Dr Phil Day was a tier 1 advocate of regional development, as explained in a separate post. His personal papers contained a selection of press releases, letters to editors and speeches to conferences on the subject of regional or balanced development. This compilation includes:

  • “Regionalisation”, 13 August 1974
  • “Dynamics of Regional Development” and “Regionalism Resurgent?, papers  to a National Conference on Regional Development, 30 August 1974
  • press releases on the North Queensland New State Party, 12 July 1977 and 28 July 1977
  • North Queensland New State Party Conference, 1 September 1977
  • correspondence, 30 July 1980
  • “Towns in Search of a City” (Canberra”), 22 August 1984
  • letters to the editor of two newspapers, 25 May 1997 and 2 February 2002.

The papers are in chronological order. Scanning of the first of these papers is rather suboptimal but the other papers in the compilation are quite legible and provide a valuable insight into Dr Day’s deep insights into the issues.