, NAA; Annual report 1957-58, p.15.
  42. Departmental report, 21 November 1950, Departmental Committee Report, 31 July 1951, Item J97/102 (1), Report of Commonwealth Committee on Taxation, 2 October 1950, Departmental Committee Report, c. December 1951, Minutes of meeting of Cabinet Committee on Provisional Tax, 12 May 1952, Item J97/102 (2), Minutes, Conference of Deputy Commissioners 1950, Item J264/1/11, CRS A7073, NAA.
  43. Memoranda, 4 September 1951, 14 September 1951, Item J10/74, CRS A7073, NAA; Caiden, p.333; ATO Story, Profile of the ATO officers.
  44. The conferences were held in 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955 and 1959. There were apparently plans for a conference in Perth in 1957 but the WA Deputy Commissioner strongly resisted the proposal and it did not go ahead. Minutes of Conference of Deputy Commissioners, 1950, Item J264/1/11, Memorandum, 29 October 1953, Item J264/1/13, Memoranda, 3 December 1957, 25 February 1959, Points for Commissioner, March 1959, Item J264/1/15, CRS A7073, NAA; Annual report 1951-52, pp.3-4; Annual report 1955, p.9; ATO Story, ATO History; Chronology.
  45. Annual report 1950, pp.7-8; Annual report 1953, pp.7, 11; Annual report 1954-55, pp.7-8, 11; Annual report 1956-57, p.8.
  46. Annual report 1954-55, p.7; Annual report 1955-56, p.10; Annual report 1956-57, pp.11-12, 30; Annual report 1957-58, p.12; Annual report 1958-59, pp.13-14.
  47. Notes on agenda, Deputy Commissioners Conference, 1950, Item J264/1/11, CRS A7073, NAA; Cutting, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 July 1947; ATO Story, Commissioners of the Australian Taxation Office (part 2).
  48. File minutes, 18 January 1951, 24 September 1951, Memoranda, 3 October 1959, 8 October 1951, Item J10/72 (2), CRS A7073, NAA; Interview with Alan Green, Margaret Green, Richard Green.
  49. Memorandum 25 January 1952, Procedure, c. March 1952, Memorandum, 17 June 1952, Item J10/72 (2), CRS A7073, NAA.
  50. For examples, see Memoranda, 24 April 1952, 11 March 1953, 23 March 1953, File minute, 28 April 1953, Memorandum, 7 May 1953, Item J10/72 (2), CRS A7073, NAA.
  51. Report of Committee of Departmental Offices, 23 October 1952, Item J10/77 (1), CRS A7073, NAA.
  52. Memorandum, 31 December 1953, File notes, c. December 1953, Item J10/77 (1), File minute, 18 May 1953, Item J10/77 (2), CRS A7073, NAA; Annual report 1955, pp.7-9.
  53. Report of Departmental Committee, November 1953, Memorandum, 16 December 1953, Minutes of Deputy Commissioner's Conference, 1953, Item J10/77 (1), Memoranda, 16 July 1956, 20 July 1956, 26 July 1956, 31 July 1956, Item J10/77 (2), CRS A7073, NAA.
  54. Memoranda, 14 January 1955, 13 September 1956, 14 September 1956, 27 September 1956, 12 October 1956, Item J10/77 (2), CRS A7073, NAA.
  55. The process descriptions in memoranda in endnote 258 were written as Deputy Commissioners described their branch processes and explained why they should not be changed. Also, Memorandum, 16 July 1957, Item J10/11 (2), CRS A7073, NAA.
  56. Australians, Events and Places, pp.178-182.

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